Feeling Like a Kid: Childhood and Children's Literature

Feeling Like a Kid: Childhood and Children's Literature

In this engaging and reflective essay, Jerry Griswold examines the unique qualities of childhood experience and their reappearance as frequent themes in childrenâ€™s literature. Surveying dozens of classic and popular works for the youngâ€•from Heidi and The Wizard of Oz to Beatrix Potter and Harry Potterâ€•Griswold demonstrates how great children's writers succeed because of their uncanny ability to remember what it feels like to be a kid: playing under tables, shivering in bed on a scary night, arranging miniature worlds with toys, zooming around as caped superheroes, listening to dolls talk. No softheaded discussion of kidsâ€™ "cute" convictions nor a developmentally-focused critique of their "immature" beliefs, Feeling Like a Kid boldly and honestly identifies the ways in which the young think and see the world in a manner different from that of adults. Written by a leading scholar, prize-winning author, and frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times, this extensively illustrated book will fascinate general readers as well as all those who study childhood and children's literature.

Country	USA
Brand	Johns Hopkins University Press
Manufacturer	Johns Hopkins University Press
Binding	Hardcover
PartNumber	26 colour illustrations
Height	7
Length	5.5
Weight	0.80027801106
Width	0.68
NumberOfItems	1
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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