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Touch Magic
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 398.083
EAN: 9780874835915
Edition: Exp Sub
ISBN: 0874835917
Label: August House
Manufacturer: August House
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: October 25, 2000
Publisher: August House
Release Date: October 02, 2007
Studio: August House
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Editorial Review:
Our children are growing up without their birthright: the myths, fairy tales, fantasies and folklore that are their proper legacy.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Wonderful Resource and Discussion on Fantasy Literature
"It is true that fairy tales have an effect, but it is a healthy, nurturing, cathartic effect, not a fault. Using archetypes and symbolic language, they externalize for the listener conflicts and situations that cannot be spoken of or explained or as yet analyzed. They give substance to dreams." (p 44)
In a time in which fantasy tales are often under challenge, Yolen makes a strong case for their importance in Touch Magic. She believes that, more than magic and mythical creatures, these ... Read More
Rating: - In-Depth review (TWU assignment)
Content Overview
In Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood, Yolen has put together 16 essays that delve deep into the psychology, sociology and importance of relating fairy and folk tales to children. The first edition of the book came out in 1981 and contained 10 essays that were written for her Doctorate of Education (Yolen 2007). The six new essays were added for the current edition.
The expanded edition reviewed here is broken down into four parts. ... Read More
Rating: - Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore
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Rating: - Helpful Perspective on Folk and Legendary Tales for Children
This book will touch on deep and meaningful experiences that you have had while reading as a child and reading to children. By reading those perspectives organized into a series of short essays, you will better be able to read and enjoy the classic tales and bring the most meaning to them for yourself and others. Although I spend a great deal of time thinking about children's literature, this book greatly extended by ability to conceptualize the context for benefiting from these stories.
Ms. Yolen begins ... Read More
Rating: - Compelling insight into the need for story and fantasy
Jane Yolen offers strong reasons for the absolute need children have for stories and fairy tales, in their glory as well as their gore. In brilliant, almost poetic prose, she lends perspective and personal insight into the food for our souls these stories provide. She shares a particularly powerful example from her own childhood, a book by E. Nesbit, THE POWER OF THE AMULET. As a Jewish child in New York City, reading this book in about 1946, she was completely drawn into the fantasy world created. Only as ... Read More
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