MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2008053415
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008 081215s2009 nyua b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780393066012 (hardcover)
020 $a0393066010 (hardcover)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn227016228
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050 00 $aPN1009.A1$bT37 2009
082 00 $a809/.89282$222
100 1 $aTatar, Maria,$d1945-
245 10 $aEnchanted hunters :$bthe power of stories in childhood /$cMaria Tatar.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bW.W. Norton,$cc2009.
300 $aviii, 296 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [241]-284) and index.
520 $aTatar challenges the assumptions we make about childhood reading. By exploring how beauty and horror operate in children's literature, she examines how and what children read, showing how literature transports and transforms children with its intoxicating, captivating and occasionally terrifying energy.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Comfort zones or conflict zones -- Reading them to sleep : storytelling and the invention of bedtime reading -- Beauty, horror, and ignition power : can books change us? -- "Now I lay me down to sleep" : brushes with death -- The magic art of the great humbug : how to do things with words -- Theaters for the imagination : what words can do to you.
650 0 $aChildren's stories$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aChildren's stories$xAppreciation.
650 0 $aChildren's stories$xPsychological aspects.
650 0 $aChildren$xBooks and reading.
650 0 $aLiterature and morals.