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: 1992
- ISBN-10: 0064461254
- Publisher: HarperTrophy
- Price: $12.95
- Pages: xii+372
- Binding: Trade Paperback
- Type: Non-fiction
- Title Reference: Written for Children: An Outline of English-Language Children's Literature
- Notes:
- • 4th rev. ed. (4th revision, 5th version of the text) • "25th anniversary edition." This is a US edition of all that, apparently the earliest. • Updated through 1989 --OCLC 25630220 • (c)1990 expected UK eds. of the 1st and 5th versions were first published in 1965 and 1990, US eds. in 1967 and 1992.
- 1st HarperTrophy ed. Some records reports "1st Harper Trophy" with spaced imprint name but library records (4 cited below) report publisher "HarperTrophy"--as expected from other database records after 1991.
- Illustrators presumably numerous "A survey [... with] "illustrations from many of the classics of children's literature through 1989" --OCLC 25630220
- Bibliography, p336-46 The WorldCat summary, OCLC 25630220, specifies "a bibliography of works on children's literature".