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The Literary Heritage of Childhood : An Appraisal of Children's Classics in the Western Tradition (Contributions to the Study of World Literature)
The Literary Heritage of Childhood An Appraisal of Children's Classics in the Western Tradition - Contributions to the Study of World Literature Author:Charles H. Frey, John Griffith "In twenty-eight essays, Frey and Griffith, members of the English faculty at the University of Washington, examine many of the traditional and new children's classics. The authors explore the relationship between the writer's lives and the stories they tell. Purposes and literary techniques are also discussed. Each essay provides t... more »he reader with the authors' answers to the question: What special qualities make this book a classic? Fairy and folk tales and fantasy; works by Dickens, Craig, Collodi, Alcott, Twain, Kipling, Potter, Wilder; and poetry of Lear and Stevenson are included. Teachers of children's literature will find these essays useful for helping students understand the characteristics of the classic literature of childhood. The book is recommended for college and university libraries and for large and medium-sized public library collections." The Journal of Youth Services in Libraries« less