Thursday's child: trends and patterns in contemporary children's literatureSketches the history of children's literature, looks at the genres of fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction, folklore, poetry, problem novels and picture books, and recommends specific works |
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Contents
Realistic Fiction | 31 |
The Problem Novel | 66 |
The New Fantasy | 80 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Thursday's child: trends and patterns in contemporary children's literature |
| Author | Sheila A. Egoff |
| Publisher | American Library Association, 1981 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 1 Apr 2008 |
| ISBN | 0838903274, 9780838903278 |
| Length | 323 pages |
| Subjects | › › Children Children's literature Children's literature History and criticism Children's literature/ History and criticism Children/ Books and reading/ United States Histoire et critique History and criticism Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / General Literary Criticism / Children's Literature Litterature de jeunesse |
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