{"product_id":"rereading-childhood-books-alison-waller-9781350178236","title":"Rereading Childhood Books: A Poetics","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShortlisted for the ESSE book awards 2020, for Literatures in the English Language\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChildhood books play a special role in reading histories, providing touchstones for our future tastes and giving shape to our ongoing identities. Bringing the latest work in Memory Studies to bear on writers' memoirs, autobiographical accounts of reading, and interviews with readers, \u003ci\u003eRereading Childhood Books\u003c\/i\u003eexplores how adults remember, revisit, and sometimes forget, these significant books. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Asking what it means to return to familiar works by well-known authors such as Lewis Carroll, C. S. Lewis and Enid Blyton, as well as popular and ephemeral material not often considered as part of the canon, Alison Waller develops a poetics of rereading and presents a new model for understanding lifelong reading. As such she reconceives the history of children's literature through the shared and individual experiences of the readers who carry these books with them throughout their lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alison Waller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350178233\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350178236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/20\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.52d","brand":"Alison Waller","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43941911953663,"sku":"9781350178236","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_00da3b22-69fe-4228-b279-9de43a73df07.jpg?v=1681455676","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rereading-childhood-books-alison-waller-9781350178236","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}