Books: Mysteries The Moral Life of Children by Robert Coles

by Robert Coles Atlantic Monthly Press; 302 pages; $19.95 THE POLITICAL LIFE OF CHILDREN by Robert Coles Atlantic Monthly Press; 341 pages; $19.95

If the world offered Oscars for interviewing children, Anna Freud would win for lifetime achievement, Art Linkletter would walk off with the trophy for most tots questioned, and Harvard Psychiatrist Robert Coles would be hands- down, standing-ovation winner of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. He might also win the Dino De Laurentiis plaque for epic production. To date, Coles has spent 28 years toting notebook, crayons and tape recorder around the world, attempting to glean moral and political insights from children, an effort that now runs to seven books and more than a million words.

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