Beverly Akerman

This short story collection explores, as the title says, the meaning of children: both the meanings children ascribe to things, and they ways adults ascribe meaningfullness to children. In several of the stories, people are destoyed or redeemed through their relationships with children, or through the beliefs they developed in childhood.

The stories are well written -- sparse in style but deep in characterizations and in describing events that are, or with hindsight, become profound.

Well done!… (meer)