{"product_id":"childrens-literature-9780631210498","title":"Childrens Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdited by one of the leading scholars in children''s literature studies, this highly entertaining and scholarly anthology features over 120 complete works, poems, stories, and extracts from novels.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes over 120 complete works, poems, stories and extracts from novels.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides an entertaining and scholarly view of the development of children''s literature in the UK and the USA, with representative pieces from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes both famous books and poems, as well as less well-known but fascinating examples.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures a bibliography of the best critical and historical secondary sources.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Children's literature has a rich tradition and this carefully selected anthology demonstrates its strength and variety very well.\" \u003ci\u003eReference Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Boys' stories, fairy stories, moral and educational tales, nonsense poems, tall stories and fantasy - this new anthology of children's literature covers a full range of nineteenth-century texts including a good selection of unfamiliar works from the United States, Canada and Australia.\" \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Plates. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaria Edgeworth (1767-1849):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Early Lessons (1801).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnn Taylor (1782-1866), Jane Taylor (1783-1824) and Adelaide O'Keeffe (?1776-1855):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOriginal Poems for Infant Minds (two volumes: 1804, 1805).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Morning'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Never Play with Fire'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'My Mother'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'The Pin'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRhymes from the Nursery (1806).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'The Star'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Poor Children'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'The Little Husbandman'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Roscoe (1753-1831):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast (1807).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElizabeth Turner (1775?-1846):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Daisy, or Cautionary Stories, in Verse. Adapted to the Ideas of Children From Four to Eight Years Old (1807).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'The Canary'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Dangerous Sport'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBarbara (Wreaks) Hofland (1770-1844):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The History of an Officer's Widow, and Her Young Family (1809).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Martha Sherwood (1775-1851):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The History of the Fairchild Family or, the Child's Manual: Being a Collection of Stories Calculated to Shew the Importance and Effects of a Religious Education (1818).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlicia Catherine Mant (?1788-1869):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom The Cottage in the Chalk Pit (1822).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClement Clarke Moore (1779-1863):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'A Visit from St. Nicholas' (1823).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary [Botham] Howitt (1799-1888):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The New Year's Gift, and Juvenile Souvenir (1829).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'The Spider and the Fly'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Poems for Our Children (1830).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Mary's Lamb'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCatharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Home (1835).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJacob Abbott (1803-79):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom A Little Scholar Learning to Talk (1835).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Rollo at Work (1837).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Kirke Paulding (1778-1860):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom A Christmas Gift from Fairyland'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom 'Florella, or the Fairy of the Rainbow' (1838).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCatherine Sinclair (1800-64):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Holiday House (1839).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharlotte Barton (1797-1862):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom A Mother's Offering to her Children: by a Lady, Long Resident in New South Wales (1841).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHarriet Mozley (1803-1851):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Fairy Bower, or The History of a Month. A Tale (1841).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Browning (1812-89):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Dramatic Lyrics (1842).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'The Pied Piper of Hamelin'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEliza Lee Cabot Follen (1787-1860):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom New Nursery Songs for all Good Children (1843).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Three Little Kittens'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'William Churne of Staffordshire' (Revd. Francis Edward Paget (1806-1882)):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Hope of the Katzekopfs (1844).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRichard Henry (Hengist) Horne (1802-1884):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Memoirs of a London Doll (Written by Herself; Edited by Mrs Fairstar) (1846).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEdward Lear (1812-88):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom A Book of Nonsense (by Derry Down Derry) (1846, 1861):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'The Jumblies' from Nonsense Songs, Botany, and Alphabets (1871).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCaptain (Frederick) Marryat (1792-1848):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Children of the New Forest (1847).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Ruskin (1819-1900):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The King of the Golden River or the Black Brothers. A Legend of Stiria (1851).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCatherine Parr (Strickland) Traill (1802-99):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Canadian Crusoes, A Tale of Rice Lake Plains (1852).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Louisa Charlesworth (1819-80):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Ministering Children (1854).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Oliver Optic' (William Taylor Adams (1822-97)):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Boat Club, or the Bunkers of Rippleton (1855).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Rose and the Ring, Or The History of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo. A Fireside Pantomime for Great and Small Children (1855).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristopher Pearse Cranch (1813-1892):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Last of the Huggermuggers, a Giant Story (1855 (dated 1856)).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharlotte M(ary) Yonge (1823-1901).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Daisy Chain; or, Aspirations. A Family Chronicle (1856).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA. L. O. E. (A Lady of England) (Charlotte Maria Tucker (1821-93)):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Rambles of a Rat (1857).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Hughes (1822-96) :.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrances Browne (1816-97):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Granny's Wonderful Chair and its Tales of Fairy Times (1857).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eR(obert) M(ichael) Ballantyne (1825-94):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean (1858).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrederick W(illiam) Farrar (1831-1903):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Eric; or, Little by Little. A Tale of Roslyn School (1858).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamuel G(riswold) Goodrich (1793-1860):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Peter Parley's Tales of the Sea (1860).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharles Kingsley (1819-75):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Water-Babies. A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby (1863).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam (Still) Stitt Jenkins (?-?):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Lost Children (1864).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary (Elizabeth) Mapes Dodge (1831-1905):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Hans Brinker; or, The Silver Skates (1865).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Hesba Stretton' (Sarah Smith (1832-1911)):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Jessica's First Prayer (1867).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Farquharson Finley (1828-1909):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Elsie Dinsmore (1867).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Townsend Trowbridge (1827-1916):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Darius Green and his Flying Machine' (1867).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLouisa May Alcott (1832-88):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Little Women (1868).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharles Dickens (1812-1870):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom A Holiday Romance (1868).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHoratio Alger Jr (1832-99):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks (1868).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Story of a Bad Boy (1870).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJean Ingelow (1820-97):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Mopsa the Fairy (1869).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Anne, Lady Barker (1831-1911):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Boys - (1874).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas March Clark (1812-1903):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom John Whopper the Newsboy (1870).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Lewis Carroll' (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-98)):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1871).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Susan Coolidge' (Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (1845-1905)):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom What Katy Did (1872).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorge MacDonald (1824-1905):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Princess and the Goblin (1871 (dated 1872)).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristina (Georgina) Rossetti (1830-94):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Speaking Likenesses (1874).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJ(ohn) H(oward) Clark (1830-78):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBertie and the Bullfrogs: An Australian Story for Big and Little Children (1874).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Mark Twain' (Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910)):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Sewell (1820-78):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Black Beauty, His Grooms and Companions; The Autobiography of a Horse. Translated from the Original Equine (1877).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Louisa (Stewart) Molesworth (1839-1921):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Cuckoo Clock (1877).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTalbot Baines Reed (1852-93):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Boy's Own Paper, Volume 1, Number 1.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'My First Football Match' by an Old Boy (Saturday, January 18th, 1879).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam M(akepeace) Thayer (1820-98):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Log Cabin to White House: The Story of President Garfield's Life (1880).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJoel Chandler Harris (1848-1908):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Uncle Remus, His Songs and Sayings. The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation (1880 (dated 1881)).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Otis (Kaler) (1848-1912):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus (1881).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMargaret Sidney (Harriett M(ulford) (Stone) Lothrop (1844-1924)):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Five Little Peppers and How they Grew (1881).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(John) Richard Jefferies (1848-87):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Wood Magic, a Fable (1881).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eG(eorge) A(lfred) Henty (1832-1902):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Winning His Spurs. A Tale of the Crusades (1882).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Treasure Island (1883).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJuliana Horatia (Gatty) Ewing (1841-1885):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Jackanapes (1883).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEdward Eggleston (1837-1902):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Hoosier Schoolboy (1883).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eG(eorge) W(ilbur). Peck (1840-1916):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa (1883).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLaura E(lizabeth) (Howe) Richards (1850-1943):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Joyous Story of Toto (1885).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Louis Stevenson (1850-94):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom A Child's Garden of Verses (1885).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Whole Duty of Children'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Rain'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Where Go the Boats'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'System'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Good and Bad Children'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'The Lamplighter'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'The Cow'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Happy Thought'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLucretia P(eabody) Hale (1820-1900):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Peterkin Papers (1880).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditha's Burglar (1888).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrank R(ichard) Stockton (1834-1902):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Bee-man of Orn (1887).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePalmer Cox (1840-1924):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Brownies: Their Book (1887).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOscar Wilde (1854-1900):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Happy Prince (1888).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'The Selfish Giant'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Nelson Page (1853-1922):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Two Little Confederates (1888).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eE(dward) B. Kennedy (?-?):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Blacks and Bushrangers: Adventures in Queensland (1889).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEugene Field (1850-1895):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom A Little Book of Western Verse (1889).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Wynken, Blynken and Nod'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAndrew Lang (1844-1912):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Prince Prigio (1889).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJ(ames) Macdonald Oxley (1855-1907):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Up Among the Ice Floes (1890).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Hardy (1840-1928):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Our Exploits at West Poley (1892-3).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Margaret) Marshall Saunders (1861-1947):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Beautiful Joe, The Autobiography of a Dog (1894).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEthel S(ybil) Turner (1872-1958):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Seven Little Australians (1894).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Jungle Book (1894).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom 'Kaa's Hunting'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eG(eorge) E(dward) Farrow (1862-?1920):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Wallypug of Why (1895).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBertha Upton (1849-1912) (Illustrated by Florence K. Upton (1873-1922)):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a \"Golliwogg\" (1895).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnnie Fellows Johnston (1863-1913):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Little Colonel (1896).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eS(amuel) R(utherford) Crockett (1860-1914):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Surprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion ...With Those of General Napoleon Smith. An Improving History for Old Boys, Young Boys, Little Boys, Cow Boys and Tom-Boys (1897).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlbert Bigelow Paine (1861-1937):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Arkansas Bear, a Tale of Fanciful Adventure told in Song and Story (1898).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJ(ohn) Meade Falkner (1858-1932):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Moonfleet (1898).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eErnest (Evan) Thompson Seton (1860-1946):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Wild Animals I Have Known (1898).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom 'The Springfield Fox'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEthel Pedley (?1860-98):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Dot and the Kangaroo (1899).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling (1805-1936):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Stalky and Co (1899).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom 'The Moral Reformers'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eE(dith) Nesbit (1858-1924):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFom The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1899).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Lord Tottenham'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eL(man)Frank Baum (1856-1919):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eL'Envoi.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Just-So Stories (1902).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelect Bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex of Authors, Titles and First Lines.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403420246359,"sku":"9780631210498","price":52.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631210498.jpg?v=1730483418","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/childrens-literature-9780631210498","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}