The Literary Heritage of Childhood: An Appraisal of Children's Classics in the Western Tradition

by Charles Frey and John Griffith

In twenty-eight essays, Frey and Griffith, members of the English faculty at the University of Washington, examine many of the traditional and new children's classics. The authors explore the relationship between the writer's lives and the stories they tell. Purposes and literary techniques are also discussed. Each essay provides the reader with the authors' answers to the question: What special qualities make this book a classic? Fairy and folk...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313256810
• ISBN13: 9780313256813
• Release Date: August 1987
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"