Books Received

Connecting Children with Classics: A Reader-Centered Approach to Selecting and Promoting Great Literature. By Meagan Lacy and Pauline Dewan. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2018.

Intended primarily for librarians who serve child readers, Connecting Children with Classics provides practical advice and information on how to introduce children to classic children's books that match their reading interests. The book includes detailed annotations for many classics, organized into the following sections: Adventure/Survival, Animal, Fantasy, Fantasy Series, Historical Fiction, Myth/Legend, Realism/Everyday Life, Science Fiction, and Toys/Games.

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Sindbad the Sailor & Other Stories from the Arabian Nights. Translated by Laurence Housman. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Introduction by Marina Warner. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2019.

This new collector's edition of a work first published in 1914 as an objet d'art includes an original scholarly introduction by Marina Warner in which she discusses the history of this version of the Arabian Nights. It also includes Edmund Dulac's original watercolor illustrations from the 1914 edition.

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Smack-Bam, or the Art of Governing Men: Political Fairy Tales of Édouard Laboulaye. Translated and edited by Jack Zipes. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018.

Writing in France during the mid-nineteenth century, Édouard Laboulaye produced a series of original fairy tales with political overtones. In this new collection, Jack Zipes brings fifteen of these fairy tales back into print, prefaced by a scholarly introduction in which he provides key biographical information about their author.

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Young Adult Literature in the Composition Classroom: Essays on Practical Application. Edited by Tamara Girardi and Abigail G. Scheg. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018.

This collection of seventeen essays explores various ways in which works of young adult literature can be incorporated into the teaching of writing. Several of the contributors discuss popular young adult novels such as The Perks of Being a Wallflower, After-worlds, The Hunger Games, Twilight, and American Born Chinese.