Written for Children: An Outline of English-Language Children's Literature

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Overview:

Title: Written for Children: An Outline of English-Language Children's Literature
Author: John Rowe Townsend
Year: 1975
ISBN-10: 0397315287
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott
Price: $10.95
Pages: 368
Binding: Hardcover
Type: Non-fiction
Title Reference: Written for Children: An Outline of English-Language Children's Literature
Notes:
- Revised edition (much expanded) 1st ed. as "English-language" (c)1974 Bibliography, p342-49
- WorldCat (OCLC, below) -- lists Contents (4 parts) -- states "Revised edition, [First U.S. edition]" But there was a US ed. of the shorter 1st ed. (1965, as "English") in 1967, {{LCCN|70007188}}.
- Publication date from contemporary notice in Kirkus Reviews (see the nonfiction Title record).
- Cover/spine image from Amazon.com 2018-07-29, with "Look inside" the 6th US ed. (Scarecrow Press, 1996).
  
  The black line drawing is by {{a|Maurice Sendak}}, Where the Wild Things Are (1963); the white line drawing (woodcut?) is inscrutable, relying on the image from Amazon.