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Boys and girls forever : children's classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter / Alison Lurie.
Van Pelt Library PR830.C513 L87 2003
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lurie, Alison.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875--Criticism and interpretation.
- Andersen, H. C.
- Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875.
- Children's stories, English--History and criticism.
- Children's stories, English.
- Children's stories, American--History and criticism.
- Children's stories, American.
- Children--Books and reading.
- Children.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 219 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Books, 2003.
- Summary:
- Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lurie explores childrenUs classics from many eras and relates them to the authors who wrote them--from "Little Women" author Louisa May Alcott to Salman Rushie--and shows how these gifted writers used childrenUs literature to transfigure the struggles of their own experiences.
- Contents:
- The underduckling : Hans Christian Andersen
- Little women and big girls : Louisa May Alcott
- The oddness of Oz
- Is there anybody there? : Walter de la Mare's solitary child
- John Masefield's boxes of delight
- Moomintroll and his friends
- Dr. Seuss comes back
- Haroun and the sea of stories
- The perils of Harry Potter
- What fairy tales tell us
- Boys and girls come out to play : children's games
- Poetry by and for children
- Louder than words : children's book illustrations
- Enchanted forest and secret gardens : nature in children's literature.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-208) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0142002526
- OCLC:
- 50477260
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