Making Americans: Children's Literature from 1930 to 1960
- ISBN-10
- 1609381920
- ISBN-13
- 9781609381929
- Series
- Making Americans
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 290
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-12
- Publisher
- University of Iowa Press
- Author
- Gary D. Schmidt
Description
Making Americans is a study of a time when the authors and illustrators of children's books consciously set their eyes on national and international sights, with the hope of bringing the next generation into a full sense of citizenship. Schmidt examines the literature for young people published during a momentous period in our nation's past, and documents in detail its role as an instrument of nation-building and social reform. A thought-provoking contribution to our understanding of children's books as cultural transmitters and transformers.
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