This book looks beyond alarmist newspaper headlines about fallingeducational standards, yobbishness and delinquency to describe whatmakes today's young people tick. Looking at a year in the life of seventeenagers from Seven Kings High School in Ilford, this book provides avivid picture of today's young people.
Feeling Like A Kid: Childhood and Children's Literature.
By Jerry Griswold. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Looking at classic and popular children's books, Jerry Griswold exploresthe unique qualities of childhood experience and the ways in which theyreappear as frequent themes in children's literature. He argues thatgreat writers manage to evoke the feeling of being a child: hiding undertables, arranging miniature worlds of toys, and conversing with dollsover tea.
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