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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Handy, Bruce, author.     Subjects     Children's literature -- History and criticism.     Books and reading.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Handy, Bruce, author.       by title:      Wild things [large t...         MARC Display

Wild things [large type] : the joy of reading children's literature as an adult / Bruce Handy. by Handy, Bruce, author. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2017. Subjects Children's literature -- History and criticism.   Books and reading. ISBN:  9781432843540 (large print : hardback) 1432843540 (large print : hardback) Series:  Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction. Description:  491 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm. Edition:  Large print edition. Contents:  New eyes, new ears: Margaret Wise Brown and Goodnight Moon -- Runaways: Family drama in picture books ... and well beyond -- Once upon a time and in and out of weeks: Fairy tales and Maurice Sendak -- Why a duck? The uses of talking animals from Aesop to Beatrix Potter to Olivia the Pig -- You have to know how: Dr. Seuss vs. Dick and Jane -- Kids being kids: Ramona Quimby, American pest -- God and man in Narnia -- One nation: Washington's cherry tree, Rosa Park's bus, and Oz -- Going on seventeen (or not): Little Women, little houses, and Peter Pans -- The end: Dead pets, dead grandparents, and the glory of everything. Requests:  0 Summary:  Bruce Handy revisits the classics of every American childhood, from fairy tales to The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and explores the back stories of their creators, using context and biography to understand how some of the most creative authors and illustrators of their times created their often deeply personal masterpieces. Along the way, Handy learns what The Cat in the Hat says about anarchy and absentee parenting, which themes are shared by The Runaway Bunny and Portnoy's Complaint, and why Ramona Quimby is as true an American icon as Tom Sawyer or Jay Gatsby.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Library For The Blind and Print Disabled Large Type LT 809.89282 Ha Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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