Boys And Girls Forever

by Alison Lurie

  12. Ibid., p. 53.

  13. Ibid., p. 86.

  14. Ibid., pp. 82–83.

  15. Milne, House at Pooh Corner, pp. 170–72.

  16. Burnett, The Secret Garden, p. 52.

  17. Ibid., p. 99.

  18. Ibid., p. 287.

  19. Ibid., p. 310.

  20. Thwaite, Waiting for the Party, pp. 75–76.

  21. White, Charlotte’s Web, p. 176.

  THE GOOD BAD BOY

  1. Collodi, Carlo, The Adventures of Pinocchio, Translated with an introductory Essay and Notes by Nicholoas J. Perella, Berkeley, University of California Press, p. 109.

  2. Ibid., p. 109.

  3. Ibid., p. 349.

  4. Ibid., p. 389.

  5. Technically, of course, Pinocchio is a marionette, since he is constructed to be hung from strings rather than, like Punch and Judy, to fit over a human hand.

  6. In the Disney film, the Fairy merely wears blue, otherwise she is a typical Disney cartoon blonde.

  7. Collodi, op. cit., p. 83.

  8. Ibid., p. 460.

  9. Lucas, Ann Lawson. Introduction to The Adventures of Pinocchio, New York 1996.

  10. Lois Kuznets, When Toys Come Alive, New Haven, Yale University Press, p. 68.

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