Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children’s Literature

(NYTBR) - ... Studies of books for young people are a recent phenomenon. “Children's books,” Marcus writes, “may well have mattered so little to historians of past generations precisely because the books mattered so much to children. With their place firmly fixed in the foreground of young people’s intimate lives, few scholars thought to look further or to ask what the books might possibly mean as commercial or cultural artifacts, much less as works of literature and art.” Continued