“Wild Things” doesn’t have much of an argument to make other than its premise that we should take children’s literature seriously, which I think many people already do, and yet the book succeeds wonderfully, not so much as an argument but as an eccentric essay, and an emanation of spirit.” This not-quite-method leaves the book occasionally feeling dutiful - but mostly not. Some of these are from his own childhood, some are books he read to his (still growing) children, and some seem chosen to answer a curiosity about what so-called girl books really are. The New York Times: A Grown-Up’s Travels Down the Rabbit Hole of Children’s Literature - “Handy selects a few titles to represent each age, from babydom on up to whatever it is children become before they become us.
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A clear-eyed love letter to the greatest children's books and authors from Louisa May Alcott and L. It's a profound, eye-opening experience to reencounter books that you once treasured after decades apart. Along the way, Handy learns what The Cat in the Hat says about anarchy and absentee parenting, which themes are shared by The Runaway Bunny and Portnoy's Complaint, and why Ramona Quimby is as true an American icon as Tom Sawyer or Jay Gatsby. So how did we get from there to "Let the wild rumpus start"? And now that we're living in a golden age of children's literature, what can adults get out of reading Where the Wild Things Are and Goodnight Moon, or Charlotte's Web and Little House on the Prairie? In Wild Things, Vanity Fair contributing editor Bruce Handy revisits the classics of every American childhood, from fairy tales to The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and explores the back stories of their creators, using context and biography to understand how some of the most insightful, creative, and witty authors and illustrators of their times created their often deeply personal masterpieces. Offering children gems of advice such as "Strive to learn" and "Be not a dunce," it was no fun at all. In 1690, the dour New England Primer, thought to be the first American children's book, was published in Boston. "An irresistible, nostalgic, and insightful-and totally original-ramble through classic children's literature from Vanity Fair contributing editor (and father) Bruce Handy.
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