Feeling Like a Kid Childhood and Children's Literature

Name: Feeling Like a Kid Childhood and Children's Literature
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ISBN: 9780801885174

ISBN-10: 0801885175

ISBN-13: 9780801885174

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jerry Griswold

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In this engaging and reflective essay, Jerry Griswold examines the unique qualities of childhood experience and their reappearance as frequent themes in children's literature. Surveying dozens of classic and popular works for the young -- from Heidi and The Wizard of Oz to Beatrix Potter to Harry Potter -- Griswold demonstrates how great children's writers succeed because of their uncanny ability to remember what it feels like to be a kid: playing under tables, shivering in bed on a scary night, arranging miniature worlds with toys, zooming around as caped superheroes, listening to dolls talk. No softheaded discussion of kids' "cute" convictions nor a developmentally-focused critique of…

Book details

List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 12/1/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Size: 5.50" wide x 7.00" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English




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