Tatar, Maria,  1945- <br/><br/>
Enchanted hunters :  the power of stories in childhood / 
Maria Tatar. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  W. W. Norton,  2009. 
 - viii, 296 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-284) and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: Comfort zones or conflict zones -- Reading them to sleep : storytelling and the invention of bedtime reading -- Beauty, horror, and ignition power : can books change us -- Now I lay me down to sleep : brushes with death -- The magic art of the great humbug : how to do things with words -- Theaters for the imagination : what words can do to you. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780393066012 (hardcover) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008053415 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Children's stories--History and criticism.<br/>Children's stories--Appreciation.<br/>Children's stories--Psychological aspects.<br/>Children--Books and reading.<br/>Literature and morals.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN1009.A1  / T37 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>809/.89282