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Highly illuminating for parents, vital for students, teachers and book lovers alike, "Enchanted Hunters" transforms our understanding of why children should read. By exploring how beauty and horror operate in children's literature, Maria Tatar explores why little children love listening to stories and why older ones get lost in certain books. Tatar challenges the assumptions we make about childhood reading. Much as we pay lip service to the importance of literature, we rarely examine the creative and cognitive benefits of reading. By looking at C.S. Lewis' "The Chronicles of Narnia", Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials", J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels and other narratives, Tatar examines how and what children read, showing how literature transports and transforms children with its intoxicating, captivating and occasionally terrifying energy. A journey into the world of childhood, "Enchanted Hunters" is also a trip back for adult readers.
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* MARIA TATAR is the John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, where she teaches courses on folklore and literature. She is the author of, among other titles, The Annotated Brothers Grimm (ISBN 978 0 393 05848 2).
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Enchanted Hunters does something quite daring and tries to get at the childhood reading experience. The author includes a fabulous compilation of adult recollections of the childhood reading experience. Her analysis tries to identify common strategies used by authors of children's literature to engage the attention of the child. There are chapters on death in children's literature, on the power of words to create beauty and fully realized worlds, and on many other subjects. The volume is not a history of children's literature and does not try to be comprehensive. Instead, the author, inspired by the many questions raised by the contact zone between adults and children established while reading together, turns to books that have stood the test of time to figure out what works in literature for children. A moving volume that still has me thinking.
1 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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It superficially glosses over all the good classic children's literature and is written in a stilted manner, more like an examination paper.Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood
0 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Such a lightweight book, you will barely learn anything.
Full of flowery phrases and literature-babble.
If you think I'm wrong please tell me.
Full of flowery phrases and literature-babble.
If you think I'm wrong please tell me.
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