The Promise of Happiness: Value and Meaning in Children's Fiction

by Fred Inglis

Book Overview

Originally published in paperback in 1982, this book was written in answer to the question 'which books should our children read, and why?' It is a study of what is, in the author's opinion, the best children's fiction of the previous hundred years, and at the same time a study of the social values which that fiction celebrates and criticises. Fred Inglis concentrates on stories for children aged between nine and thirteen; he contrasts the kinds of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521270707
• ISBN13: 9780521270700
• Release Date: October 1982
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"