Bibliograph

Children's literature, a reader's history, from Aesop to Harry Potter, Seth Lerer

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Children's literature, a reader's history, from Aesop to Harry Potter, Seth Lerer

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-375) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Children's literature

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

544825

Responsibility statement

Seth Lerer

Sub title

a reader's history, from Aesop to Harry Potter

Summary

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.--From publisher description

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