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- ISBN 9781538177822
- Weight: 1280g
- Dimensions: 156 x 232mm
- Publication Date: 22 Jan 2025
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Elizabeth Goodenough has taught at Harvard, Claremont McKenna, and the University of Michigan’s Residential College, School of Education, and School of Information. Her books include Secret Spaces of Childhood (University of Michigan Press); Under Fire: Childhood in the Shadow of War; and Infant Tongues: The Voice of the Child in Literature (Wayne State University Press). She helped produce the award-winning PBS documentary, Where Do the Children Play? and authored companion volumes A Study Guide to the Film and A Place for Play. A recent member of the Children’s Literature Association’s critical book and Phoenix Award committees, she now serves on the advisory boards of The Michigan Quarterly Review and the Max Courage Curriculum.
Marilynn S. Olson has been professor and director of Advanced Studies in English at Texas State University. She was associate editor and then editor of the Children’s Literature Association Quarterly from 1991-2000; her recent book (2012) is Children’s Culture and the Avant-Garde: Painting in Paris 1890-1915. Recent chapters include “John Ruskin and the Mutual Influences of Children’s Literature and the Avant-Garde” for Elina Druker and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer’s Children’s Literature and the Avant-Garde (2015) and “Art History and the Picturebook” for the Routledge Companion to the Picturebook (2018). Olson has also co-authored a number of articles on astronomy, art, and literature with her husband, Donald Olson.
