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Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter

Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter

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Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter

by Seth Lerer

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0226473007
ISBN 13
9780226473000
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University Of Chicago Press. Used - Very Good. 2008. Hardcover. Cloth, d.j. Some shelf-wear. Else clean copy. Very Good.

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Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children's literature. Its history is inseparable from the history of childhood, as children are indelibly molded by the tales they hear and read—stories they will one day share with their own sons and daughters. 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. Seth Lerer here explores the iconic books, ancient and contemporary alike, that have forged a lifelong love of literature in young readers during their formative years. Along the way, Lerer also looks at the changing environments of family life and human growth, schooling and scholarship, and publishing and politics in which children found themselves changed by the books they read. This ambitious work appraises a broad trajectory of influences—including Shakespeare's plays, John Locke's theories of education, Darwin's On the Origin of Species, and the Puritan tradition—which have each shaped children's literature through the ages as well.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, Shel Silverstein, 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.

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Title
Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter
Author
Seth Lerer
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0226473007
ISBN 13
9780226473000
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Place of Publication
Chicago
This edition first published
May 15, 2008

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