PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
William S. Burroughs was born on February 5, 1914 in St Louis. In work and in life Burroughs expressed a lifelong subversion of the morality, politics and economics of modern America. To escape those conditions, and in particular his treatment as a homosexual and a drug-user, Burroughs left his homeland in 1950, and soon after began writing. By the time of his death he was widely recognised as one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the twentieth century. His numerous books include Naked Lunch, Junky, Queer, Nova Express, Interzone, The Wild Boys, The Ticket That Exploded and The Soft Machine. After living in Mexico City, Tangier, Paris, and London, Burroughs finally returned to America in 1974. He died in 1997.
This is a fascinating book just for its pages of drawings taken from cross sections of children under five and from an unusual longitudinal study of the individual nursery children, made by head teacher Amerlia Fysh, which traces the delightful development from tadpole figures (a head with legs) to sophisticated characters with gender markers like hats and skirts. <br>-Montessori Education <br>
