This is a work of meticulous scholarship, detailed in content, succinct in style and format. Each chapter covers a particular time period and opens with section
Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children’s literature. Children’s Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination
This vivid picture of how children lived and died portrays childhood at all levels of European mediaeval society - from the peasant girl who longed to read, to
“The study of children’s literature is not just about children and the books said to be for them; it is also about the societies and cultures from which the
In this collection the multidimensional story of children’s literature in the formative period of the long nineteenth century is illuminated, questioned, and,