Children's Literature Review

by Blanchard, Rebecca J.

• ISBN13: 9780787651183
• ISBN10: 0787651184
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• 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	vii
Acknowledgments	xi
Literary Criticism Series Advisory Board	xiii
G. A. Henty 1832-1902	1	(44)
English journalist and author of children's historical and adventure novels.
Tana Hoban c. 1917-	45	(16)
American author and illustrator of children's books.
Dean Hughes 1943-	61	(18)
American author of novels for grade-school through middle school audiences.
Robert Lipsyte 1938-	79	(29)
American journalist and author of young adult fiction and nonfiction.
Petra Mathers 1945-	108	(28)
German-born American author and illustrator of picture books.
William Nicholson 1872-1949	136	(8)
English painter and illustrator of children s books.
Talbot Baines Reed 1852-1893	144	(42)
English author of boys' novels.
Jenny Seed 1930-	186	(9)
South African novelist and folklorist.
CLR Cumulative Author Index	195	(18)
CLR Cumulative Nationality Index	213	(6)
CLR Cumulative Title Index	219