Sticks and stones
Subtitle: the troublesome success of children's literature from Slovenly Peter to Harry Potter
By: Jack Zipes
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780415938808
Copyright date: 2001
Subjects: Littérature pour la jeunesse; History and criticism; Children's literature; Histoire et critique; Children's literature, American; Kinderliteratur; Littérature pour la jeunesse américaine; Appréciation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-203) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface -- -- ch. 1.; title: The cultural homogenization of American children -- -- ch. 2.; title: Do you know what we are doing to your books? -- -- ch. 3.; title: Why children's literature does not exist -- -- ch. 4.; title: Thevalue of evaluating the value of children's literature -- -- ch. 5.; title: Wanda Gág's americanization of the Grimm's fairy tales -- -- ch. 6.; title: The contamination of the fairy tale -- -- ch. 7.; title: The wisdom and folly of storytelling -- -- ch. 8.; title: The perverse delight of Shockheaded Peter -- -- ch. 9.; title: The phenomenon of Harry Potter, or why all the talk?