In November 2007, The Children's Museum of Indianapolis opened an exhibit called "The Power of Children: Making a Difference," which remains a sobering, featured exhibit and continues to develop, while it features White's bedroom and belongings alongside similar tributes to Anne Frank and Ruby Bridges.
One sapling is destined for the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, which features Miss Frank's story in its Power of Children gallery.
He recognized early the commercial power of children, and a national desire to be forever young (or forever infantilized).
She is shortlisted for The Forgotten Waltz, which explores adultery and the power of children in a family.
Its gallery, "The Power of Children: Making a Difference," tells the stories of Anne Frank, Ryan White and Ruby Bridges, one of the first children to integrate the New Orleans school system in 1960.
Alison Lurie, in her study of children's literature, "Don't Tell the Grown-Ups" (Little, Brown; $14), stresses the subversive power of children's books; Jules Feiffer's "I Lost My Bear" (Morrow; $16) is one of the rare books to feature sibling quarrels.
"God's children... bound to be adored," as Eudora Welty described Salinger's young in a rapturous New York Times review of "Nine Stories" (which included "Uncle Wiggily"), did not just reflect but may have helped shape the new place and power of children in postwar America.
And therein lies the hidden power of children – because whether you're a woman from the east or a man from the west, no matter what your religion, political views or anything else – we can agree that our children are the most innocent and precious of all gifts.
The Indianapolis museum, in its "Power of Children" exhibition, already honors Anne as well as Ryan White, the hemophiliac Indiana teenager expelled from school for being infected with H.I.V., and Ruby Bridges, perhaps the first black child to integrate a white elementary school in the segregated South.
