Sentence examples for conventional children from inspiring English sources
He thought that such conventional children were strange.
Jones's distinctive scepticism about conventional children's fiction must have started to set in early.
Jim Henson, too, strove to challenge the sensibilities of those who were used to more conventional children's programming.
The author of more than 70 titles, he championed robust storytelling free of the scars of class, gender and race bias that bedevilled conventional children's literature at the time.
"The Gruffalo," from Britain, is a fairly conventional children's story (based on a popular picture book) voiced by enough important British actors to fill up a "Harry Potter" movie.
The results of two secret test screenings held in the New York area, in April, were said to be favorable, but the studio requested that Anderson make some changes to align the film with more conventional children's movies — getting rid of the cigarettes (smoked by villains), for instance, and what Anderson calls "occasional blood, but nothing horrible".
Geisel and his wife, who under her maiden name of Helen Palmer is herself the author of several successful but more or less conventional children's books — to name a few, "Tommy's Wonderful Rides," "Johnny's Machines," "Bobby and His Airplane," and "Donald Duck Sees South America" — are childless.
He grew up in Muswell Hill in north London, a conventional child of the suburban 50s.
I was, as I've mentioned, a pathologically obedient and conventional child, and of course I knew that I should call an ambulance.
Twenty years after he had first overturned conventional child-rearing wisdom, Spock was once again coming under fire, this time for helping to create a generation of self-centred narcissists, young people who lived only for themselves.
Ms. Jones is inclined to question most everything, from the chicken fingers she is served at lunch ("not what I expected," she remarked with a faint curl of her lip) to conventional child-rearing practices.
