Title: Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature
Author: Leonard S. Marcus
Call Number: Z480.C48 M37 2008
Pages: 416
Synopsis:
What should children read? As preeminent children's literature authority Leonard S. Marcus shows incisively, that's the three-hundred-year-old question that created a rambunctious children's book publishing scene in colonial times. And it's the urgent issue that went on to fuel the transformation of twentieth-century children's book publishing from a genteel backwater to big business.Marcus delivers a provocative look at the fierce turf wars fought among the pioneering editors, progressive educators, and librarians-most of them women- throughout the twentieth century. From The New England Primer to The Cat in the Hatto Cormier's The Chocolate War, Marcus offers a richly informed, witty analysis 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.--Retrieved from Books in Print, 9/02/09.
What should children read? As preeminent children's literature authority Leonard S. Marcus shows incisively, that's the three-hundred-year-old question that created a rambunctious children's book publishing scene in colonial times. And it's the urgent issue that went on to fuel the transformation of twentieth-century children's book publishing from a genteel backwater to big business.Marcus delivers a provocative look at the fierce turf wars fought among the pioneering editors, progressive educators, and librarians-most of them women- throughout the twentieth century. From The New England Primer to The Cat in the Hatto Cormier's The Chocolate War, Marcus offers a richly informed, witty analysis 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.--Retrieved from Books in Print, 9/02/09.
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