Pious Girls and Swearing Fathers
Patricia Craig, 1 June 1989
English Children and their Magazines 1751-1945
by Kirsten Drotner.
Yale, 272 pp., £16.95, January 1988,0 300 04010 5 Show More
by Kirsten Drotner.
Yale, 272 pp., £16.95, January 1988,
Frank Richards: The Chap behind the Chums
by Mary Cadogan.
Viking, 258 pp., £14.95, October 1988,0 670 81946 8 Show More
by Mary Cadogan.
Viking, 258 pp., £14.95, October 1988,
A History of Children’s Book Illustration
by Joyce Irene Whalley and Tessa Rose Chester.
Murray/Victoria and Albert Museum, 268 pp., £35, April 1988,0 7195 4584 6 Show More
by Joyce Irene Whalley and Tessa Rose Chester.
Murray/Victoria and Albert Museum, 268 pp., £35, April 1988,
Manchester Polytechnic Library of Children’s Books 1840-1939: ‘From Morality to Adventure’
by W.H. Shercliff.
Bracken Books/Studio Editions, 203 pp., £25, September 1988,0 901276 18 9 Show More
by W.H. Shercliff.
Bracken Books/Studio Editions, 203 pp., £25, September 1988,
Children’s Modern First Editions: Their Value to Collectors
by Joseph Connolly.
Macdonald, 336 pp., £17.95, October 1988,0 356 15741 5 Show More
by Joseph Connolly.
Macdonald, 336 pp., £17.95, October 1988,
“... on a Sunday, or coveting a pear), as likely as not, comes the deathbed scene – however, Kirsten Drotner tells us, pictures of dying children were sometimes juxtaposed with elephants and giraffes, presumably to keep readers’ spirits from subsiding altogether. Not that all fictional children were seen as wilful – on the contrary, the ... ”
