3.5
Enchanted Hunters
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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.Download the free Fable app
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“I loved this book! I am a kindergarten teacher who teaches little kids to read because reading is one of my favorite things in life. This is an exploration of the history of telling stories to children. From around the hearth with the whole family to today - where is a bedtime story is a battle to get them to sleep. She explores themes in popular classic children's novels and what makes them irresistible to children.
I would recommend this book to those of us who have loved reading since we were children. Be warned you will want to go back and analyze your favorite books as a child.”
Ilana
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“Everyone and anyone who loves children's books, reading to children, writing for children, children in general, reading in general, or writing in general should read this book. And if you don't like any of those things, get out of here.”
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