The Children's Book Business is an exploration of how children's literature and children's literature publishing has been shaped by the relationship between what the author calls "status quo" books - didactic ones that support a perceived social order and often deny truths of the real, adult world - and what she calls "guerilla" books - those that undermine or question the values of the social order and actually encourage negotiation with the real world, albeit in a coded, literary way.
The book explains how testing, which is more pervasive than ever, champions basic skills over...
The Children's Book Business is an exploration of how children's literature and children's literature publishing has been shaped by the relationshi...
An exploration of how children's literature and publishing has been shaped by the relationship between didactic books that support a perceived social order and 'guerilla' books, those that undermine or question those values and actually encourage negotiation with the real world.
An exploration of how children's literature and publishing has been shaped by the relationship between didactic books that support a perceived social ...
