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Children's Literature
- A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter
- Narrated by: Tony Craine
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Classics
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Publisher's Summary
Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children's literature. Children's Literature 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. The only single-volume work to capture the rich and diverse history of children's literature in its full panorama, this extraordinary book reveals why J. R. R. Tolkein, Dr. Seuss, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Beatrix Potter, and many others, despite their divergent styles and subject matter, have all resonated with generations of readers.
Children's Literature is an exhilarating quest across centuries, continents, and genres to discover how, and why, we first fall in love with the written word. The book is published by University of Chicago Press.
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Incredible! Highly recommend!
Excellent content and well narrated! I'd highly recommend this to anyone interested in Children's literature.
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- Aureo Lustosa Guerios Neto
- 05-17-19
amazing study
This is a learned and broad history of childrens literature. I was surprised by the breath of the analysis. It really runs as a history of literature.
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