The ideal-image is just outside nature, for a child--something false.

In a picture, a child wants elemental recognition, and not correctness or expression, or least of all, what we call understanding.

The child distorts inevitably and dynamically.
But the dynamic abstraction is more than mental.

If a huge eye sits in the middle of the cheek, in a child's drawing, this shows that the deep dynamic consciousness of the eye, its relative exaggeration, is the life-truth, even if it is a scientific falsehood.
On the other hand, what on earth is the good of saying to a child, "The world is a flattened sphere, like an orange." It is simply pernicious.

You had much better say the world is a poached egg in a frying pan.