Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: The Subversive Power of Children's Literature
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ISBN: 0316246255 / Publisher: Back Bay Books, July 1998
This collection of essays probes the ways in which classic children's literature tends to undermine, rather than support, respectable adult values
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In sixteen spirited essays, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alison Lurie, who is also one of our wittiest and most astute cultural commentators, explores the world of children's literature--from Lewis Carroll to Dr. Seuss, Mark Twain to Beatrix Potter--and shows that the best-loved children's books tend to challenge rather than uphold respectable adult values.
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