Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood
ISBN-13:
9780393066012
ISBN-10:
0393066010
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Maria Tatar
Publication date:
2009
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Hardcover
306 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780393066012
ISBN-10:
0393066010
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Maria Tatar
Publication date:
2009
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Hardcover
306 pages
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Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood (ISBN-13: 9780393066012 and ISBN-10: 0393066010), written by authors
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Highly illuminating for parents, vital for students and book lovers alike, Enchanted Hunters transforms our understanding of why children should read.
Ever wondered why little children love listening to stories, why older ones get lost in certain books? In this enthralling work, Maria Tatar challenges many of our assumptions about childhood reading. Much as our culture pays lip service to the importance of literature, we rarely examine the creative and cognitive benefits of reading from infancy through adolescence. By exploring how beauty and horror operated in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels, and many other narratives, Tatar provides a delightful work for parents, teachers, and general readers, not just examining how and what children read but also showing through vivid examples how literature transports and transforms children with its intoxicating, captivating, and occasionally terrifying energy. In the tradition of Bruno Bettelheim’s landmark The Uses of Enchantment, Tatar’s book is not only a compelling journey into the world of childhood but a trip back for adult readers as well. 30 illustrationsWe would LOVE it if you could help us and other readers by reviewing the book
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