The Imagination of the Preschool Child: The Experience of Logical-Psychological Analysis

Abstract

I took my rough drafts of drawings out of my pocket. The little prince looked them over, and laughed as he said: “Your baobabs—they look a little like cabbages.” “Oh!” I had been so proud of my baobabs!” “Your fox— his ears look a little like horns; and they are too long.” And he laughed again. “You are not fair, little prince,” I said. “I don’t know how to draw anything except boa constrictors from the outside and boa constrictors from the inside.” “Oh, that will be all right,” he said, “children understand.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry [not cited in the original.–Ed.]