International Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature
Holmes, A.C. (1966) A Study of Understanding of Visual Symbols in Kenya, London: OVAC. Jafa, M. (1991) ‘Children’s literature an ...
58 British Children’s Literature: A Historical Overview John Rowe Townsend The modern history of children’s books in Britain is ...
The other branch of children’s-literature prehistory is instructional: school books, courtesy books (which told children how to ...
Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719) and Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726). All three incorporate archetypal story themes whi ...
approximately half of them date from before 1700; some are much older.) There was also verse used as an aid to memory, or to swe ...
Fairy Tale, Fantasy and Adventure In the early nineteenth century, the output of books for children continued to grow, but empha ...
Walter Scott, Fenimore Cooper and others, crossed over to children’s literature with the children’s books of Captain Marryat in ...
Poems and Pictures Nineteenth-century verse for children begins with the innocuous but long-remembered verses of Ann and Jane Ta ...
Other memorable books of the two decades did not set clear trends. Hugh Lofting’s Dr Dolittle series, beginning in 1922 and orig ...
drawn from a broader stratum, the class divide in the books themselves has become less visible. But in spite of all efforts the ...
toy soldiers of the young Brontës. At the other end of the scale of size were the imagined secondary worlds, greatly stimulated ...
there are the Roald Dahl books, immensely popular but disliked by many commentators for an underlying unpleasantness and appeal ...
by, a fall in the numbers of good new writers. The wealth of talent that had emerged in the third quarter of the century was not ...
59 Scotland Stuart Hannabuss Scotland has a distinctive place in the history and development of British children’s literature. P ...
those published by James Orr of Glasgow in 1800 and by Blackie in 1820. Two of Isaac Watts’s works had been translated into Gael ...
interesting children’s books. One of the themes of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Scots Quair trilogy (especially Sunset Song, 1932) is ...
and Fionnlagh Macleoid. A few, like Lisa Storey, are publishers in their own right: Storey’s Inverness-based Leabhraichean Beaga ...
60 Wales Menna Lloyd Williams It is believed that the first Welsh language book for children was Anrheg i Blant (1816), a transl ...
ac Olwen, Lleuad yn Olau, Llyfr Hwiangerddi y Dref Wen have been published. In 1979, the Welsh arts Council established, with th ...
In 1985, the Mary Vaughan Jones award was established and is available for presentation every three years to a person who has ma ...
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