Children's Literature: A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter

by Seth Lerer

Book Overview

Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children's literature. Children's Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop's fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from Where the Wild Things Are to Harry Potter.

The only single-volume work to capture the rich and diverse history of children's literature in its full panorama, this extraordinary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226473007
• ISBN13: 9780226473000
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.0"