The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature
- ISBN-10
- 0198602286
- ISBN-13
- 9780198602286
- Series
- The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 586
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press on Demand
- Authors
- Humphrey Carpenter, Mari Prichard
Description
A comprehensive survey of children's literature features almost two thousand entries encompassing biographical sketches of authors, illustrators, printers, and publishers, as well as essays on the different genres, fictional characters and printing proces
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- 2015-03-26
- 704 pages
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- Oxford University Press, USA
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