{"product_id":"fairy-tales-and-after-book-roger-sale-9780674291577","title":"Fairy Tales and After","description":"\u003cp\u003eRoger Sale invites us to discover anew some of the great works of children's literature, works that have been read and loved but seldom given the benefit of serious literary assessment. It takes a critic of special gifts--receptiveness, discrimination, clarity of perception, independence of judgment--to discuss these books as illuminatingly as Sale does.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a survey but a very personal book: Sale writes about stories and books with which he feels an imaginative sympathy. As it happens, they include a great many of the classic children's texts, works as disparate as Beauty and the Beast and \u003ci\u003eAlice\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wind in the Willows\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBabar\u003c\/i\u003e, The Snow Queen and \u003ci\u003ePeter Rabbit\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eJungle Book\u003c\/i\u003e and the Oz books. He conveys a fresh sense of what is special and memorable about each of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile avoiding conventional literary history, he sketches the circumstances of the author's life when they provide insight into the works. Unlike Bettelheim and others, Sale is not concerned with the uses of children's literature. He writes for adults, with the conviction that adults can find delight in these books. Many already do, and perhaps with his stimulus, many more will.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49528422695185,"sku":"GOR013386161","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50359236264209,"sku":"CIN0674291573G","price":5.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0674291573.jpg?v=1750743301","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/fairy-tales-and-after-book-roger-sale-9780674291577","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}