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Reading and Rebellion - An Anthology of Radical Writing for Children 1900-1960 (Hardcover)
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Reading and Rebellion - An Anthology of Radical Writing for Children 1900-1960 (Hardcover)
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Kim Reynolds, Jane Rosen, and Michael Rosen present a new anthology
of radical writings for children from the first half of the
twentieth century. In the years 1900 to 1960, large sections of the
British population embraced a spectrum of left-wing positions with
a view to maintaining peace and creating a more just, less class
riven, more planned, and more enjoyable society for all. Children's
books and periodicals were a central part of radical activity since
the young were expected not just to inherit but also to help make
this new society, and reading was regarded as the most direct way
of helping them acquire the skills for this task. From alphabets
through picture books, periodicals, information books, plays,
song-books, pamphlets, and novels, many works of children's
literature leaned left, but with the possible exception of
references to Geoffrey Trease's Bows Against the Barons (1934), a
Marxist retelling of the Robin Hood story, it is almost impossible
to realise this from standard accounts of this period. This
anthology contains a wide selection of the kinds of materials that
left-wing and progressive parents would have wanted their children
to read and which children understood as part of their initiation
into a politically radical class.
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