Don't Tell the Grown-Ups The Subversive Power

In sixteen spirited essays, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alison Lurie, who is also one of our wittiest and most astute cultural commentators, explores the world of children's literature--from Lewis Carroll to Dr. Seuss, Mark Twain to Beatrix Potter--and shows that the best-loved children's books tend to challenge rather than uphold respectable adult values.

Foreword

ix

1 Subversive Children's Literature

3

(13)

2 Folktale Liberation

16

(13)

3 Fairy Tale Fiction: Fitzgerald to Updike

29

(12)

4 Braking for Elves: Fashionable Folklore for Adults

41

(10)

5 The Child Who Followed the Piper:

51

(16)

Kate Greenaway

6 Tales of Terror:

67

(7)

Mrs. Clifford

7 Ford Madox Ford's Fairy Tales

74

(16)

8 Animal Liberation:

90

(9)

Beatrix Potter

9 Modern Magic:

99

(19)

E. Nesbit

10 The Boy Who Couldn't Grow Up:

118

(18)

James Barrie

11 Happy Endings:

136

(8)

Frances Hodgson Burnett

12 Back to Pooh Corner:

144

(12)

A. A. Milne

13 Heroes for Our Time:

156

(13)

J.R.R. Tolkien

T. H. White

14 The Power of Smokey:

169

(9)

Richard Adams

15 Games of Dark:

178

(11)

William Mayne

16 The Folklore of Childhood

189

(16)

Notes

205

(14)

Bibliography

219

(8)

Index

227

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Don't Tell the Grown-Ups The Subversive Power of Children's Literature

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