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9780316246255

Don't Tell the Grown-Ups The Subversive Power of Children's Literature

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  • ISBN13:

    9780316246255

  • ISBN10:

    0316246255

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-07-20
  • Publisher: Back Bay Books
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Summary

In sixteen spirited essays, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alison Lurie, who is also one of our wittiest and most astute cultural commentators, explores the world of children's literature--from Lewis Carroll to Dr. Seuss, Mark Twain to Beatrix Potter--and shows that the best-loved children's books tend to challenge rather than uphold respectable adult values.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
1 Subversive Children's Literature
3(13)
2 Folktale Liberation
16(13)
3 Fairy Tale Fiction: Fitzgerald to Updike
29(12)
4 Braking for Elves: Fashionable Folklore for Adults
41(10)
5 The Child Who Followed the Piper:
51(16)
Kate Greenaway
6 Tales of Terror:
67(7)
Mrs. Clifford
7 Ford Madox Ford's Fairy Tales
74(16)
8 Animal Liberation:
90(9)
Beatrix Potter
9 Modern Magic:
99(19)
E. Nesbit
10 The Boy Who Couldn't Grow Up:
118(18)
James Barrie
11 Happy Endings:
136(8)
Frances Hodgson Burnett
12 Back to Pooh Corner:
144(12)
A. A. Milne
13 Heroes for Our Time:
156(13)
J.R.R. Tolkien
T. H. White
14 The Power of Smokey:
169(9)
Richard Adams
15 Games of Dark:
178(11)
William Mayne
16 The Folklore of Childhood
189(16)
Notes 205(14)
Bibliography 219(8)
Index 227

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