Writers for children
Subtitle: critical studies of major authors since the seventeenth century
By: Jane M. Bingham, editor.
Contributors: Bingham, Jane.
Publisher: Scribner; Scribner's
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 661
Subjects: Children's literature -- History and criticism.
Description: " ... Eighty-four original critical essays, alphabetically arranged, with selected bibliographies, on writers ranging from Charles Perrault to Carol Ryrie Brink. ... The[se] authors ... have either written expressly for children (defined here as young people up to age sixteen), or their works have been appropriated by or relegated to young readers."--Introduction (p. xi).
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.