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Jens Sigsgaard

Jens Sigsgaard was a Danish psychologist and writer. He was born on August 14th 1910. Jens was related to Erik Sigsgaard, a scientist and politic. Jens also had a brother Thomas.

Besides being a writer Jens was a well known children’s psychologist and worked as a vice-president for an international children’s preschool education organization.

Since he had a good knowledge about kids Jens decided to put it into use and he wrote several children’s book and amongst them there is the legendary story about an English hero Robin Hood. All of the books he wrote were translated to a minimum of 20 languages.

His most famous work is ‘’Paul Alone in the World’’, written in 1942. The story was inspired with a psychological study in which thousands of children were interviewed about their deepest whishes. The book has a movie adaption. Jens died on January 27th 1991.

Paul is Alone in the World

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''Paul is alone in the world'' is clearly a work of a child's psychologist because throughout the book we can see that it was written by somebody familiar with children's desires. There isn't a kid in this world that didn't want to peak into the grownup's world for just a brief second. The story has […]

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