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Boys And Girls Forever Children's Classics From Cinderella To Harry Potter

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Synopsis

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, and Salman Rushdie and his Haroun and the Sea of Stories, 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.

Book details

Author:
Alison Lurie
ISBN:
9781446434475
Related ISBNs:
9780099565284
Publisher:
Random House
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2018-08-17
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2004
Copyright by:
Alison Lurie 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Language Arts, Literature and Fiction