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The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature: a review.(The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature: The Traditions in English)(Book review)
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The Horn Book Magazine
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March 1, 2006
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Jack Zipes, Lissa Paul, Lynne Vallone, Peter Hunt, and Gillian Avery, eds. The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature: The Traditions in English
2471 pp. Norton 10/05 Paper edition ISBN 0-393-97538-X $65.00
The use of the term literature to describe books written for children is, for many academics, an oxymoron. Most university departments of literature and humanities still dismiss books written for children as unworthy of serious scholarly examination. A cursory look at the British, American, and World Literature editions of the Norton anthologies confirms this sentiment. Children's literature is, with rare exceptions, entirely absent from the accepted canon of ...
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