Download or read book Don't Tell the Grown-ups written by Alison Lurie and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this witty collection of essays, Alison Lurie considers authors such as A.A.Milne, E.Nesbit, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Lewis Carroll and J.R.R.Tolkien, and demonstrates that their enduring quality lies partly in the way they satirize adult society and speak with subversive directness to the imagination of the young reader. Together with fairy tales, rhymes and jokes, their stories provide a more powerful and resonant appeal than more carefully crafted morally improving literature.