num_pages: 208
description: Edited by Morag Styles and written by an interational team of acknowledged experts, this series provides jargon-free, critical discussion and a comprehensive guide to literary and popular texts for children. Each book introduces the reader to a major genre of children's literature, covering key authors, major works and contexts in which those texts are published. Margaret Meek and Victor Watson provide a profound and revealing examiniation of the treatment of personal development, maturation and rites of passage in literature written for children and adolescents. Including a broad survey of the theme across a number of genres and an in-depth analysis of the work of key writers, the authors work towards an answer to the question "What is a classic?"
language: English
title: Coming Of Age In Children's Literature: Growth And Maturity In The Work Of Phillippa Pearce, Cynthia Voigt And Jan Mark
titlecomplete: Coming Of Age In Children's Literature: Growth And Maturity In The Work Of Phillippa Pearce, Cynthia Voigt And Jan Mark (Contemporary Classics in Children's Literature)
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group