There was a time that this one might have ended up remixed and on the Terrifying Nixon-Era Children's books shelf, but I like Miguel's Mountain a bit too much to be so mean. It's a story of a group of free range kids' imaginations running wild with a makeshift play structure in a well-used city park. Author/photographer Bill Binzen was inspired by the kids he saw playing on the dirt mountain left by construction in in Tompkins Square Park in New York City. It's a nice little story about kids teaching the adults in their community an important lesson, and the adults taking the time to actually listen.
Friday, August 26, 2011
Miguel's Mountain by Bill Binzen (1968)
There was a time that this one might have ended up remixed and on the Terrifying Nixon-Era Children's books shelf, but I like Miguel's Mountain a bit too much to be so mean. It's a story of a group of free range kids' imaginations running wild with a makeshift play structure in a well-used city park. Author/photographer Bill Binzen was inspired by the kids he saw playing on the dirt mountain left by construction in in Tompkins Square Park in New York City. It's a nice little story about kids teaching the adults in their community an important lesson, and the adults taking the time to actually listen.