Product Description: Edited by one of the leading scholars in children's literature studies, this highly entertaining and scholarly anthology features over 120 complete works, poems, stories, and extracts from novels. Includes over 120 complete works, poems, stories and extracts from novels...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book offers a systematic introduction to some of the essential concepts necessary for the study of childrens literature. Incorporating thirteen essays from the highly-acclaimed International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature , the chapters guide the reader through the most relevant areas of criticism and theory and summarise their contexts and application...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A collection for children includes simplified prose retellings of 'Romeo and Juliet,' 'Hamlet,' 'The Merchant of Venice,' 'Othello,' 'The Tempest,' 'King Lear,' 'Macbeth,' 'As You Like It,' 'Twelfth Night,' and 'The Winter's Tale.' Reprint. AB. PW. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Passionately enjoyed as much by the young as by adults, children's literature is a vital part of Western culture. Attracting increasing scholarly attention, its indelible influences on most people's psyche attest to its widespread importance...read more

An eclectic, extensively illustrated history of children's literature in English journeys from early hornbooks and classical translations, through nonsense rhymes and fairy tales, to present-day multimedia comic books and computer-based interactive adventures. UP.

Analyzes the work within the context of author Kenneth Grahame's changing English society, and discusses its dual appeal to children and adults

Product Description: An account of the life and a critical examination of the works of Ransome (1884-1967), considered the father of modern British children's literature. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Product Description: How do you define children's literature? Can its study be justified? Are conventional critical approaches appropriate? In a collection of articles, the author shows how the criticism of children's literature has developed.