ABSTRACT
If he is fortunate in his teachers the primary child will hear stories two or three times a day. He will see his own jealous behavior mirrored by Frances’ and Peter’s reaction to their siblings in Russell Hoban’s A Baby Sister for Frances and Ezra Jack Keats’ Peter’s Chair. He will identify with the feelings of Max, who when scolded takes off in his imagination in his very private boat to Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. And somewhere in those early years he will discover that he can read, and then the magical world of literature will open before him. (Huck 1987:3)
