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

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text Children's literature : a reader's history, from Aesop to Harry Potter

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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 icon... Read more
Contents
Toward a new history of children's literature -- Speak, child: children's literature in classical antiquity -- Ingenuity and authority: Aesop's fables and their afterlives -- Court, commerce, and cloister: the literatures of medieval childhood -- ... Read more
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ix, 385 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher
University of Chicago Press 2008

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 809.89282 LER in Adult Non-fiction Available

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