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Stories and poems for extremely intelligent children of all ages
By Bloom, Harold
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-68486-873-8
- Publisher
- New York : Scribner, 2001.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 2002
Gr 3-8 Bloom believes that his intended audience needs few, if any, selections written after World War I. Most stories and poems in this collection come from the 19th century and earlier. Authors represented include Aesop, Rudyard Kipling, Edward Lear, Christina Rossetti, Lewis Carroll, Robert Louis Stevenson, Christopher Smart, William Shakespeare, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and many more. In his introduction, Bloom states: "-Children's Literature'-is a mask for the dumbing-down that is destroying our literary culture. Most of what is now commercially offered as...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
