Historical dictionary of children's literature /
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| Author / Creator: | O'Sullivan, Emer, 1957- |
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| Imprint: | Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2010. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xxix, 341 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Historical dictionaries of literature and the arts ; no. 46 Historical dictionaries of literature and the arts ; no. 46. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11234406 |
| Summary: | Children's literature comes from a number of different sources-folklore (folk- and fairy tales), books originally for adults and subsequently adapted for children, and material authored specifically for them-and its audience ranges from infants through middle graders to young adults (readers from about 12 to 18 years old). Its forms include picturebooks, pop-up books, anthologies, novels, merchandising tie-ins, novelizations, and multimedia texts, and its genres include adventure stories, drama, science fiction, poetry, and information books.<br> <br> The Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature relates the history of children's literature through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, a bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, books, and genres. Some of the most legendary names in all of literature are covered in this important reference, including Hans Christian Anderson, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens, C.S. Lewis, Beatrix Potter, J.K. Rowling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jules Verne, and E.B. White. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxix, 341 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780810874961 0810874962 9780810860803 0810860805 1282922270 9781282922273 9786612922275 6612922273 |