Product Description
by Chris Loker (Author), Jill Shefrin (Editor), Justin G. Schiller (Memoir by)
For her gorgeously illustrated and deeply researched contribution to the prestigious Grolier Hundred series, Chris Loker has assembled one hundred of the best known and most admired children's books from the English language canon of classics. Organized chronologically, One Hundred Books Famous in Children's Literature invites readers to follow the development of books written for children and printed between 1650 and 2000--from early forms of instructional primers and devotional readers, to exuberantly entertaining nursery rhymes, fairy tales, children's novels and works of verse. Also represented are alphabets, folktales, fables, and legends; a touch-and-feel book, a rebus book, a pop-up book, and, of course, picture books. Supplementing the informative essays that accompany each selection are illuminating contributions by five internationally recognized experts in children's literature: Brian Alderson, Nick Clark, Andrea Immel, Jill Shefrin, and Justin Schiller. This charming and intellectually stimulating volume, accessibly written to appeal to both scholars and the general public, has quickly become the classic checklist for book collectors, scholars, and anyone who loves children's literature.
Author Biography
Chris Loker is a curator, collector, and antiquarian bookseller, and the author of several books for children and about children's literature. Jill Shefrin is a bibliographer of children's books and printed ephemera, and a historian of children's education. Brian Alderson is the author of many books on children's literature and was the children's book editor for the Times of London for more than twenty years. H. Nichols Clark is the founding director and chief curator of the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, MA. Andrea Immel is curator of the Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton University and the coeditor of The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature. Justin Schiller is the author of Realms of Childhood: 200 Important Historical Children's Books and Related Drawings.
