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Boys and Girls Forever: Children's Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter Paperback - 2003

by Alison Lurie

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lurie explores children's classics from many eras and relates them to the authors who wrote them--from "Little Women" author Louisa May Alcott to Salman Rushie--and shows how these gifted writers used children's literature to transfigure the struggles of their own experiences.


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Are some of the world's most talented children's book authors essentially children themselves? In this engaging series of essays, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alison Lurie considers this theory, exploring children's classics from many eras and relating them to the authors who wrote them, including Little Women author Louisa May Alcott and Wizard of Oz author Frank Baum, as well as Dr. Seuss and Salman Rushdie. Analyzing these and many others, Lurie shows how these gifted writers have used children's literature to transfigure sorrow, nostalgia, and the struggles of their own experiences.

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Are some of the world's most talented children's book authors essentially children themselves? In this engaging series of essays, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alison Lurie considers this theory, exploring children's classics from many eras and relating them to the authors who wrote them, including Little Women author Louisa May Alcott and Wizard of Oz author Frank Baum, as well as Dr. Seuss and Salman Rushdie. Analyzing these and many others, Lurie shows how these gifted writers have used children's literature to transfigure sorrow, nostalgia, and the struggles of their own experiences.

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  • Title Boys and Girls Forever: Children's Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter
  • Author Alison Lurie
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Paperback
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, New York
  • Date 2003
  • ISBN 9780142002520 / 0142002526
  • Weight 0.47 lbs (0.21 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.02 x 5.33 x 0.54 in (20.37 x 13.54 x 1.37 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress subjects Children's stories, English - History and, Children's stories, American - History and
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002030815
  • Dewey Decimal Code 820.992

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Citations

  • Booklist, 11/15/2002, Page 562
  • New York Review of Books, 03/27/2003, Page 4
  • Publishers Weekly, 12/02/2002, Page 45
  • Women's Review of Books, 04/01/2003, Page 8

About the author

Alison Lurie is the author of many highly praised novels, including The War Between the Tates, The Truth About Lorin Jones (Prix Femina Etranger), and Foreign Affairs (Pulitzer Prize for fiction). Her most recent book was Familiar Spirits. She teaches writing, folklore, and literature at Cornell University.
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