Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood

by Maria Tatar

Book Overview

Ever wondered why little children love listening to stories, why older ones get lost in certain books? In this enthralling work, Maria Tatar challenges many of our assumptions about childhood reading. Much as our culture pays lip service to the importance of literature, we rarely examine the creative and cognitive benefits of reading from infancy through adolescence. By exploring how beauty and horror operated in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393066010
• ISBN13: 9780393066012
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.3"