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Making Americans : Children's Literature from 1930 to 1960

Paperback • 2013 • Norwegian Bokmål

Making Americans : Children's Literature from 1930 to 1960

By Gary D. Schmidt

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About the book

American children need books that draw on their own history and circumstances, not just the classic European fairy tales. They need books that enlist them in the great democratic experiment that is the United States. These were the beliefs of many of the authors, illustrators, editors, librarians, and teachers who expanded and transformed children's book publishing between the 1930s and the 1960s.Although some later critics have argued that the books published in this era offered a vision of a s...Show more

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ISBN

9781609381929

Publisher

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press

Published year

2013

Language

Norwegian Bokmål

Original title

Making Americans : Children's Literature from 1930 to 1960

Format

Paperback

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