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Crosscurrents of Children's Literature: An Anthology of Texts and Criticism. Edited by J. D. Stahl, Tina L. Hanlon, and Elizabeth Lennox Keyser. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xli + 1009 pp.
The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature: The Traditions in English. Edited by Jack Zipes, Lissa Paul, Lynne Vallone, Peter Hunt, and Gillian Avery. New York: W. W. Norton, 2005. xxxv + 2428 pp.
What is children's literature? How does children's literature differ from young adult and adult literature? Do authors of children's literature write for the very young, for adults, or for both? How do our conceptions of childhood shape the production as well as censorship of children's literature? The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature and Crosscurrents of Children's Literature both grapple with these and other questions surrounding the genre, and they refrain from providing a clear definition of children's literature due to the genre's inherent ambiguities. Yet both anthologies, though different in their selections and approaches, successfully introduce and illuminate children's literature from varying angles and allow students and scholars alike to further their understanding of this...
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