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About The Cambridge Guide To Children's Books In English
From School Library Journal This is a useful reference tool, and a great browsing item, too. The focus is on children's books, not children's literature-or strictly literary works. Coverage includes drama, television, comics, children's annuals, adventure game books, and a range of media texts. The author states: "-I have tried, with the help of my advisory Editors, to do justice to the increasing and impressive range of successful children's books produced in [the U.S., Britain,] Canada, Australia, New Zealand, West and East Africa and India; and to the exciting and extraordinary renaissances in children's books that are currently taking place-for different reasons-in Ireland and South Africa." Entries include authors, titles, topics, periodicals, editors, and librarians and are as varied as the "Nancy Drew series," the "Goosebumps series," and more extensive articles on informational books, fairy tales, and folktales and legends. The essay on "neglected works" is a concise piece on children's writers whose works are "now largely forgotten; a book's excellence is no guarantee of its survival." "Sex in children's books" provides insight into the changes in literature for young people. While this may not be an essential item for most collections, district libraries will want it. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Product Description The Cambridge Guide to Children's Books is an alphabetized reference work providing a critical and appreciative overview of children's books written in English worldwide. It is not a guide to "children's literature" but has a wider task--to include any author, or illustrator, or work, believed by the editors to have made a significant impact on young readers, or to have in some way influenced the development of children's books. In addition to the long-established traditions of children's writing from Great Britain and the USA, the Guide covers the increasing range of successful children's books produced in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, West Africa, and India; and the exciting renaissance in children's books currently taking place in Ireland and South Africa. Reflecting the developing scholarly appreciation for the history of children's books, The Guide gives due weight to children's books from pre-Norman times, and acknowledges recent developments in publishing practices and in children's own reading. Victor Watson is Assistant Director of Research, Homerton College, University of Cambridge. He has edited several volumes about children's literature, including Opening the Nursery Door (Routledge, 1997) and Where Texts and Children Meet (Routledge, 2000). From Library Journal This well-crafted encyclopedia is an A-to-Z reference of children's books written in English from pre-Norman to current times. The countries covered include not only the United States and England but also Ireland, Australia, Africa, India, and others. The work contains four major types of entries: authors, titles, topics (e.g., school stories, fairy tales), and technical terms. It also includes awards, periodicals, and notable non-author/illustrator figures (e.g., librarians), but as these are not cross-indexed they cannot be easily located. The types of media covered include a broad range of children's literature as well as such formats as television, comics, and adventure-game books. The entries on authors and titles are very well done and in most cases quite exhaustive, but the topic entries are what make this work so valuable. Covering such areas as drugs in children's books, illustrations, publishing and publishers, lithography, movable books, neglected authors, superheroes, and a cross-cultural look at folktales and myths, the entries are all thoughtful, detailed, and illuminating. Many cover the history of their subject from the earliest appearance to modern publications, giving a depth that is often lacking in other reference works. Watson is an assistant director of research, Homerton College, Camb
