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Transporting Nostalgia: The Little Golden Books as Souvenirs of Childhood
- Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 36, 2008
- pp. 145-161
- 10.1353/chl.0.0010
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This essay analyzes the intersecting influences of nostalgia and the Little Golden Books in current American popular culture through the marketing, collecting, and recycling of the books' idealized images of the 1940s and '50s.