Salinger and children's literature

Hello all,
 
I've just had a half formed thought about the way that Salinger refers to children's stories in his writing. Two of the 'Nine Stories' refer back to children's stories and seem to use them as points of human contact. In 'Bananafish' Seymour talks with Sybil about 'Little Black Sambo', while Walt's 'poor old Uncle Wiggly' is a reference to another popular 1950s storybook character. I don't recall, offhand, if there are other references to children's books (there may be some I haven't picked up on - it's only quite recently I realised about the Uncle Wiggly reference), and I'm the wrong nationality and the wrong generation to be familiar with these books, but it strikes me that this could be an interesting line of enquiry. Anyone know anything / have any ideas?
 
Lucy-Ruth (still lurking around)
 
 

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Received on Wed Oct 1 07:09:08 2003