Lewis Carroll kinda sus, huh

If you were a child who loved books, you should read this. If you grew up into an adult who loves books and still likes the stories marketed to children, you should read this. If you have children who you want to give the magic of books to, you should read this.

It's a literary analysis of what makes

Wonderful work so far...more

Enchanted Hunters is a thoroughly researched, well organized, and intelligently written examination of the complexity and wonder of childhood reading.

The author eloquently identifies why books have the power to captivate young readers: Held together by rubber bands, duct tape, and rusting paper cli

This seems to go here, there and everywhere and lacked a coherent theme. I wasn't ever quite sure what the point was, other than the really broad stroke of "children's literature changes children's lives and is powerful." Tatar ticks off all the greats - J.R.R. Tolkien, Alice's Adventures in Wonderl

This is an interesting, albeit flawed, work on the power that reading has for children. In particular, Tatar explores the mixed feelings adults have about children reading -- we all want them to do it, but then we worry that they're turning into "bookworms" and not socializing enough, or we worry ab

This author teaches folklore and children's literature at Harvard and some of her other books include annotated versions of classic fairy tales, so this is a rather scholarly look at some aspects of children's literature. She begins by connecting stories for children to storytelling for the whole fa