6/25/2023 0 Comments Wild Things by Bruce Handy( 5.) Eric Carle’s Very Hungry Caterpillar. ( 3.) Bruce Handy, the not-actually-this-stylish author of Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children’s Literature as an Adult. ( 1–2.) Wild Things and Max, from Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak. See.” Literary criticism through the prism of memoir, Wild Things is a “These are works of art,” Handy says, “and as with Lewis and God, and the revelation that is Laura Goodnight Moon, ends with Charlotte’s Web, and in between exploresīeatrix Potter’s principled anthropomorphism, Sendak and the fairy tale, To what is he responding? Handy starts with Response-intellectual, conspiratorial, comic, quizzical, charmed, To his children, Handy finds himself in a heightened realm of The books he read as a boy and to the books he discovered while reading Subjects high and low, silly and serious. Handy (a contributing editor at Vanity Fair) has ranged elegantly among Where mystical and marvelous surprises await. Golden Ticket into the Whipple-Scrumptious world of children’s classics, Literature as an Adult (Simon & Schuster). Out his first book, Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children’s That I would rather have read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”Īlready he was the smart aleck who would cut his teeth at Spy magazine.īut more than that, his answer was prophetic, for Handy is now bringing “What did you learn writing this paper?”-Handy wrote, “I learned The subject was Dostoyevsky’sĬrime and Punishment, and at the end of the paper-to the question Helping his mother with a recent move, Bruce Handy came across a paper
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