Thirteen-year-old Lee Hartwell notices his family and the world changing dramatically around him, after a woman he has known all his life is wrongly accused of a crime and his lawyer father defends her case, causing racial tensions in the town to boil over. Reprint. AB. LJ. PW.

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.

Product Description: While there are many books about children's literature, few discuss it within its social context or investigate the ways writers reflect or react to change in society. Dennis Butts explores how shifting attitudes and historical upheavals from the 1840s onwards affected and continue to affect books written for younger audiences...read more

Taken from speakers at the 1999 Children's Books History Society study conference, this collection of essays analyses the children's literature of the Religious Tract Society. It details the nature and development of the tract genre in Britain and in the US, before looking at the Religious Tract Society's increasing number of children's titles.

Product Description: H. Rider Haggard clearly displays his wonderfully dramatic imagination, combined with his deep knowledge of Africa, in King Solomon's Mines, which recounts the adventures of Allan Quartermain, Sir Henry Curtis, and Captain John Good...read more

Product Description: Barbara Hofland (1770-1844) was an early 19th-century writer of children's books, the details of whose lives and works are almost forgetten. Yet the problems of her life - left a young widow and unhappily remarried to an impoverished artist - gave her the materials and insights into life which she used in her books...read more

Product Description: Along with Frances Hodgson Burnett's other great work, Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Secret Garden stands as one of the most successful children's novels ever written. This is the only annotated edition available and the first to treat the novel as a serious work of literature...read more

Product Description: Children's literature did not suddenly appear as if by magic. It came into existence in printed form in the 18th century, though religious and instructional books had appeared earlier, and grew to fruition in Britain and America in the 19th century because of quite specific developments in society...read more