| Publication |
London, Chatto & Windus, 2003.
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| Description |
220pRed Spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
"Are some of the world's most talented writers of children's books essentially children themselves? In this engaging series of essays, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alison Lurie considers this theory, exploring children's classics from many eras and relating them to the authors who wrote them, including Louisa May Alcott, creator of Little Women, Dr. Seuss and J.K. Rowling. In analysing these and many other authors, Alison Lurie shows how these gifted writers have used children's literature to transfigure sorrow, nostalgia, and the struggles of their own experience."
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| Contents |
The Underduckling : Hans Christian Anderson
Little Women and Big Girls : Louisa May Alcott
The Oddness of Oz
Is there anybody there? Walter De La Mare's Solitary Child
John Masefield's Boxes of Delight
Moomintroll and his Friends
Dr.Seuss Comes Back
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
The Perils ofHarry Potter
What Fairy Tales Tell Us
Boys and Girls Come Out to Play : Children's Games
Poetry By and For Children
Louder than words : Children's Book Illustrations
Enchanted Forests and Secret Gardens : Nature in Children's Literature
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| Standard Number |
0701175192 Hb.
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