Child is Us

I am at a racquetball tournament this weekend. The lady at the front desk was really funny. She was probably in her forties, but she acted like a young girl. The funniest thing she said was, "They have this Italian restaurant there and it is, like, so yum." It made me laugh. It makes me wonder how much adults want to be like children. How often do adults try to make themselves look younger, sound cool, or hang out with a younger crowd? I wonder how many of these people really love children's literature. It's not just literature for children because there is a child in each and every one of us. That sounds so cliche but it is so true. (Cliches have to come from somewhere don't they...) We know that A Child's Garden of Verses is a collection of poems written by an adult but from a child's perspective. They reminisce about life as a child, the good times. Everyone wants to always be a kid. It's fun, imaginative, innocent. Everything in the world is playtime.