{"id":292,"date":"2009-10-20T09:34:41","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T13:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/?p=292"},"modified":"2009-10-20T09:35:59","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T13:35:59","slug":"the-media-goes-viral-on-childrens-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/2009\/10\/20\/the-media-goes-viral-on-childrens-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"The Media Goes Viral on Children&#8217;s Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-293\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2009\/10\/sendak1.jpg\" alt=\"sendak\" width=\"190\" height=\"171\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/16\/the-reading-life-what-makes-a-childrens-classic\/\">http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/16\/the-reading-life-what-makes-a-childrens-classic\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dwight Garner takes the film version of &#8220;Where the Wild Things Are&#8221; as his point of departure for a meditation on what makes a children&#8217;s classic.  He invites readers to post titles of children&#8217;s books passed down through the generations.<\/p>\n<p>The success of &#8220;Where the Wild Things Are&#8221; has led to a sharp spike in the number of articles and reviews of children&#8217;s literature.  Why is the media suddenly paying attention?\u00a0  I think it has something to do with the realization that picture books not only stay with us&#8211;we don&#8217;t discard them as we grow up but internalize their words and images.  When we re-read them as adults, we feel a Proustian tug of involuntary memory but can also enjoy the story on an adult level, seeing and feeling things that we missed as a child.<\/p>\n<p>Top 10 picture books, anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/16\/the-reading-life-what-makes-a-childrens-classic\/ Dwight Garner takes the film version of &#8220;Where the Wild Things Are&#8221; as his point of departure for a meditation on what makes a children&#8217;s classic. He invites readers to post titles of children&#8217;s books passed down through the generations. The success of &#8220;Where the Wild Things Are&#8221; has led to a sharp spike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}