LEADER 02724nam 22005771 450 001 9910788936603321 005 20230803033204.0 010 $a1-60938-221-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000000057017 035 $a(EBL)1520831 035 $a(OCoLC)862077756 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001040994 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11595589 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001040994 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11009304 035 $a(PQKB)11316188 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1520831 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27492 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1520831 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10791310 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000057017 100 $a20131107h20132013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMaking Americans $echildren's literature from 1930 to 1960 /$fGary D. Schmidt 210 1$aIowa City :$cUniversity of Iowa Press,$d[2013] 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (319 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-60938-192-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aImagining American democracy: self-reliance and social cooperation -- James Daugherty: the democracy of the American pioneer -- Defining American democracy: normalizing inclusion -- The "Childhood of Famous Americans" series: challenges to mythic narratives -- Adapting American democracy: responding to the urgencies of war -- Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire: America as the land of opportunity -- Globalizing American democracy: exporting the American heritage -- Virginia Lee Burton and Robert McCloskey: (in)security in America. 330 $aAmerican children need books that draw on their own history and circumstances, not just the classic European fairy tales. They need books that enlist them in the great democratic experiment that is the United States. These were the beliefs of many of the authors, illustrators, editors, librarians, and teachers who expanded and transformed children's book publishing between the 1930's and the 1960's. Although some later critics have argued that the books published in this era offered a vision of a safe, secure, simple world without injustice or unhappy endings, Gary D. Schmidt shows 606 $aChildren's literature 606 $aLiterature 615 0$aChildren's literature. 615 0$aLiterature. 676 $a810.9 676 $a810.9/9282 676 $a810.99282 700 $aSchmidt$b Gary D$01473070 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788936603321 996 $aMaking Americans$93686125 997 $aUNINA