Pious Girls and Swearing Fathers
Patricia Craig, 1 June 1989
English Children and their Magazines 1751-1945
by Kirsten Drotner.
Yale, 272 pp., £16.95, January 1988,0 300 04010 5 Show More
by Kirsten Drotner.
Yale, 272 pp., £16.95, January 1988,
Frank Richards: The Chap behind the Chums
by Mary Cadogan.
Viking, 258 pp., £14.95, October 1988,0 670 81946 8 Show More
by Mary Cadogan.
Viking, 258 pp., £14.95, October 1988,
A History of Children’s Book Illustration
by Joyce IreneWhalley and Tessa Rose Chester.
Murray/Victoria and Albert Museum, 268 pp., £35, April 1988,0 7195 4584 6 Show More
by Joyce IreneWhalley and Tessa Rose Chester.
Murray/Victoria and Albert Museum, 268 pp., £35, April 1988,
Manchester Polytechnic Library of Children’s Books 1840-1939: ‘From Morality to Adventure’
by W.H. Shercliff.
Bracken Books/Studio Editions, 203 pp., £25, September 1988,0 901276 18 9 Show More
by W.H. Shercliff.
Bracken Books/Studio Editions, 203 pp., £25, September 1988,
Children’s Modern First Editions: Their Value to Collectors
by Joseph Connolly.
Macdonald, 336 pp., £17.95, October 1988,0 356 15741 5 Show More
by Joseph Connolly.
Macdonald, 336 pp., £17.95, October 1988,
“... they were always too busy keeping their skirts below the ankles’. All the idiosyncrasies in Whalley and Chester’s History of Children’s Book Illustration are in the pictures; the accompanying text is workmanlike, informative and plain. ‘Children may not alter,’ say the authors, ‘but their expectations may do so,’ and, no doubt, by the early ... ”
