petermorwood: su-whisterfield:lemonsharks:girlactionfigure: Link / Link “How would a chicken w
petermorwood: su-whisterfield:lemonsharks:girlactionfigure: Link / Link “How would a chicken wear pants?”- Richard Beale, 1784 @neil-gaiman @petermorwood children are children are children Here’s Onfim, a seven-year-old in 13th century Novgorod, writing the alphabet on birch-bark - at least up to the letter K, after which doodling a warrior on horseback (with his own name “Onfime” beside it) became more fun.Here’s a 16th century child’s addition to a 14th century manuscript. A Flemish educational treatise written in 1527 includes eight rules for keeping books in good condition. Rule 8 is “keep them out of reach of children” and the funny part is that it was added later, in the margin, for reasons it’s all too easy to guess at.Here’s one of the endpapers drawn by Ronald Searle for “The Compleet Molesworth” (1958). A decade or so later the inside covers of my school exercise books had more spaceships and pointy-nosed jet fighters, otherwise weren’t so very different. :->Children are children, and - given the chance, which they sometimes aren’t - behave like children. -- source link