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The Oxford dictionary of Nursery Rhymes
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ISBN: 0198691114 9780198691112 Year: 1973 Publisher: Oxford at the Clarendon Press (Oxford University Press)


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Beatrix Potter & Peter Rabbit : a centenary celebration from the collections of Grolier Club members
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ISBN: 0910672393 Year: 2001 Publisher: New York The Grolier Club

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British children's fiction in the Second World War
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ISBN: 0748653627 1281251941 9786611251949 074862872X 9780748628728 6611251944 9780748616510 0748616519 0748616500 9780748616503 Year: 2007 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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What children read in the Second World War had an immense effect on how they came of age as they faced the new world. This time was unique for British children - parental controls were often relaxed if not absent, and the radio and reading assumed greater significance for most children than they had in the more structured past or were to do in the more crowded future. Owen Dudley Edwards discusses reading, children's radio, comics, films and book-related play-activity in relation to value systems, the child's perspective versus the adult's perspective, the development of sophistication, retent


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Written for children : an outline of English-language children's literature
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ISBN: 014021920X Year: 1976 Publisher: Harmondsworth : Penguin Books,


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The child reader, 1700-1840
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ISBN: 9780521196444 0521196442 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge [etc.] Cambridge University Press

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"Although approaching the subject from the point of view of the reader, this book is fundamentally about the origins of children's literature as a separate and secure branch of print culture, a development that took place in Britain over the course of the long eighteenth century. Deplorably little is known about precisely how and why this happened. The new commodity was the product of a number of interconnected factors. It was a development based on enterprising entrepreneurs, talented authors and illustrators, and technological innovations, but also shifting cultural constructions of childhood, demographic changes, and socio-economic transformations. Its consumers were absolutely central to its sudden take-off. Indeed, this book will be arguing that the very concept of children's literature was in large part the product of its purchasers and users"-- "Children's literature, as we know it today, first came into existence in Britain in the eighteenth century. This is the first major study to consider who the first users of this new product were, which titles they owned, how they acquired and used their books, and what they thought of them. Evidence of these things is scarce. But by drawing on a diverse array of sources, including inscriptions and marginalia, letters and diaries, inventories and parish records, and portraits and pedagogical treatises, and by pioneering exciting new methodologies, it has been possible to reconstruct both sociological profiles of consumers and the often touching experiences of individual children. Grenby's discoveries about the owners of children's books, and their use, abuse and perception of this new product, will be key to understanding how children's literature was able to become established as a distinct and flourishing element of print culture"--

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