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Dec 31, 2002 | ISBN 9780142002520 Buy
Dec 31, 2002 | ISBN 9781440650109 Buy
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Dec 31, 2002 | ISBN 9780142002520
Dec 31, 2002 | ISBN 9781440650109
Are some of the world’s most talented children’s book authors essentially children themselves? In this engaging series of essays, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alison Lurie considers this theory, exploring children’s classics from many eras and relating them to the authors who wrote them, including Little Women author Louisa May Alcott and Wizard of Oz author Frank Baum, as well as Dr. Seuss and Salman Rushdie. Analyzing these and many others, Lurie shows how these gifted writers have used children’s literature to transfigure sorrow, nostalgia, and the struggles of their own experiences.
Alison Lurie is the author of many highly praised novels, including The War Between the Tates, The Truth About Lorin Jones (Prix Femina Etranger), and Foreign Affairs (Pulitzer Prize for fiction). She teaches writing, folklore, and literature at Cornell University.
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