Don't Tell the Grown-Ups
Subtitle: The Subversive Power of Children's Literature
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: July 20, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780316246255
Subjects: Books & Reading; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; General; Fiction / General; Juvenile Literature; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Books and reading; Children; Children's literature, English; History and criticism; Social norms in literature
Description: This collection of essays probes the ways in which classic children's literature tends to undermine, rather than support, respectable adult values.