Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood

Ever wondered why little children love listening to stories, why older ones get lost in certain books?...
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Author: Maria Tatar
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood by Tatar, Maria

Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood

BD$73.68

Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood

BD$73.68
Author: Maria Tatar
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Ever wondered why little children love listening to stories, why older ones get lost in certain books? In this enthralling work, Maria Tatar challenges many of our assumptions about childhood reading. Much as our culture pays lip service to the importance of literature, we rarely examine the creative and cognitive benefits of reading from infancy through adolescence. By exploring how beauty and horror operated in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels, and many other narratives, Tatar provides a delightful work for parents, teachers, and general readers, not just examining how and what children read but also showing through vivid examples how literature transports and transforms children with its intoxicating, captivating, and occasionally terrifying energy. In the tradition of Bruno Bettelheim's landmark The Uses of Enchantment, Tatar's book is not only a compelling journey into the world of childhood but a trip back for adult readers as well.

Author: Maria Tatar
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/20/2009
Pages: 306
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.50w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780393066012


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 11/01/2008 pg. 45
Library Journal 03/15/2009 pg. 107
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2009 pg. 76

About the Author
Tatar, Maria: - Maria Tatar chairs the Program in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University. She is the author of Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood, Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood and many other books on folklore and fairy stories. She is also the editor and translator of The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen, The Annotated Brothers Grimm, The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales, The Annotated Peter Pan, The Classic Fairy Tales: A Norton Critical Edition and The Grimm Reader. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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