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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.
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2 editions- Other · English · 2009W. W. Norton · 296 pages · 9780393066012
- Other · English · 2009Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 304 pages · 9780393240047
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