Baby Power
Marina Warner, 6 July 1989
The Romantic Child: From Runge to Sendak
by Robert Rosenblum.
Thames and Hudson, 64 pp., £5.95, February 1989,0 500 55020 4 Show More
by Robert Rosenblum.
Thames and Hudson, 64 pp., £5.95, February 1989,
Caldecott & Co: Notes on Books and Pictures
by Maurice Sendak.
Reinhardt, 216 pp., £13.95, March 1989,1 871061 06 7 Show More
by Maurice Sendak.
Reinhardt, 216 pp., £13.95, March 1989,
Dear Mili
by Wilhelm Grimm, translated by Ralph Manheim and Maurice Sendak.
Viking Kestrel, £9.95, November 1988,0 670 80168 2 Show More
by Wilhelm Grimm, translated by Ralph Manheim and Maurice Sendak.
Viking Kestrel, £9.95, November 1988,
Grimms’ Bad Girls and Bold Boys: The Moral and Social Vision of the ‘Tales’
by Ruth Bottigheimer.
Yale, 211 pp., £8.95, April 1989,0 300 04389 9 Show More
by Ruth Bottigheimer.
Yale, 211 pp., £8.95, April 1989,
The one who set out to study fear
by Peter Redgrove.
Bloomsbury, 183 pp., £13.95, April 1989,0 7475 0187 4 Show More
by Peter Redgrove.
Bloomsbury, 183 pp., £13.95, April 1989,
“... and rewrote the tales considerably, throughout the various stages of their dissemination – as Ruth Bottigheimer demonstrates with vigour and attention to detail in her very helpful study Bad Girls and Bold Boys. Dear Mili could almost have been written as a parody of the punitive isolation of all the good little girls in the tales, their passive ... ”
