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

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Charting the makings of the Western literary imagination! Lerer explores the iconic books--from ancient to contemporary--that have forged a lifelong love of literature in young readers during their formative years. 24 halftones. Zusammenfassung Ever since children have learned to read! there has been children's literature. This book 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".

Product details

• Authors: Professor Seth Lerer, Seth Lerer
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2008
• EAN: 9780226473000
• ISBN: 978-0-226-47300-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 234 mm x 29 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature