Through the Eyes of a Child: An Introduction to Children's Literature

Title

en_US Through the Eyes of a Child: An Introduction to Children's Literature

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Third edition

en_US Donna E. Norton

Creator

en_US Norton, Donna E.

Date

2016-01-25T19:03:33Z

en_US 1995-12

en_US 1991

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:03:33Z

Date Issued

en_US 1991

Abstract

en_US In this mammoth, nicely-colored book, Norton addresses the subject of fables several times. Early (47) she points out that his book of Aesop's fables was probably Caxton's most important among many important contributions. She mentions Harvey Darton's opinion that, with a little modernizing, Caxton's is still the best text for children today. On 228-29, she offers some not very helpful definition material that may limit fables unfortunately to animals and explain their meaning as allegorical. On 257-9, she offers some more refined characteristics of fable taken from Lenaghan's Caxton's Aesop. She then gives a good survey of recent fable books, including Caldecott, L'Estange (sic), Stevens, Cauley, White, Paxton, Holder, Hague, Santore, Testa, and Bierhorst (with bibliographical data on 290). She returns to using fables to provide examples of allegory on 329. Two of Paxton and Rayevsky's books are recommended for promoting group responses and choral singing (390 and 401). Previous editions of this book were published in 1983 and 1987.

Identifier

en_US 0675211441

en_US 4312 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79586

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Maxwell Macmillan International Pub. Group

en_US Toronto

Subject

en_US PN1009.A1 N68 1991

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole