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Enchanted Hunters

By Maria Tatar

Enchanted Hunters

By Maria Tatar

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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, Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels, and many other narratives, Tatar provides a delightful work for parents, teachers, and general readers, not just examining how and what children read but also showing through vivid examples how literature transports and transforms children with its intoxicating, captivating, and occasionally terrifying energy. In the tradition of Bruno Bettelheim's landmark The Uses of Enchantment, Tatar's book is not only a compelling journey into the world of childhood but a trip back for adult readers as well.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
306
Release Date:
2009-04-20
Publication Date:
2009-04-01
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0393066010
ISBN13:
9780393066012
Weight:
681 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
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