| #1111080 in Books | 2016-05-16 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 10.00 x7.00 x.75l, | File type: PDF | 280 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| For All Who Care about Children|By Louise Nayer|Written in a beautiful poetic style--and highly researched, Crain takes us on a journey no one else has done before with such depth and insight: how children learn to read and how they were treated in 19th century America. A must-read not just for academics but for anyone who cares about children.
What does it mean for a child to be a "reader" and how did American culture come to place such a high value on this identity? Reading Children offers a history of the relationship between children and books in Anglo-American modernity, exploring long-lived but now forgotten early children's literature, discredited yet highly influential pedagogical practices, the property lessons inherent in children's book ownership, and the emergence of childhood itself as a ...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Reading Children: Literacy, Property, and the Dilemmas of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America (Material Texts) | Patricia Crain. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
