TY  - BOOK
AU  - Griswold,Jerome
ED  - Johns Hopkins University.
TI  - Feeling like a kid: childhood and children's literature 
SN  - 0801885175
AV  - PN1009.A1 G75 2006
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Children's literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Themes, motives
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-138) and index; Contents; Introduction; Chapter One. Snugness; Chapter Two. Scariness; Chapter Three. Smallness; Chapter Four. Lightness; Chapter Five. Aliveness; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Index
N2  - "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." --Book Jacket
ER  -