Good Books
Marghanita Laski, 1 October 1981
The Promise of Happiness
by Fred Inglis.
Cambridge, 333 pp., £17.50, March 1981,0 521 23142 6 Show More
by Fred Inglis.
Cambridge, 333 pp., £17.50, March 1981,
The Child and the Book
by Nicholas Tucker.
Cambridge, 259 pp., £15, March 1981,0 521 23251 1 Show More
by Nicholas Tucker.
Cambridge, 259 pp., £15, March 1981,
The Impact of Victorian Children’s Fiction
by J.S. Bratton.
Croom Helm, 230 pp., £11.95, July 1981,0 07 099777 2 Show More
by J.S. Bratton.
Croom Helm, 230 pp., £11.95, July 1981,
Children’s Literature. Vol. IX
edited by Francelia Butler, Samuel Pickering, Milla Riggio and Barbara Rosen.
Yale, 241 pp., £17.35, March 1981,0 300 02623 4 Show More
edited by Francelia Butler, Samuel Pickering, Milla Riggio and Barbara Rosen.
Yale, 241 pp., £17.35, March 1981,
The ‘Signal’ Approach to Children’s Books
edited by Nancy Chambers.
Kestrel, 352 pp., £12.50, September 1980,0 7226 5641 6 Show More
edited by Nancy Chambers.
Kestrel, 352 pp., £12.50, September 1980,
“... theory, some thirty years ago, was when children’s books were in a doldrums that had lasted from just before the First World War till well after the Second. Though that forty-year gap was not entirely empty, it is odd to notice now how totally even its better books are ignored. All the books about children’s books reviewed here are worthy, honest and ... ”
