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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W. W. Norton & Co.,
[2009]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | 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 terrifying energy. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-284) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780393066012 (hardcover) 0393066010 (hardcover) |