Kiddie Lit: The Cultural Construction of Children's Literature in America

by Beverly Lyon Clark

Book Overview

Honor Book for the 2005 Book Award given by the Children's Literature Association

The popularity of the Harry Potter books among adults and the critical acclaim these young adult fantasies have received may seem like a novel literary phenomenon. In the nineteenth century, however, readers considered both Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as works of literature equally for children and adults; only later was the former relegated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801881706
• ISBN13: 9780801881701
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"