Feeling like a kid, childhood and children's literature, Jerry Griswold
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Feeling like a kid, childhood and children's literature, Jerry Griswold
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-138) and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Feeling like a kid
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
64770814
Responsibility statement
Jerry Griswold
Review
"Through his insightful readings of dozens of classic and popular books for the young - from Beatrix Potter to Harry Potter, from Little Red Riding Hood to The Wind in the Willows to Goodnight Moon - noted scholar and columnist Jerry Griswold explores the unique qualities of childhood experience and the ways in which they reappear as frequent themes in children's literature. Great writers for children succeed, he demonstrates, because of their uncanny ability to remember and evoke the feeling of being a kid: hiding under tables, shivering in bed on a scary night, arranging miniature worlds of toys, flying around as caped superheroes, conversing with dolls over tea."--Jacket
Sub title
childhood and children's literature
Table of contents
Snugness -- Scariness -- Smallness -- Lightness -- Aliveness
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