The Pleasures of Children's Literature 3rd Edition
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About this book
The Pleasures of Childrens Literature Third Edition offers an overview of childrens literature in the context of current professional discussion of childrens literature and reading. Focusing on controversial issues and designed to provoke thought and debate this ground-breaking text examines literary response to and analysis of the entire field of literary texts written by adults for children. The Pleasures of Childrens Literature Third Edition introduces and describes relevant current views in a number of disciplines including literary theory; ideological cultural and media studies; theories of visual culture and folklore; developmental and cognitive psychology; and pedagogical practice. Noteworthy new author team Nodelman and Reimer offer introductions to a range of relevant questions and approaches and give readers an overview of theoretical approaches current in literary studies and related disciplines. They offer readers insight into the ways these studies and approaches might illuminate both childrens responses and their own responses to understanding childrens literature.
