Sticks and Stones
The Troublesome Success of Children's Literature from Slovenly Peter to Harry Potter
By Jack Zipes
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- ISBN: 978-0-415-93880-8
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 25th January 2002
- Pages: 240
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About the Book
Have children ever really had a literature of their own? In
Sticks and Stones, Jack Zipes explores children's literature, from the grissly moralism of Slovenly Peter to the hugely successful Harry Potter books, and argues that despite common assumptions about children's books, our investment in children is paradoxically curtailing their freedom and creativity.
Sticks and Stones is a forthright and engaging book by someone who cares deeply about what and how children read.
About the Author(s)
Jack Zipes is Professor of German at the University of Minnesota. Among his many publications are
Don't Bet on the Prince (Routledge),
Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (Bantam), and most recently the
Oxford Companion to the Fairy Tale.
