Enchanted hunters
Subtitle: the power of stories in childhood
By: Maria Tatar.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W. W. Norton; W. W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780393066012
Subjects: Children's stories -- History and criticism; Children's stories -- Appreciation; Children's stories -- Psychological aspects; Children -- Books and reading; Literature and morals
Description: Tatar challenges the assumptions we make about childhood reading. By exploring how beauty and horror operate in children's literature, she examines how and what children read, showing how literature transports and transforms children with its intoxicating, captivating and occasionally terrifying energy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Comfort zones or conflict zones; title: Reading them to sleep : storytelling and the invention of bedtime reading; title: Beauty, horror, and ignition power : can books change us; title: Now I lay me down to sleep : brushes with death; title: The magic art of the great humbug : how to do things with words; title: Theaters for the imagination : what words can do to you.