| Description |
xvi, 529 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Literature resource center |
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Literature resource center
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| Contents |
Joan Aiken -- Louisa May Alcott -- Lloyd Alexander -- Harry Allard -- Edward Ardizzone -- William H. Armstrong -- Natalie Babbitt -- J.M. Barrie -- L. Frank Baum -- Nina Bawden -- John Bellairs -- Ludwig Bemelmans -- Margery Williams Bianco -- Judy Blume -- Michael Bond -- Lucy M. Boston -- Carol Ryrie Brink -- Walter R. Brooks -- Anthony Browne -- Robert Burch -- Frances Hodgson Burnett -- Sheila Burnford -- Virginia Lee Burton -- Betsy Byars -- Eleanor Cameron -- Lewis Carroll -- John Christopher -- Beverly Cleary -- C. Collodi -- Susan Coolidge -- Barbara Cooney -- Susan Cooper -- Helen Cresswell -- Julia Cunningham -- Roald Dahl -- Paula Danziger -- Jean de Brunhoff -- Meindert deJong -- Tomie dePaola -- Franklin W. Dixon -- Mary Mapes Dodge -- William Péne du Bois -- Roger Duvoisin -- Edward Eager -- Eleanor Estes -- Walter Farley -- Louise Fitzhugh -- Sid Fleischman -- Paula Fox -- Don Freeman -- Leon Garfield -- Alan Garner -- Jean Craighead George -- Fred Gipson -- Rumer Godden -- Kenneth Grahame -- Constance C. Greene -- Virginia Hamilton -- Russell Hoban -- Mary Hoffman -- James Houston -- James Howe -- Monica Hughes -- Shirley Hughes -- Mollie Hunter -- Pat Hutchins -- Tove Jansson -- Randall Jarrell -- Norton Juster -- Ezra Jack Keats -- Carolyn Keene -- Charles Kingsley -- Dick King-Smith -- Rudyard Kipling -- E.L. Konigsburg -- Gordon Korman -- Robert Kraus -- Joseph Krumgold |
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Robert Lawson -- Munro Leaf -- Madeleine L'Engle -- C.S. Lewis -- Astrid Lindgren -- Leo Lionni -- Penelope Lively -- Arnold Lobel -- Hugh Lofting -- Lois Lowry -- George MacDonald -- Patricia MacLachlan -- Margaret Mahy -- Mercer Mayer -- Robert McCloskey -- Patricia C. McKissack -- A.A. Milne -- Else Holmelund Minarik -- Mrs. Molesworth -- L.M. Montgomery -- Robert Munsch -- E. Nesbit -- Evaline Ness -- Mary Norton -- Robert C. O'Brien -- Scott O'Dell -- Peggy Parish -- Katherine Paterson -- Jill Paton Walsh -- Gary Paulsen -- Philippa Pearce -- Robert Newton Peck -- Eleanor H. Porter -- Beatrix Potter -- Arthur Ransome -- Ellen Raskin -- Lynne Reid Banks -- H.A. Rey -- Mordecai Richler -- Mary Rodgers -- John Ruskin -- Cynthia Ryland -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry -- George Selden -- Maurice Sendak -- Dr. Seuss -- Anna Sewell -- Margery Sharp -- Zilpha Keatley Snyder -- Donald J. Sobol -- Elizabeth George Speare -- Armstrong Sperry -- Jerry Spinelli -- Johanna Spyri -- William Steig -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Sydney Taylor -- Theodore Taylor -- J.R.R. Tolkien -- P.L. Travers -- Brinton Turkle -- Mark Twain -- Chris Van Allsburg -- Bernard Waber -- Lynd Ward -- E.B. White -- T.H. White -- Kate Douglas Wiggin -- Laura Ingalls Wilder -- Maia Wojciechowska -- Patricia Wrightson -- Johann David Wyss -- Taro Yashima -- Jane Yolen |
| Summary |
Contains critical introductions to over 1700 characters from 230 works of children's literature from Canada, Great Britain, the United States, and Australia |
| Analysis |
Characters and characteristics in literature |
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Children -- Books and reading |
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Childreǹs literature -- Book reviews |
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Childreǹs literature -- Stories, plots, etc |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Original 529 p |
| Subject |
Characters and characteristics in literature.
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Children -- Books and reading.
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Children's literature -- Stories, plots, etc.
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Children's literature -- Book reviews.
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| Genre/Form |
Plot summaries.
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| LC no. |
97004999 |
| ISBN |
0787604003 (alk. paper) |
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