A collection of stories, poems, holiday tales, humor, fantasies, and retellings of best-loved classics that provides one for each day of the year and includes twenty-four of the tales on audio CD.
A research-based guide that covers major genres of children's literature including picture books and folklore, and contains booklists, CD-ROM featuring interviews with leading authors and illustrators and title search engine.
Contains profiles of twelve popular authors, including J.K. Rowling, Brian Jacques, and Lois Lowry, providing information about their personal lives and careers, and including tips for aspiring writers.
Provides biographical information, a selection of critical essays, and complete bibliographies for twelve women writers of English children's literature, including Louisa May Alcott, Ursula Le Guin, Beatrix Potter, and Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Presents reproductions of a variety of early 19th-century children's books including rhymed alphabets, nursery rhymes, a pictorial grammar, limericks, and nonsense rhymes.