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Dennis Butts, Peter Hunt - Why Was Billy Bunter Never Really Expelled?, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Why Was Billy Bunter Never Really Expelled?

and another Twenty-Five Mysteries of Children's Literature

Av Dennis Butts, Peter Hunt

Del i serien Lutterworth Press

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A new collection of essays exploring the questions raised by children's fiction, from textual puzzles to historical and cultural conundrums.After the success of How Did Long John Silver Lose His Leg?, Dennis Butts and Peter Hunt take their forensic lenses to more mysteries that have troubled readers of children's books over the centuries. Their questions range from the historical to the philosophical, some of which are puzzling, some of which are controversial:- Why does it seem there are no Nursery Rhymes before 1744?- Why did God start to die in children's books long before Nietzsche noticed it?- Why are the schoolgirls at Enid Blyton's St Clare's so horrible?- Why are there so many dead parents littering children's books?- Why does C.S. Lewis annoy so many people?The book also explains why an elephant captures Adolph Hitler, who was Biggles's great love, and whose side G.A. Henty was on in the American civil war, and delivers a plethora of erudite, entertaining answers to questions that you may not have thought of asking. And notably, of course, it reveals why William George Bunter, the Fat Owl of the Remove, was never permanently removed from Greyfriars School.
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Dennis Butts taught children's literature at Reading University and is a former Chairman of the Children's Books History Society. He has written widely about children's books, including From the Dairyman's Daughter to Worrals of the WAAF (Lutterworth Press, 2006) and How Did Long John Silver Lose His Leg? (Lutterworth Press, 2013).Peter Hunt was the first Professor of Children's Literature in a British university (Cardiff), has produced nearly forty books on the subject, and has lectured on it at well over 100 universities in twenty-two countries. His most recent books are The Making of The Wind in the Willows (The Bodleian Library, 2018) and The Fabulous Journeys of Alice and Pinocchio with Laura Tosi (McFarland, 2018).

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Once again Dennis and Peter take us on an often unexpected but entertaining journey through the world of children's authors, books, stories, and rhymes that we all know and love, but with their unique line of questioning and analysis. This long-awaited sequel is an essential gem of a publication for anyone with an interest in children's literature or who, like me, had a bookish childhood.

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