Jerome Griswold
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"The Meanings of "Beauty and the Beast" provides expert commentary on the tale and on representative critical approaches and contemporary adaptions. This books also includes a variety of original source materials and twenty-three colour illustrations." "The Meanings of "Beauty and the Beast" is for any reader who wishes to explore this classic, endlessly rich fairy tale."--Jacket.
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"Through his insightful readings of dozens of classic and popular books for the young - from Beatrix Potter to Harry Potter, from Little Red Riding Hood to The Wind in the Willows to Goodnight Moon - noted scholar and columnist Jerry Griswold explores the unique qualities of childhood experience and the ways in which they reappear as frequent themes in children's literature. Great writers for children succeed, he demonstrates, because of their uncanny...