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Don't tell the grown-ups : the subversive power of children's literature

Print Book, English, 1998
1st Bay Back paperback ed View all formats and editions
Little, Brown, Boston, 1998
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xv, 235 pages ; 25 cm
9780316246255, 0316246255
1019937731
1. Subversive Children's Literature
2. Folktale Liberation
3. Fairy Tale Fiction: Fitzgerald to Updike
4. Braking for Elves: Fashionable Folklore for Adults
5. The Child Who Followed the Piper: Kate Greenaway
6. Tales of Terror: Mrs. Clifford
7. Ford Madox Ford's Fairy Tales
8. Animal Liberation: Beatrix Potter
9. Modern Magic: E. Nesbit
10. The Boy Who Couldn't Grow Up: James Barrie
11. Happy Endings: Frances Hodgson Burnett
12. Back to Pooh Corner: A.A. Milne
13. Heroes for our Time: J.R.R. Tolkien and T.H. White
14. The Power of Smokey: Richard Adams
15. Games of Dark: William Mayne
16. The Folklore of Childhood
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