Beatrix Potter to Harry Potter

by Eccleshare, Julia

• ISBN13: 9781855143425
• ISBN10: 1855143429
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: Natl Portrait Gallery Pubns

Summary

Children's authors enchant, educate and endure. From Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit and the charming adventures of A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Po1855145073

Author Biography

Julia Eccleshare is Children's Book Editor for the Guardian.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. 6
Foreword	p. 7
Introduction	p. 8
1900-1920
Beatrix Potter	p. 11
J. M. Barrie	p. 14
E. Nesbit	p. 16
Angela Brazil	p. 18
Frank Richards	p. 20
Kenneth Grahame	p. 22
Frances Hodgson Burnett	p. 24
Hugh Lofting	p. 26
Mary Tourtel	p. 28
Searching for security	p. 30
1920 & 1930s
A. A. Milne	p. 33
Richmal Crompton	p. 36
Henry Williamson	p. 38
Arthur Ransome	p. 40
P. L. Travers	p. 42
Captain W. E. Johns	p. 44
Edward Ardizzone	p. 46
Noel Streatfeild	p. 48
J. R. R. Tolkien	p. 50
Kathleen Hale	p. 52
1940s & 1950s
Enid Blyton	p. 55
Diana Ross	p. 58
The Revd W. V. Awdry	p. 60
Anthony Buckeridge	p. 62
C. S. Lewis	p. 64
Mary Norton	p. 66
Rosemary Sutcliff	p. 68
William Mayne	p. 70
Dodie Smith	p. 72
Michael Bond	p. 74
Philippa Pearce	p. 76
Whose book is it anyway?	p. 78
1960s & 1970s
Roald Dahl	p. 81
Ted Hughes	p. 84
Oliver Postgate	p. 86
Leon Garfield	p. 88
Richard Adams	p. 90
Nina Bawden	p. 92
Josephine, Christine and Diana Pullein-Thompson	p. 94
Raymond Briggs	p. 96
Joan Aiken	p. 98
1980s & 1990s
J. K. Rowling	p. 101
Quentin Blake	p. 104
Michael Rosen	p. 106
Dick King-Smith	p. 108
Janet and Allan Ahlberg	p. 110
Anne Fine	p. 112
Shirley Hughes	p. 114
Michael Morpurgo	p. 116
John Agard and Grace Nichols	p. 118
Jacqueline Wilson	p. 120
Malorie Blackman	p. 122
Philip Pullman	p. 124
Benjamin Zephaniah	p. 126
Jamila Gavin	p. 128
Children's changing expectations	p. 130
Bibliography	p. 132
Index	p. 134
Picture credits	p. 136
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