Enchanted hunters : the power of stories in childhood /
Maria Tatar.
- 1st ed.
- New York : W. W. Norton, 2009.
- viii, 296 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-284) and index.
Introduction: Comfort zones or conflict zones -- Reading them to sleep : storytelling and the invention of bedtime reading -- Beauty, horror, and ignition power : can books change us -- Now I lay me down to sleep : brushes with death -- The magic art of the great humbug : how to do things with words -- Theaters for the imagination : what words can do to you.
9780393066012 (hardcover)
2008053415
Children's stories--History and criticism. Children's stories--Appreciation. Children's stories--Psychological aspects. Children--Books and reading. Literature and morals.