
About this book
Tatar challenges the assumptions we make about childhood reading. By exploring how beauty and horror operate in children's literature, she examines how and what children read, showing how literature transports and transforms children with its intoxicating, captivating and occasionally terrifying energy.
Subjects
AppreciationBooks and readingChildrenChildren's storiesHistory and criticismLiterature and moralsPsychological aspectsPsychological aspects of Children's storiesChildren, books and readingReading, psychology ofRezeptionErzählenKinderliteratur