Pipers at the gates of dawn
Subtitle: the wisdom of children's literature
By: Jonathan Cott.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1983
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: Children's literature -- History and criticism -- Addresses, essays, lectures
Description: This book consists of six extraordinary creators of children's literature - Dr Seuss, Maurice Sendak, William Steig, Astrid Lindgren, Chinua Achebe, P.L. Travers, and with Lona and Peter Opie, the great contemporary scholars of children's lore, games, and language. In seven broad-ranging incisive essay-interviews, the author explores with these authors themselves the lives of their created characters and the characters of their own lives. Despite differences in nationality, generation, and gender, all share with Cott an impassioned sense of the richness, complexity, and lucidity of childhood, and of the enduring importance pf children's literature in the lives of all of us, the readers.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [303]-309.   Includes index.

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