Description: An innovative analysis of children's picture books from the interwar period in America.
Review Quotes:
"'Deeply researched and richly illustrated, Suspended Animation foregrounds the crucial and contentious role of the children's picture book in a conflicted twentieth century. It highlights the tug of nostalgic innocence against the complexities of industrialism, war, gender, and battles for ideological domination--with the stakes nothing less than actions and beliefs of the generation(s) of the future." --Cecelia Tichi, Vanderbilt University