Wild things : the joy of reading children's literature as an adult
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- ISBN: 9781451609950
- ISBN: 1451609957
- ISBN: 9781501150425
- ISBN: 9781451609967
- ISBN: 1451609965
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xxiii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm - Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-288) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | New eyes, new ears: Margaret Wise Brown and Goodnight Moon -- Runaways: Family drama in picture books ... and well beyond -- Once upon a time and in and out of weeks: Fairy tales and Maurice Sendak -- Why a duck? The uses of talking animals from Aesop to Beatrix Potter to Olivia the Pig -- You have to know how: Dr. Seuss vs. Dick and Jane -- Kids being kids: Ramona Quimby, American pest -- God and man in Narnia -- One nation: Washington's cherry tree, Rosa Park's bus, and Oz -- Going on seventeen (or not): Little Women, little houses, and Peter Pans -- The end: Dead pets, dead grandparents, and the glory of everything. |
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