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Tatar challenges the assumptions we make about childhood reading. By exploring how beauty and horror operate in children's literature, she examines how and what children read, showing how literature transports and transforms children with its intoxicating, captivating and occasionally terrifying energy.
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Enchanted hunters: the power of stories in childhood
2009, W. W. Norton, W. W. Norton & Co.
in English
- 1st ed.
0393066010 9780393066012
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Comfort zones or conflict zones
Reading them to sleep : storytelling and the invention of bedtime reading
Beauty, horror, and ignition power : can books change us
Now I lay me down to sleep : brushes with death
The magic art of the great humbug : how to do things with words
Theaters for the imagination : what words can do to you.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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