Reflections on literature for children / edited by Francelia Butler and Richard Rotert ; with a foreword by Leland B. Jacobs.
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Hamden, Conn. :
Library Professional Publications,
1984.
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Table of Contents:
- A note on story and a few stories for the very young. A note on story / James Hillman ; Some remarks on Raggedy Ann and Johnny Gruelle / Martin Williams ; Child reading and man reading : Oz, Babar, and Pooh / Roger Sale ; Back to Pooh Corner / Alison Lurie ; Prickles under the frock : the art of Beatrix Potter / Seth Sicroff
- Some meanings in children's literature. Notes on the waist-high culture / John Seelye ; On writing for children / Isaac Bashevis Singer ; On not writing for children / P.L. Travers ; Webs of concern : The little prince and Charlotte's web / Laurence Gagnon ; Death in children's literature / Francelia Butler
- Poetry can say it best. The evolution of the Pied Piper / Bernard Queenan ; The sane, the mad, the good, the bad : T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's book of practical cats / Marion C. Hodge ; Over the garden wall, I let the baby fall : the poetry of rope-skipping / Francelia Butler ; Breaking chains : Brother Blue, storyteller / John Cech
- Some extraordinary writers and their characters ; Aesop as litmus : the acid test of children's literature / Robert G. Miner ; Pinocchio : archetype of the motherless child / James W. Heisig ; An unpublished children's story by George MacDonald / Glenn Edward Sadler ; Mr. Ruskin and Miss Greenaway / Michael Patrick Hearn ; Reflections on Little women / Anne Hollander ; Tradition and the talent of Frances Hodgson Burnett : Little Lord Fauntleroy, A little princess, and The secret garden / Phyllis Bixler Koppes ; The sea dream : Peter Pan and Treasure Island / Kathleen Blake ; E. Nesbit's Well Hall, 1915-1921 : a memoir / Joan Evans de Alonso ; An epic in Arcadia : the pastoral world of The wind in the willows / Geraldine D. Poss ; Narnia : the author, the critics, and the tale / Walter Hooper ; Maurice Sendak and the Blakean vision of childhood / Jennifer R. Waller ; Harriet the Spy : milestone, masterpiece? / Virginia L. Wolf.