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Enchanted Hunters

The Power of Stories in Childhood

by Maria Tatar
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Highly illuminating for parents, vital for students and book lovers alike, Enchanted Hunters transforms our understanding of why children should read.

Ever wondered why little children love listening to stories, why older ones get lost in certain books? In this enthralling work, Maria Tatar challenges many of our assumptions about childhood reading. Much as our culture pays lip service to the importance of literature, we rarely examine the creative and cognitive benefits of reading from infancy through adolescence. By exploring how beauty and horror operated in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels, and many other narratives, Tatar provides a delightful work for parents, teachers, and general readers, not just examining how and what children read but also showing through vivid examples how literature transports and transforms children with its intoxicating, captivating, and occasionally terrifying energy. In the tradition of Bruno Bettelheim's landmark The Uses of Enchantment, Tatar's book is not only a compelling journey into the world of childhood but a trip back for adult readers as well.

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  • Release date

    October 22, 2012

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      • ISBN: 9780393240047
      • File size: 3622 KB

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      • ISBN: 9780393240047
      • File size: 3622 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      March 15, 2009
      Most adult book lovers start as child story lovers. Their parents probably read them to sleep when they were little, and they probably stayed up late reading under the covers when they were a bit older. But what is it about those childhood stories that captured the imagination of story-loving children? Tatar (John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages & Literatures, Harvard Univ.; "The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales") attempts to answer that question in this enchanting book. She examines many aspects of children's literature, from why we read children to sleep, to death and its role in children's stories, to the effect of words on young minds. Tatar uses the recollections of famous writers and readers (compiled in an engrossing appendix) as her source material to argue convincingly that children are drawn to stories not as a form of escape but as a way to understand and explore themselves and the world around them in a safe yet exciting way. Highly recommended for bibliophiles in public and academic libraries.Deborah Hicks, Univ. of Alberta Lib., Edmonton

      Copyright 2009 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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