Minders of Make-Believe Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature

Name: Minders of Make-Believe Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature
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ISBN: 9780395674079

ISBN-10: 0395674077

ISBN-13: 9780395674079

Edition: 2008

Authors: Leonard S. Marcus

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An animated first-time history of the visionaries-editors, illustrators, and others-whose books have transformed American childhood and American culture. What should children read? As preeminent childrens literature authority Leonard S. Marcus shows incisively, thats the three-hundred-year-old question that created a rambunctious childrens book publishing scene in colonial times. And its the urgent issue that went on to fuel the transformation of twentieth-century childrens book publishing from genteel backwater to big business. Marcus delivers a provocative look at the fierce turf wars fought among the pioneering editors, progressive educators, and librarians-most of them…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 5/7/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English




Providence and Purpose in Colonial America and the Young Republic



Wonder in the Wake of War: Publishing for Children from the Gilded Age to the Dawn of the New Century



Innocence Lost and Found: The 1920s



Sisters in Crisis and in Conflict: The 1930s



World War and Mass Market: The 1940s



Fun and Fear: The 1950s



Shaken and Stirred: The 1960s



Change and More Change: The 1970s



Suits and Wizards at the Millennium's Gate


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index