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• Title:Children's literature : a reader's history, from Aesop to Harry Potter / Seth Lerer.
  
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• Author/Creator:Lerer, Seth, 1955-
  
• Published/Created:Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PN1009.A1 L44 2008
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: PN1009.A1 L44 2008
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Children's literature--History and criticism.
  
• Description:ix, 385 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780226473000 (hbk.)
  0226473007 (hbk.)
  
• Contents:Introduction. Toward a New History of Children's Literature
  1. Speak, Child: Children's Literature in Classical Antiquity
  2. Ingenuity and Authority: Aesop's Fables and Their Afterlives
  3. Court, Commerce, and Cloister: The Literatures of Medieval Childhood
  4. From Alphabet to Elegy: The Puritan Impact on Children's Literature
  5. Playthings of the Mind: John Locke and Children's Literature
  6. Canoes and Cannibals: Robinson Crusoe and Its Legacies
  7. From Islands to Empires: Storytelling for a Boy's World
  8. On Beyond Darwin: From Kingsley to Seuss
  9. Ill-Tempered and Queer: Sense and Nonsense, from Victorian to Modern
  10. Straw into Gold: Fairy-Tale Philology
  11. Theaters of Girlhood: Domesticity, Desire, and Performance in Female Fiction
  12. Pan in the Garden: The Edwardian Turn in Children's Literature
  13. Good Feeling: Prizes, Libraries, and the Institutions of American Children's Literature
  14. Keeping Things Straight: Style and the Child
  15. Tap Your Pencil on the Paper: Children's Literature in an Ironic Age
  Epilogue: Children's Literature and the History of the Book.