Sentence examples for creatures children from inspiring English sources

Pretending to be other creatures, children practise metaphor and empathy alike.

Animals morph into more unaccustomed creatures; children drink poison and descend to the netherworld; a pair of swallowed birds preen in the stomach of a smug cat.

Kirsty was always fascinated by children, who struck her as less predictable than adults and, often, as having more interesting things to say: raw, formative creatures, children – like some promising narrative lead – might be shaped into story.

You shouldn't underestimate the child as a creature; children believe in things but not in gods.

And as a keen observer of the natural world he fixed his scientific eye on these most interesting of creatures: his children.

One can forget, reading the critics, that the books are, first and last, meant to be funny, and that Babar is an elephant who talks and walks: the story is happening to creatures that children know do not ride elevators, wear suits, or build buildings.

Loki fathered a menagerie of nightmarish creatures - his children include Fenrir, the monstrous wolf that is destined to devour Odin during the apocalyptic battle of Ragnarok, Hel, the half-rotting goddess of the Underworld, and Jormungand, the Midgard Serpent, which is long enough to wrap itself around the world and bite its own tail.

Wolf, a German-born artist who has long called Hong Kong his home, examines the bizarre production sites that manufacture, in massive quantities, the cute creatures that children around the globe grow to love.

But then it was done, an odd little fantasy poem about an imaginary creature for children.

The Soccer Mom, smug in her Volvo and oversized suburban house, was a wonderful creature, juggling children, job and household chores, and still having time to pronounce on the great affairs of the day.

In Nora Ephron's new movie, "Julie & Julia," Streep plays Julia Child — the looming emissary of French cooking, who, upon arriving for the first time at Le Havre, as a "six-foot-two-inch, thirty-six-year-old, rather loud and unserious Californian," feared that France was a nation "where the women were all dainty, exquisitely coiffed, nasty little creatures," as Child wrote in her memoir.