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CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
Subtitle:
A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter
Book Category:
Fiction > General
Author:
Lerer, Seth
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN 10:
226473015
ISBN 13:
9780226473017
Price:
USD 19.00
Publication Year:
2008

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University of Chicago Press.

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Book Description

Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children's literature. Children's Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop's fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from Where the Wild Things Are to Harry Potter. The only single-volume work to capture the rich and diverse history of children's literature in its full panorama, this extraordinary book reveals why J. R. R. Tolkien, Dr. Seuss, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Beatrix Potter, and many others, despite their divergent styles and subject matter, have all resonated with generations of readers. Children's Literature is an exhilarating quest across centuries, continents, and genres to discover how, and why, we first fall in love with the written word. UK Price: 13 GBP

 
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Book Review and Awards

2008 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award,2008 National Book Critics Circle Award,2010 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism--Internal Bestseller