Children's Literature
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academic
aesop
alice in wonderland
Author_Seth Lerer
beatrix potter
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childhood
coming of age
critique
cultural
culture
dr seuss
elementary
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fables
fantasy
genre
graduate school
growing up
handbook
historical
history
hogwarts
jrr tolkein
laura ingalls wilder
literary
mother goose
peter pan
popular
reading
research
scholarly
where the wild things are
wizard
young
youth
Product details
- ISBN 9780226473017
- Weight: 624g
- Dimensions: 16 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2009
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children's literature. Seth Lerer here 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.
Seth Lerer is dean of arts and humanities at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of many books, including Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language, and the editor of several collections, including The Yale Companion to Chaucer.
