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100 1 _aHandy, Bruce,
245 1 0 _aWild things :
_bthe joy of reading children's literature as an adult /
_cBruce Handy.
246 1 _iPrepublication title:
_aGoodnight nobody : the un-childish pleasures of reading great children's books
250 _aFirst Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bSimon & Schuster,
_c2017.
264 4 _c©2017
300 _axxiii, 307 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c22 cm
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 279-288) and index.
505 0 _aNew eyes, new ears: Margaret Wise Brown and Goodnight Moon -- Runaways: Family drama in picture books ... and well beyond -- Once upon a time and in and out of weeks: Fairy tales and Maurice Sendak -- Why a duck? The uses of talking animals from Aesop to Beatrix Potter to Olivia the Pig -- You have to know how: Dr. Seuss vs. Dick and Jane -- Kids being kids: Ramona Quimby, American pest -- God and man in Narnia -- One nation: Washington's cherry tree, Rosa Park's bus, and Oz -- Going on seventeen (or not): Little Women, little houses, and Peter Pans -- The end: Dead pets, dead grandparents, and the glory of everything.
520 _aBruce Handy revisits the classics of every American childhood, from fairy tales to The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and explores the back stories of their creators, using context and biography to understand how some of the most creative authors and illustrators of their times created their often deeply personal masterpieces. Along the way, Handy learns what The Cat in the Hat says about anarchy and absentee parenting, which themes are shared by The Runaway Bunny and Portnoy's Complaint, and why Ramona Quimby is as true an American icon as Tom Sawyer or Jay Gatsby.
650 0 _aChildren's literature
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aBooks and reading.
655 7 _aCriticism, interpretation, etc.
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