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Edited by one of the leading scholars in children s literature studies, this highly entertaining and scholarly anthology features over 120 complete works, poems, stories, and extracts from novels. Includes over 120 complete works, poems, stories and extracts from novels. Provides an entertaining and scholarly view of the development of children s literature in the UK and the USA, with representative pieces from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Includes both famous books and poems, as well as less well-known but fascinating examples. Features a bibliography of the best critical and historical secondary sources.…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Edited by one of the leading scholars in children s literature studies, this highly entertaining and scholarly anthology features over 120 complete works, poems, stories, and extracts from novels.
Includes over 120 complete works, poems, stories and extracts from novels.
Provides an entertaining and scholarly view of the development of children s literature in the UK and the USA, with representative pieces from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Includes both famous books and poems, as well as less well-known but fascinating examples.
Features a bibliography of the best critical and historical secondary sources.
Autorenporträt
Peter Hunt is Professor of English at the University of Wales, Cardiff. He has written 11 books and over 200 articles on children's literature. Among his most recent books are the International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature (1996), Children's Literature (Blackwell, 2001) and Children's Literature: An Illustrated History (1995).
Rezensionen
"Children s literature has a rich tradition and this carefully selected anthology demonstrates its strength and variety very well." Reference Reviews

"Boys stories, fairy stories, moral and educational tales, nonsense poems, tall stories and fantasy - this new anthology of children s literature covers a full range of nineteenth-century texts including a good selection of unfamiliar works from the United States, Canada and Australia." TLS