Children's Literature Review

by Peacock, Scot

• ISBN13: 9780787667825
• ISBN10: 078766782X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-08-01
• Publisher: Gale / Cengage Learning

Summary

This illustrated series covers more than 600 writers and illustrators for children and young adults, including such notable figures as Louisa May Alcott, Judy Blume, A. A. Milne, Walter Dean Myers and Maurice Sendak. Typical entries consist of a listing of major works and awards and criticism from significant reviews and commentaries on the author's or artist's works. Each volume includes cumulative author name and nationality indexes as well as a volume-specific title index. A cumulative titl index to the entire series is published separately.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Literary Criticism Series Advisory Board	p. xv
Virginia Hamilton 1927-2002	p. 1
Robin McKinley 1952-	p. 58
Katherine Paterson 1932-	p. 119
War in Children's Literature	p. 149
Introduction	p. 149
Representative Works	p. 150
Overviews and General Studies	p. 152
World Wars I and II in Children's Literature	p. 170
Other Presentations of War in Children's Literature	p. 186
Further Reading	p. 197
CLR Cumulative Author Index	p. 201
Literary Criticism Series Cumulative Topic Index	p. 223
CLR Cumulative Nationality Index	p. 237
CLR-127 Title Index	p. 243
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