Making Americans : children's literature from 1930 to 1960 / Gary D. Schmidt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schmidt, Gary D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's literature.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

American children need books that draw on their own history and circumstances, not just the classic European fairy tales. They need books that enlist them in the great democratic experiment that is the United States. These were the beliefs of many of the authors, illustrators, editors, librarians, and teachers who expanded and transformed children's book publishing between the 1930's and the 1960's. Although some later critics have argued that the books published in this era offered a vision of a safe, secure, simple world without injustice or unhappy endings, Gary D. Schmidt shows

Contents:

Imagining American democracy: self-reliance and social cooperation

James Daugherty: the democracy of the American pioneer

Defining American democracy: normalizing inclusion

The "Childhood of Famous Americans" series: challenges to mythic narratives

Adapting American democracy: responding to the urgencies of war

Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire: America as the land of opportunity

Globalizing American democracy: exporting the American heritage

Virginia Lee Burton and Robert McCloskey: (in)security in America.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 26, 2013).

ISBN:

9781609382216

1609382218

OCLC:

862077756