For her gorgeously illustrated and deeply researched contribution to the prestigious Grolier Hundred series, Chris Loker has assembled one hundred of the best known and most admired childrens books from the English language canon of classics. Organized chronologically, One Hundred Books Famous in Childrens Literature invites readers to follow the development of books written for children and printed between 1650 and 2000from early forms of instructional primers and devotional readers, to exuberantly entertaining nursery rhymes, fairy tales, childrens novels and works of verse. Also represented are alphabets, folktales, fables, and legends; a touch-and-feel book, a rebus book, a pop-up book, and, of course, picture books. Supplementing the informative essays that accompany each selection are illuminating contributions by five internationally recognized experts in childrens literature: Brian Alderson, Nick Clark, Andrea Immel, Jill Shefrin, and Justin Schiller. This charming and intellectually stimulating volume, accessibly written to appeal to both scholars and the general public, has quickly become the classic checklist for book collectors, scholars, and anyone who loves childrens literature.
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Dimensions: 8 x 11mm
Publication Date: 15 Jul 2015
Publisher: Grolier Club of New York
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781605830605
About Brian W. AldersonChris LokerJill ShefrinJustin G. Schiller
Chris Loker is a curator collector and antiquarian bookseller and the author of several books for children and about children's literature. Jill Shefrin is a bibliographer of childrens books and printed ephemera and a historian of childrens education. Brian Alderson is the author of many books on childrens literature and was the childrens book editor for the Times of London for more than twenty years. H. Nichols Clark is the founding director and chief curator of the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst MA. Andrea Immel is curator of the Cotsen Childrens Library at Princeton University and the coeditor of The Cambridge Companion to Childrens Literature. Justin Schiller is the author of Realms of Childhood: 200 Important Historical Childrens Books and Related Drawings.