ONLY CONNECT: Readings on Children's Literature - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195410246 ISBN 13: 9780195410242

Publisher: Oxford University Press Canada, 1996

Synopsis

ONLY CONNECT, first published in 1969 and extensively revised in 1980, has been widely accepted as an essential tool for all concerned with children's and young adult literature. ONLY CONNECT, Third Edition, presents a completely new selection of more than 40 essays and brief studies on history and criticism, literary standards, changing tastes, science fiction, young adult literature, fantasy, the problem novel, racism and sexism. Among the essayists are Joan Aiken, Margaret Mahy, P.L. Travers, Perry Nodelman, Brian Attebery, John Rowe Townsend, Myra Cohn Livingston, Peter Hunt, and Jane Yolen. Its assembled learning, common sense, and wit assure ONLY CONNECT, Third Edition, an honoured place beside the first and second editions.

About this title

About the Author:

Sheila Egoff is the author of Thursday's Child: Trends and Patterns of Contemporary Children's Literature and Worlds Within: Children's Fantasy from the Middle Ages to Today and co-author (with Judith Saltman) of The New Republic of Childhood: A Critical Guide to Canadian Children's Literature in English. She is Professor Emerita of the School of Librarianship, University of British Columbia. G.T. Stubbs, L.F. Ashley and Wendy Sutton are professors in the Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia

Synopsis:

First published in 1969 and revised in 1980 and 1995, Only Connect is still widely accepted as an essential tool for everyone concerned with children's books. This collection of essays- many of them classics- on history and criticism, standards, changing tastes, writers and writing, and the child's response to books, offers a highly readable amalgam of learning, common sense, and wit.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press Canada
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0195410246
• ISBN 13: 9780195410242
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 436
• Editor: Egoff Sheila, Stubbs Gordon, Ashley Ralph