num_pages: 396
description: Ever since children have learned to read there has been childrens literature. Childrens Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesops 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 childrens literature in its full panorama this extraordinary book reveals why J. R. R. Tolkien Dr. Seuss Laura Ingalls Wilder Beatrix Potter and many others despite their divergent styles and subject matter have all resonated with generations of readers. Childrens Literature is an exhilarating quest across centuries continents and genres to discover how and why we first fall in love with the written word.
language: English
title: Children's Literature: A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter
publisher: University of Chicago Press