Childrens literature

By:

Grenby, M. O

Material type: Book

BookSeries: Edinburgh critical guides to literature | NetLibrary, IncPublication details: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008.Description: xxii, 232 p.: 23 cmISBN:

9780748622740

DDC classification:

820.99282 GRE

List(s) this item appears in: Poetry collection | World History | A Literature

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	IIT Gandhinagar	General	820.99282 GRE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		002128

This critical guide provides a concise yet comprehensive history of British and. North American children`s literature from its seventeenth-century origins to the. present day. Each chapter focuses on one of the main genres of children`s literature: fables,. fantasy, adventure stories, moral tales, family stories, the school story, and. poetry. M. O. Grenby shows how these forms have evolved over three hundred. years as well as asking why most children`s books, even today, continue to fall. into one or other of these generic categories. Why, for instance, has fantasy. been so appealing to both

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