Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter

Seth Lerer

ISBN 10: 0226473007 ISBN 13: 9780226473000

Published by University Of Chicago Press, 2008

Language: English

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Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter

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University Of Chicago Press

Publication Date

2008

Language

English

ISBN 10

0226473007

ISBN 13

9780226473000

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Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Used - Very Good

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Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children's literature. Seth Lerer here 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". The only single-volume work to capture the rich and diverse history of children's literature in its full panorama, this extraordinary book reveals why J. R. R. Tolkien, Dr. Seuss, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Beatrix Potter, and many others, despite their divergent styles and subject matter, have all resonated with generations of readers. "Children's Literature" is an exhilarating quest across centuries, continents, and genres to discover how, and why, we first fall in love with the written word.

About the Author

Seth Lerer is dean of arts and humanities at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of many books, including Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language, and the editor of several collections, including The Yale Companion to Chaucer.

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