Sticks and Stones: The Troublesome Success of Children's Literature from Slovenly Peter to Harry Potter - Softcover

Zipes, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415938805 ISBN 13: 9780415938808

Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

Have children ever really had a literature of their own? In Sticks and Stones Jack Zipes, translator of the Grimm tales, teacher, storyteller and scholar, explores children's literature, from the grisly moralism of Slovenly Peter to the hugely successful Harry Potter books, and argues that despite common assumptions about children's books, our current investment in children is paradoxically curtailing their freedom and creativity. Sticks and Stones is a forthright and engaging book by someone who cares deeply about what and how children read.

About this title

Product Description:

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Review:

"If [Zipes'] scholarship could be spread over several curricule vitae, the breadth and quality of it could certainly bring tenure to three or four scholars."
-Donald R. Hettinga

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0415938805
• ISBN 13: 9780415938808
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 228