Written for Children: An Outline of English-language Children's LiteratureA readable, stimulating, chronological account of the development of children's books from the mid-nineteenth century. The book was previously revised to include children's literature in the US and Commonwealth as well as a critical analysis of poetry and picture books alongside fiction. In this edition, John Rowe Townsend has further extended the scope to include works from major modern authors illustrators, such as; Raymond Briggs, Susan Cooper and Michael Foreman, Gillian Cross, Janni Howker, Jill Paton Walsh, William Mayne, Rosemary Sutcliff and Robert Swindells. WRITTEN FOR CHILDREN is a beautifully illustrated, calm, clear entertaining and often challenging appraisal of English Language children's literature. GUARDIAN |
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