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Author:

Op de Beeck, Nathalie.

Title:

Suspended animation : children's picture books and the fairy tale of modernity / Nathalie op de Beeck.

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xix, 262 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Children's literature, American--History and criticism.
Picture books for children--United States--History--20th century.
Illustrated children's books--United States--History--20th century.
Literature and technology--United States--History--20th century.
Popular culture and literature--United States--History--20th century.
Picture books for children--History--United States--History--20th century.
Children--History--United States--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Picture books in modern times -- Here-and-now fairy tales : old world tradition and modern technology -- Picture-book ethnography : representing the other -- Sentient machines : lonesome locomotives and the mechanized modern body -- Murals in miniature : regionalism, labor, and obsolescence -- Picture book after 1942.

ISBN:

0816665745 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780816665747 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0816665737 (alk. paper)
9780816665730 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)617508714

LCCN:

2010031771

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)