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.
- ISBN10 0613616073
- ISBN13 9780613616072
- Publish Date 1 December 2002
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 December 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Econo-Clad Books, Div. of American Cos., Inc.
- Edition Bound for Schools & Libraries ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English