Children and Their Books: A Celebration of the Work of Iona and Peter Opie

Book Overview

This extensively illustrated collection of essays by twenty leading scholars explores a wide range of topics from the behavior of children in early modern England and the development of French fairy tales and nursery rhymes, to the work of classic authors such as Lewis Carroll, Kenneth Grahame, Beatrix Potter, and J.R.R. Tolkien, and some of the diaries and magazines written by children themselves. The contributors include Brian Alderson, Gillian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198122535
• ISBN13: 9780198122531
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.5"