Books by Roni Natov

Investigates the sensibility of childhood and how writers try to recapture this. Beginning with the earliest conceptions of innocence, Natov follows the development of literature about children to the present day.

Winner of the 2005 International Research Society for Children's Literature Award, this work offers an investigation of the elusive sensibility of childhood and the ways writers have tried to capture it over time. It traces the development of a distinct poetics from the earliest conceptions of childhood innocence in the Romantic Age.