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Photograph courtesy of B.J. Novak.<\/p><\/div>\n

I\u2019ve noticed that a striking number of the best children\u2019s books have been written by people who had no children: Margaret Wise Brown (<\/span>Goodnight Moon<\/span><\/i>). H. A. and Margret Rey (<\/span>Curious George<\/span><\/i>). Maurice Sendak. Dr. Seuss.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have a theory as to why. If you don\u2019t have kids, you can only really experience the book from the child\u2019s point of view. Parents can\u2019t help but have all kinds of agendas when they read a book to their child. And who can blame them? As long as the child is a captive audience, why not teach them about something? Like patience, or the alphabet, or Who Simone Biles Is?<\/span><\/p>\n

The best children\u2019s books teach none of that. They aren\u2019t advertisements for anything\u2014not even the important things. They\u2019re an advertisement for reading itself; for the entertainment value of the world itself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Consider <\/span>Curious George<\/span><\/i>. The first book in the series is a full-scale assault on the senses of young children with a relentless barrage of every thrilling and dangerous thing that primally fascinates them. On successive pages in a single book, George is kidnapped (from a jungle); goes on a boat; calls 911; gets a visit from the entire fire department; then is arrested by the police for placing the call; goes to jail; then escapes jail\u2014by flying high above the city, carried by a bunch of balloons. These things happen in the same book, in a row. It is hard to imagine a responsible parent dreaming up such a sequence at bedtime, let alone a sequel (<\/span>Curious George Takes a Job<\/span><\/i>) in which George explores a hospital unsupervised and passes out in bliss from inhaling ether.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Children\u2019s books are not for teaching or moralizing or philosophizing. (That\u2019s what articles about children\u2019s books are for!)<\/span><\/p>\n

A<\/span>t the top of this particular list of children\u2019s authors is Esphyr Slobodkina (1908\u20132002). Slobodkina was an acclaimed modern artist in the early twentieth century turned illustrator of multiple children\u2019s books, including several books by Margaret Wise Brown. <\/span>Caps for Sale<\/span><\/i> (1940) is her masterpiece.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In <\/span>Caps for Sale<\/span><\/i>, a peddler walks through his village with seventeen caps atop his head, sixteen of them for sale. \u201cCaps for sale, caps for sale, fifty cents a cap!\u201d calls the peddler, all day, every day, as he walks through the village. On one slow sales day, the peddler takes a nap under the tree, and while he sleeps, a pack of sixteen mischievous monkeys descend to take all his caps and then return to the tree, wearing them. This inspires the start of a second musical refrain to kick in: \u201cYou monkeys, you! Give me back my caps!\u201d And the monkeys\u2019 response: \u201cTsk, Tsk, Tsk!\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A good children\u2019s book has a lot in common with a song. In <\/span>Caps for Sale<\/span><\/i>, the setup and journey of the story are really the verses that support these choruses. I loved the music of <\/span>Caps for Sale<\/span><\/i>, as sung by my mother when I was a kid, and as most of us do with most of our favorite songs, I memorized the lyrics without thinking too much about them.<\/span><\/p>\n

I reconsidered the book when two pretty good posthumous sequels were published a few years ago.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In <\/span>More Caps for Sale <\/span><\/i>(2018), we learn more about the peddler: we follow him back through the village to his home, where, in the most beautifully drawn frame of the series, we see the mustachioed bachelor sleeping snugly all alone in the center of a small bed, in the center of a simply decorated room, under a window facing a tree that we can only hope will soon fill up with monkeys. It wasn\u2019t until I saw that image that I realized what a lonely figure the peddler had been all along. His only interactions are with hat customers and, when even that fails, monkeys. And yet in the book he feels soulful, complete. He\u2019s always yelling at the monkeys, for the very understandable reason that they threaten his already threadbare livelihood. But he also needs the monkeys. In all of the books, the monkeys help out the peddler once they realize the gravity of the situation. The peddler never knows this or thanks them, but it\u2019s felt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After reading <\/span>More Caps for Sale<\/span><\/i>, I bought an extra copy of the book so I could carefully tear out that beautiful image of the peddler and hang it in my own bedroom. \u201cThat is \u2026\u00a0so sad,\u201d remarked the first person to see it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Were these the lyrics to this song I loved? Is <\/span>Caps for Sale<\/span><\/i> a sad story deep down\u2014a peddler living all alone, no friends, no family, whose only social interactions are with hat customers and monkeys?<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe he\u2019ll write a children\u2019s book.<\/span><\/p>\n

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B. J.\u00a0Novak\u00a0is a writer and actor. He is the author of\u00a0<\/em>The Book With No Pictures and\u00a0<\/em>One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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