Name: Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: The Subversive Power of Children's Literature
Author: Alison Lurie

Alison Lurie

<span>In sixteen spirited essays, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alison Lurie, who is also one of our wittiest and most astute cultural commentators, explores the world of children's literature--from Lewis Carroll to Dr. Seuss, Mark Twain to Beatrix Potter--and shows that the best-loved children's books tend to challenge rather than uphold respectable adult values. </span>

Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: The Subversive Power of Children's Literature

Words and Worlds: From Autobiography to Zippers

The Language of Houses: How Buildings Speak to Us

Truth and Consequences

Boys and Girls Forever: Children's Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter

Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson

The Black Geese: A Baba Yaga Story From Russia

The Last Resort

Women and Ghosts

The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales

The Truth About Lorin Jones

Foreign Affairs

The Language of Clothes

Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Folktales

Only Children

The War Between the Tates

Real People

Imaginary Friends

The Nowhere City

Love and Friendship

Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: The Subversive Power of Children's Literature

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