Cognitive psychologist Allison Gopnik suggests children see the world more clearly than adults, albeit without structure:
This heightened state of absorption is emblematic of what Gopnik calls “the evolutionary division of labor between children and adults.” In this collaboration, the child’s protracted period of immaturity is indulged because it allows him to perform uninhibitedly the sorts of experiments that will eventually enable the more plodding and deliberate adult to alter—or at least to manipulate—the reality of his world.
Behold: a comic book written by a five year-old but illustrated by a 29 year-old; via MetaFilter.
I could be wrong but isn’t this kind of collaboration common in the history of fables and the like?