Charting the makings of the Western literary imagination, Lerer explores the iconic books--from ancient to contemporary--that have forged a lifelong love of literature in young readers during their formative years. 24 halftones.
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Charting the makings of the Western literary imagination, Lerer explores the iconic books--from ancient to contemporary--that have forged a lifelong love of literature in young readers during their formative years. 24 halftones.
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New. Seth Lerer's book about children's literature is a book about transformations--a reader's history and a charting of the literate imagination. Recalling an episode from The Little Prince/i> in which a young boy draws a boa constrictor digesting an elephant, Seth Lerer relates the response of grown-ups--'Why should anyone be frightened by a hat? '--to the contrasting ways one might read stories: 'On the one hand, we may look for what it seems to us; on the other, we may look for what its author meant it to be...what grown-ups find as ordinary items of experience may transform, in the child's imagination, into monstrous brilliance. ' Meanings can change, but they also endure. Lerer, a dean of arts and humanities at the University of California San Diego, matches the value of a book to the person (child or otherwise) encountering it: 'Each [book] becomes something of a litmus test for just what kind of reader we may be. ' His reader's history is full of list books (Goodnight Moon, Dr. Seuss), theater (Shakespeare, Little Women, Pinocchio, Anne of Green Gables), adventure (Where the Wild Things Are, Robinson Crusoe, Peter Pan), fairy tale and myth (Lord of the Rings, Grimm, His Dark Materials) and strange nonsense (think Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Shel Silverstein). The aesthetic and social/political lessons a pop-up book teach dovetail into a pragmatic discussion about children's literature as a kind of system whose 'value is determined out of the relationships among those who make, market, and read books. ' Lerer's chapter on girl's fiction is revelatory and his discussion of style and the child ('Keeping Things Straight') is a fascinating turn through all matter of self-expression--in language, dress, ethics, writing, and social etiquette (or lack thereof). We'd even go as far to call Lerer's work enchanting, a 'world of snakes...seductive things that live in undergrowths and that may take us whole. '
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