TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lerer,Seth
ED  - University of Chicago.
TI  - Children's literature: a reader's history, from Aesop to Harry Potter 
SN  - 9780226473017
AV  - PN1009.A1 L44 2008
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Chicago, Ill.
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Children's literature
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - Originally published: 2008; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : toward a new history of children's literature; -- Speak, child : children's literature in classical antiquity; -- Ingenuity and authority : Aesop's fables and their afterlives; -- Court, commerce, and cloister : the literatures of medieval childhood; -- From alphabet to elegy : the Puritan impact on children's literature; -- Playthings of the mind : John Locke and children's literature; -- Canoes and cannibals : Robinson Crusoe and its legacies; -- From islands to empires : storytelling for a boy's world; -- On beyond Darwin : from Kingsley to Seuss; -- Ill-tempered and queer : sense and nonsense, from Victorian to modern; -- Straw into gold : fairy-tale philology; -- Theaters of girlhood : domesticity, desire, and performance in female fiction; -- Pan in the garden : the Edwardian turn in children's literature; -- Good feeling : prizes, libraries, and the institutions of American children's literature; -- Keeping things straight : style and the child; -- Tap your pencil on the paper : children's literature in an ironic age; -- Epilogue : children's literature and the history of the book
ER  -