Children's Books in England: Five Centuries of Social LifeWith literature as his central theme, the author of this history of children's books in England also wove in biography and facts of social and commercial history. This edition has additional biographical notes, a supplementary chapter on the late Victorian and Edwardian eras and 60 illustrations. |
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... children's book ' had not yet become clear and logical . L'Estrange had tried , with some success , to see the child's standpoint , but he could not get away from the fact that fables are almost inevitably a vehicle of emphatic morals ...
... children's book ' had not yet become clear and logical . L'Estrange had tried , with some success , to see the child's standpoint , but he could not get away from the fact that fables are almost inevitably a vehicle of emphatic morals ...
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... Child's Weeks - work : or , a Little Book , so nicely suited to the Genius and Capacity of a Little Child . . . that it will infallibly Allure and Lead him on into a Way of Reading . It was published in Little Britain in 1712 , by ...
... Child's Weeks - work : or , a Little Book , so nicely suited to the Genius and Capacity of a Little Child . . . that it will infallibly Allure and Lead him on into a Way of Reading . It was published in Little Britain in 1712 , by ...
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... Child's Garden of Verses contains its warranty and a criticism of itself in its title . It is a garden , full of natural flowers growing from wind - borne seeds . It is a child's garden . Metrically , its verse is deliciously modulated ...
... Child's Garden of Verses contains its warranty and a criticism of itself in its title . It is a garden , full of natural flowers growing from wind - borne seeds . It is a child's garden . Metrically , its verse is deliciously modulated ...
Contents
An Introductory Survey I | 1 |
i Fables | 9 |
ii Romance and Manners | 32 |
Copyright | |
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Adventures advertised Aesop Alice amusement appeared artist Beatrix Potter bibliography BOOK LIST bookseller Boy's Own Paper boys catalogue century chapbook chapter child children's books children's literature collection coloured copy Crusoe E. V. Lucas early Edgeworth edition editor Elizabeth Newbery England English engravings Fables fact Fairy fairy-tales famous fiction firm George Gesta Romanorum girls Godwin Harris Harvey illustrations invented John Newbery juvenile kind known Lamb later Lewis Carroll Library literary lived London magazine Maria Edgeworth Mary meant mind Moral Tale Mother natural never Newbery's Nursery Rhymes original Parley perhaps period persons Peter poems poetry popular printed probably produced published Puritan readers reprint Robin Robinson romance Sherwood Society Songs St Paul's story Talbot Baines Reed Taylor things Thomas trade translated Trimmer verse Victorian vols volume William Darton words writers wrote young
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International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature Peter Hunt,Sheila G. Bannister Ray No preview available - 1996 |
Een geschiedenis van het jeugdtheater: de ontwikkeling van het kindbeeld in ... Ton Panken No preview available - 1998 |