Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2008
Author
Author: Leonard S. Marcus
Language
English
Number of Pages
402 pp.
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
City
Boston, MA
Region
United States
Demographics
Children
Chronological Period
1900-1949
1950-1999
ISBN
9780395674079
Annotation

Contents: 

  • Providence and purpose in Colonial America and the young republic
  • Wonder in the wake of war: publishing for the children from the gilded age to the dawn of the new century
  • Innocence lost and found: the 1920s
  • Sisters in crisis and in conflict: the 1930s
  • World War and mass market: the 1940s
  • Fun and fear: the 1950s
  • Shaken and stirred: the 1960s
  • Change and more change: the 1970s
  • Suits and wizards at the millennium's gate
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