Tanya Jones's Toy Stories: The Toy as Hero in Literature, Comics and Film PDF

By Tanya Jones

ISBN-10: 1476665176

ISBN-13: 9781476665177

 Toys—those celebrated youth cohorts and lead actors in children’s creative play—have an exquisite historical past of heroism in fiction. From teddy bears that shield napping infants to plastic infantrymen and cowboys who lay siege to wood block castles, toys are frequently the heroes of the tales young children motivate authors to tell.
during this selection of new essays, students from a good diversity of disciplines research fictional toys as protectors of the kids they love, as heroes in their personal tales, and as champions for the higher strong within the writings of A.A. Milne, Hans Christian Andersen, William Joyce, John Lasseter and lots of others.

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