![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Let me try to say why without too much ire. To me, honouring it in this way can only suggest a depressing lack of knowledge of the nature and history of children’s literature on the part of these supposedly quality-minded critics. As someone who’s devoted some decades to taking children’s literature criticism seriously, reading it made me very, very angry. Lerer’s book is, I think, quite dreadful–very bad scholarship indeed. According to its website, the National Book Critics Circle consists of “more than 900 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing.” If so, they’ve made a surprising choice with this one. This book, it seems, has just been named as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle 2008 awards for criticism. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter. children's and young adult literature (56). ![]()
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