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Between Art and Pedagogy: The History of Danish Children's Literature
- Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature
- University of Toronto Press
- Volume 46, Number 3, 2008
- pp. 5-12
- 10.1353/bkb.0.0102
- Article
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It's the same story everywhere: children's books as we know them developed from books with didactic intentions, and our thinking about children's books still bears traces of that didactic history. Torben Weinreich, whose book on the history of Danish children's literature won the IRSCL award, gives a fascinating overview of Danish children's literature from stern beginnings to a flourishing situation today