About this title: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lurie explores children's classics from many eras and relates them to the authors who wrote them--from "Little Women" author Louisa May Alcott to Salman Rushie--and shows how these gifted writers used children's literature to transfigure the struggles of their own experiences.
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. FINE/Trade pb. Essays about writers of children's books by the Pullitizer winner. In excellent, straight, bright, clean condition. A LANDS AWAY SPECIAL. 2003, Penguin trade paperback, 1st printing, 219 pp. read more
Description: Very good. First edition published in 2003 by Penguin, a nice 219-page paperback (as pictured), gently (if ever) read, this is a very good copy. (CC) read more
Binding: book Softcover
Publisher: Penguin USA
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780142002520ISBN:0142002526
Description: Brand New. Brand new. Never read or owned. May have a remainder mark. 256 pages. 8.00 x 5.50 x 0.50 in. 7.2 oz. The well-known essayist presents a collection of her writings on the subject of children's literature. Included are essays on Dr. Seuss, J. K. Rowling, and the social satire of L. Frank Baum's OZ books. Alison Lurie's is the best book on the classics of the genre I have ever read...--New York Review of Books-John Bayley (03/27/2003)--[T]hroughout this volume Lurie demonstrates the ... read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780701175191ISBN:0701175192
Description: Nr. Fine/Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall 0701175192 Small nick in the bottom of the dust jacket. It often seems that the most gifted authors of books for children are not like other writers: instead, in some essential way, they are children themselves. E. Nesbit devoted weeks to building a toy town out of kitchenware. James Barrie spent his holidays playing pirates and Indians with the four Davies boys. Laurent deBrunhoff, who continued his father's Babar series, is still climbing trees at ... read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780142002520ISBN:0142002526
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by author. SIGNED bt Alison Lurie on the full title page. New with remainder mark. Rare signature. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 240 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780142002520ISBN:0142002526
Description: Good. Books have varying amounts of wear and highlighting. Usually ships within 24 hours in quality packaging. Satisfaction guaranteed. read more
"A great compilation of essays concering children's books authors, as well as a few other essays on children's poetry, settings, and so on and so forth. I especially enjoyed the essay on nature in children's books. It was detailed and provided many examples to which one could identify."
"A second collection of essays about children's literature. The first, Not in Front of the Grown-Ups, was about subversive aspects of children's literature. This collection is less focused, but the essays tackle more recent fiction, such as the Harry Potter series.
I particularly liked the essays on Louisa May Alcott and J. K. Rowling, but they're all worth reading. After all, Lurie didn't win a Pulitzer for nothing."
"Maybe I'm a bit of a nerd for children's book academia, but I think there are interesting essays in here even for the casual reader. Her points on the Harry Potter phenomenon are particularly interesting."
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