Posted on January 26, 2009 by pernodel
Lerer, Seth. Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
This book, it seems, has just been named as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle 2008 awards for criticism. According to its website, the National Book Critics Circle consists of “more than 900 active [...]
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Posted on November 10, 2008 by pernodel
Having gone to the Cineplex last Saturday to see John Adams’s opera Doctor Atomic “live” from the Met, I find myself thinking about it in terms of this alternating narratives project. What struck me was that, while much of the music is evocative and interesting, there really isn’t much else very involving going on in [...]
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Seth Lerer’s Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter
Lerer, Seth. Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
This book, it seems, has just been named as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle 2008 awards for criticism. According to its website, the National Book Critics Circle consists of “more than 900 active [...]
Filed under: Seth Lerer, Terry Pratchett, adult literature, book trailer, children's and young adult literature, my writing, opera, other things, snippy comments | 9 Comments »