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Recommended Nonfiction & Folklore:
Alice Miller: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child Rearing and the Roots of Violence
Alison Lurie: Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: The Subversive Power of Children's Literature
Francis Spufford: The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading
Jane Yolen: Mightier Than the Sword: World Folktales for Strong Boys
Jane Yolen: Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie, and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
Jane Yolen: Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls
Joan Gould: Spinning Straw into Gold: Transformations in Women's Lives
Kate Bernheimer, ed.: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women on Fairy Tales
Kate Bernheimer, ed.: Brothers and Beasts: Men on Fairy Tales
Louise A. DeSalvo: Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Maria Tatar: Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood
Sheldon Cashdan: The Witch Must Die: How Fairy Tales Shape Our Lives