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Leonard S. MarcusPublication Details
BookHoughton Mifflin Co2008Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PN1009.A1 M365 2008 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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From The New England Primer to The Cat in the Hat to Cormier’s The Chocolate War, Marcus offers a richly informed, witty appraisal of the pivotal books that transformed children’s book publishing, and brings alive the revealing synergy between books like these and the national mood of their times. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Children’s literature — Publishing — United States — History
- Children’s books — United States — History
- Children — Books and reading — United States — History
- Children’s literature — Publishing — United States — History — 20th century
- Children’s books — United States — History — 20th century
- Children — Books and reading — United States — History — 20th century
Contents
- Providence and purpose in Colonial America and the young republic
- Wonder in the wake of war : publishing for the children from the gilded age to the dawn of the new century
- Innocence lost and found : the 1920s
- Sisters in crisis and in conflict : the 1930s
- World War and mass market : the 1940s
- Fun and fear : the 1950s
- Shaken and stirred : the 1960s
- Change and more change : the 1970s
- Suits and wizards at the millennium’s gate
ISBN
- 9780395674079
- 0395674077
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