The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature 1984 Illustrated Hardcover Book in Original Dust Jacket (Humphrey Carpenter & Mari Prichard)

The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature 1984 Illustrated Hardcover Book in Original Dust Jacket (Humphrey Carpenter & Mari Prichard)

<Condition is Very Good as Pictured> (normal wear with markings, light edge-wear, gently bumped/rubbed corners, age appropriate toning to interior pages) size is approximately 9.5” x 6.5”

—With nearly 2,000 entries and 136 illustrations, this book is a delightful and endlessly illuminating addition to Oxford's famed Companion series. "There is nothing quite like this encyclopedic, one-volume compendium of children's booklore." says Library Journal. "Information abounds on virtually every aspect of children's books and a good many elements of children's popular culture... Enthusiastically recommended."

The status of children's literature-regarded for years as ephemeral at best and corrupting at worst-has changed dramatically over the last twenty years.Juvenile reading matter has now become the focus of countless conferences, courses of study, and critical works both scholarly and popular. This new Companion brings together all aspects of the subject, making it an indispensable reference work for parents, teachers, general readers, and librarians as well as collectors of early printed books and students of folk literature.
Included are nearly 2,000 entries, more than 900 of which are biographical sketches of authors, illustrators, printers, and publishers. The remaining entries cover traditional materials such as fairy tales and folklore; characters from books, cartoons, comic strips, radio, and tele-vision; genres such as school stories, dime novels, and science fiction; printing and reproduction processes; and many aspects of children's play and learning. Plot summaries are given for major works of fic-tion, and, for all important children's books, there are short accounts of their composition and publishing history.

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