Classics of Children's Literature (6th Edition) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131891839 ISBN 13: 9780131891838

Publisher: Longman, 2004

Synopsis

This anthology provides¿in a convenient, readable and economical format¿the most celebrated and enduring children's literary works. Unlike other surveys of children's literature that present a large number of samples, excerpts and synopses of many kinds and genres in the field, Classic of Children's Literature provides novels, stories, and fairy tales in their entirety. Featured selections include: E. B. White's modern masterpiece, Charlotte's Web; Margery William Bianco's classic fantasy, The Velveteen Rabbit; the Mowgli stories from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Books; and an array of children's verses: John Newbery's Mother Goose's Melody, Heinrich Hoffman's Struwwelpeter, nonsense verse by Edward Lear, and sixteen poems from Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. For literature enthusiasts.

About this title

From the Publisher

This anthology provides--in a convenient, readable and economical format--the most celebrated and enduring children's literary works in the English-speaking tradition. Its unique approach presents novels, stories, fairy tales, nursery rhymes and poems in their entirety. The Fourth Edition expands coverage by including more selections of enduring masterpieces.

From the Back Cover

This anthology provides in a convenient, readable and economical format the most celebrated and enduring children's literary works in the English-speaking tradition. Its unique approach presents novels, stories, fairy tales, nursery rhymes and poems in their entirety. The authors' objective is to make readily available to all students the full texts of genuine literary milestones works that demonstrate the dignity, vitality, and durability of children's classics. These include Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, London's The Call of the Wild, and more in a gender-balanced, well-edited, well-introduced assortment of the most profoundly imaginative, highly significant, and genuinely classic works in children's literature. For those interested in literature, children's literature, the history of children's literature, or library science.

Edition details

• Publisher: Longman
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0131891839
• ISBN 13: 9780131891838
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 1200
• Editor: John W. Griffith, Charles H. Frey