Good Books
Marghanita Laski, 1 October 1981
The Promise of Happiness
by Fred Inglis.
Cambridge, 333 pp., £17.50, March 1981,0 521 23142 6 Show More
by Fred Inglis.
Cambridge, 333 pp., £17.50, March 1981,
The Child and the Book
by Nicholas Tucker.
Cambridge, 259 pp., £15, March 1981,0 521 23251 1 Show More
by Nicholas Tucker.
Cambridge, 259 pp., £15, March 1981,
The Impact of Victorian Children’s Fiction
by J.S. Bratton.
Croom Helm, 230 pp., £11.95, July 1981,0 07 099777 2 Show More
by J.S. Bratton.
Croom Helm, 230 pp., £11.95, July 1981,
Children’s Literature. Vol. IX
edited by Francelia Butler, Samuel Pickering, Milla Riggio and Barbara Rosen.
Yale, 241 pp., £17.35, March 1981,0 300 02623 4 Show More
edited by Francelia Butler, Samuel Pickering, Milla Riggio and Barbara Rosen.
Yale, 241 pp., £17.35, March 1981,
The ‘Signal’ Approach to Children’s Books
edited by Nancy Chambers.
Kestrel, 352 pp., £12.50, September 1980,0 7226 5641 6 Show More
edited by Nancy Chambers.
Kestrel, 352 pp., £12.50, September 1980,
“... Great Tradition. (‘The great children’s novelists,’ Inglis begins unequivocally, ‘are Lewis Carroll, Rudyard Kipling, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Arthur Ransome, William Mayne and Philippa Pearce.’) What they may be charged with is not treating this fact with the seriousness it deserves: not, indeed, considering even the possibility that it might ... ”