The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature
by Humphrey Carpenter, Mari Prichard
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Humphrey Carpenter is the award-winning author of biographies of Dennis Potter, J.R.R. Tolkien, W.H. Auden, and Ezra Pound. He broadcasts regularly on BBC radio. Carpenter is married with two children and lives in Oxford, England
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- Original title
- The Oxford companion to children's literature
- Original publication date
- 1984
- Epigraph
- [None]
- Dedication
- Dedicated to the memory of Peter Opie (1918-1982)
- First words
- In November 1958 Iona and Peter Opie proposed to their publishers, the Oxford University Press, a work to follow their book The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren, which was then complete and due out the following yea... (show all)r.
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AaB, see GREAT A, LITTLE A, BOUNCING B. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)This book has been much praised by opponents of SEXISM in children's literature.
- Blurbers
- Opie, Iona
- Original language
- English
Classifications
- Genres
- Literature Studies and Criticism, Children's Books, Reference, Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 809.89282 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism History, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures By or for groups of persons Cultural theory of the literature of social groups Children's literature
- LCC
- PN1008.5 .C37 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Literary history Juvenile literature
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