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Print Price: $30.50

Format:
Paperback
704 pp.
129 mm x 196 mm

ISBN-13:
9780198715542

Publication date:
February 2017

Imprint: OUP UK


Oxford Companion to Children's Literature

Second Edition

Daniel Hahn

Readership : General readership, particularly students and teachers of children's literature, librarians, teachers, collectors, and parents.

Reviews

  • Review from previous edition: "a wonderful book ... deserves to become a classic"

    --The Economist

  • "It is written with a lightness of touch exactly suited to its subject, and with an instinct for selecting the most human and interesting facts about children's books and their authors"

    --Iona Opie

  • "invaluable ... it is hard to imagine a more needed or attractive companion"

    --School Library Journal

  • "a substantial achievement"

    --Times Literary Supplement

  • "a treasure chest which everyone seriously interested in children's literature will want to own"

    -- Children's Literature Association Quarterly

  • "a treasure trove of information on the stories behind the stories and the people behind the pen names"

    --Folio Books

Foreword
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
A to Z of Children's Literature
List of Prizes and Prizewinners

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Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor, and translator, with some fourty books to his name. With Leonie Flynn and Susan Reuben he has edited the award-winning Ultimate Book Guide series of reading guides for children and teenagers. He is on the board of a number of organizations that deal with literature and free speech.

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Special Features

  • Over 3,500 authoritative and accessible entries on every aspect of children's literature, covering authors, illustrators, works, characters, genres, and much more. From Mark Haddon to Harry Potter, Raymond Briggs to Maurice Sendak, and Douglas Adams to The Gruffalo.
  • Features entries on English-language authors, works, and illustrators from the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, as well as the UK and Ireland.
  • Coverage of non-English-language authors, whose works exist in English translation, including Timothee de Fombelle, Cornelia Funke, and Astrid Lindgren.
  • Useful lists of children's literature prizes and prizewinners.