Children and Their Books
Published on 1. October 1989
Book
Hardback
440 pages
978-0-19-812991-2 (ISBN)
Description
Published in aid of the Opie Appeal, this volume contains a collection of essays by distinguished scholars, including Keith Thomas, Humphrey Carpenter, Barbara Everett and John Bayley. Subjects range from the history of children's literature to the great children's writers and illustrators of the 19th and 20th centuries. It has been assembled as a tribute to the achievement of Iona and Peter Opie in enriching the lives of children through their study of nursery rhymes, games and fairy tales. There is a foreward by Iona Opie and an introduction which describes the great Opie collection of children's books.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
45 half-tones, index
ISBN-13
978-0-19-812991-2 (9780198129912)
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Content
Collecting children's books - self-indulgence and scholarship, Brian Alderson; selections from the accession diaries of Peter Opie, Clive Hurst; children in early modern England, Keith Thomas; a child prophet - Martha Hatfield as "The Wise Virgin", Nigel Smith; the Puritans and their heirs, Gillian Avery; the origins of the early fairy tale for children or how script was used to tame the beast in us, Jack Zipes; "Malbrouk s'en va-t-en guerre" or how history reaches the nursery, Giles Barber; William Godwin as children's bookseller, William St Clair; Dodgson, Carroll and the emancipation of Alice, John Batchelor; Arthur Hughes as illustrator for children, Kate Flint; women writers and writing for children - from Sarah Fielding to E.Nesbit, Julia Briggs; E.Nesbit and "The Book of Dragons", Wallace Robson; excessively impertinent bunnies - the subversive element in Beatrix Potter, Humphrey Carpenter; "The Wind in the Willows" - the vitality of a classic, Neil Philip; Henry James' children, Barbara Everett; the child in Walter de la Mare, John Bayley; Tolkien's great war, Hugh Brogan; William Mayne, Alison Lurie; children's diaries, A.O.J.Cockshut; children's manuscript magazines in the Bodleian Library, Olivia and Alan Bell.