Enchanted hunters : the power of stories in childhood /

Tatar challenges the assumptions we make about childhood reading. By exploring how beauty and horror operate in children's literature, she examines how and what children read, showing how literature transports and transforms children with its intoxicating, captivating and occasionally terrifyin...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Tatar, Maria, 1945-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : W. W. Norton & Co., [2009]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Children's stories > History and criticism. Children's stories > Appreciation. Children's stories > Psychological aspects. Children > Books and reading. Literature and morals.