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Feeling like a kid : childhood and children's literature / Jerry Griswold.

By:

Griswold, Jerome

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TextPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.Description: 148 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cmISBN:

0801885175 (acid-free paper)
9780801885174 (acid-free paper)

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LOC classification:

PN 1009 .A1 G75 2006

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Contents:

Snugness -- Scariness -- Smallness -- Lightness -- Aliveness.

Review: "Through his insightful readings of dozens of classic and popular books for the young - from Beatrix Potter to Harry Potter, from Little Red Riding Hood to The Wind in the Willows to Goodnight Moon - noted scholar and columnist Jerry Griswold explores the unique qualities of childhood experience and the ways in which they reappear as frequent themes in children's literature. Great writers for children succeed, he demonstrates, because of their uncanny ability to remember and evoke the feeling of being a kid: hiding under tables, shivering in bed on a scary night, arranging miniature worlds of toys, flying around as caped superheroes, conversing with dolls over tea."--Jacket.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Storms Research Center Main Collection	PN 1009 .A1 G75 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	98640542

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-138) and index.

Snugness -- Scariness -- Smallness -- Lightness -- Aliveness.

"Through his insightful readings of dozens of classic and popular books for the young - from Beatrix Potter to Harry Potter, from Little Red Riding Hood to The Wind in the Willows to Goodnight Moon - noted scholar and columnist Jerry Griswold explores the unique qualities of childhood experience and the ways in which they reappear as frequent themes in children's literature. Great writers for children succeed, he demonstrates, because of their uncanny ability to remember and evoke the feeling of being a kid: hiding under tables, shivering in bed on a scary night, arranging miniature worlds of toys, flying around as caped superheroes, conversing with dolls over tea."--Jacket.

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