Limit search to available items
Book Cover
Book
Author Townsend, John Rowe.

Title A sense of story : essays on contemporary writers for children / John Rowe Townsend
Published London : Longman, 1971

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'PONDS  809.99282 T7485/S  AVAILABLE
Description 215 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Joan Aiken -- L.M. Boston -- H.F. Brinsmead -- John Christopher -- Helen Cresswell -- Meindert DeJong -- Eleanor Estes -- Paula Fox -- Leon Garfield -- Alan Garner -- Madeleine L'Engle -- William Mayne -- Andre Norton -- Scott O'Dell -- Philippa Pearce -- K.M. Peyton -- Ivan Southall -- Rosemary Sutcliff -- Patricia Wrightson
Summary This book is an introduction to the work of nineteen leading English-language writers for children. It mixes American, British and Australian writers; it includes brief biographical details and notes by the authors on themselves and their books
Analysis Children's stories in English, 1945- Critical studies. Essays
Notes Bibliographies of works of individual authors
Bibliography Includes bibliographies
Notes Also issued online
Subject Children -- Books and reading -- Bibliography.
Children -- Books and reading.
Children's literature -- Bio-bibliography.
Children's literature -- History and criticism.
Children's literature.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Author Townsend, John Rowe.
LC no. 71858331
ISBN 0582154677