The Childrens Book Business (Children's Literature and Culture)

by Lissa Paul (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2011

  $151.20

  Explains how testing, which is more pervasive than ever, champions basic skills over appreciation of literary merit, and creates a great demand for suitably neutral (bland, inoffensive) texts that are anything but worthwhile in terms of the kind of intellectual and emotional pleasure that provides the motivation for being literate.