Boys and Girls Forever: Children's Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter by Lurie, Alison

Boys and Girls Forever: Children's Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780142002520)

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Boys and Girls Forever: Children's Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter by Lurie, Alison

Boys and Girls Forever: Children's Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter

$24.00
Boys and Girls Forever: Children's Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter by Lurie, Alison

Boys and Girls Forever: Children's Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter

$24.00
Format: Paperback
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Are some of the world's most talented children's book authors essentially children themselves? In this engaging series of essays, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alison Lurie considers this theory, exploring children's classics from many eras and relating them to the authors who wrote them, including Little Women author Louisa May Alcott and Wizard of Oz author Frank Baum, as well as Dr. Seuss and Salman Rushdie. Analyzing these and many others, Lurie shows how these gifted writers have used children's literature to transfigure sorrow, nostalgia, and the struggles of their own experiences.

Author: Alison Lurie
ISBN-10: 0142002526
ISBN-13: 9780142002520
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Language: English
Published: 12/31/2002
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.33w x 0.54d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 11/15/2002 pg. 562
Publishers Weekly 12/02/2002 pg. 45
New York Review of Books 03/27/2003 pg. 4
Women's Review of Books 04/01/2003 pg. 8
By Alison Lurie
By Alison Lurie
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Alison Lurie is the author of many highly praised novels, including The War Between the Tates, The Truth About Lorin Jones (Prix Femina Etranger), and Foreign Affairs (Pulitzer Prize for fiction). Her most recent book was Familiar Spirits. She teaches writing, folklore, and literature at Cornell University.

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