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,
“... The easy truism, that a good children’s book is a book that’s good for children too, has enough truth in it to ensure that most fiction reviewers are at least open to the genre. But unless we specialise in children’s fiction, the current literary theory about it is likely to interest only some and only at specific times: those of parenthood and of grandparenthood ... ”
