Feeling Like a Kid: Childhood and Children's Literature

by Jerry Griswold

Book Overview

A lively and illustrated inquiry of how children's literature reflects the curious mind of a child--now available in paperback.

Outstanding Academic Title for 2007, Choice Magazine

In this engaging book, Jerry Griswold examines the unique qualities of childhood experience and their reappearance as frequent themes in children's literature. Surveying dozens of classic and popular works for the young--from Heidi and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801885175
• ISBN13: 9780801885174
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 7.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

A perfect book for undergraduates

For anyone looking for a short book to accompany a college course in children's lit, this book is it. It is simply written, not marred by abstruse critical jargon, and discusses a host of interesting things worth covering in an undergraduate course. And Johns Hopkins did a beautiful job with the book itself. It's a little work of art, the kind of thing students will keep.

What a little gem of a book!

This absolutely wonderful book illuminates the world of childhood like no other. Griswold examines dozens of childrens* stories and discovers certain qualities common to all of them--snugness,scariness, smallness, lightness, and aliveness. He shows us how these qualities are central to a childs perception of the world. Lucidly written, convincingly argued, profusely illustrated, this is a book that every parent who reads stories to his or her child should have. And its* a gorgeous book as well--an example of the bookmaking art at its best. *(the apostrophe doesn*t seem to work on this computer--Im not illiterate)