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An Outline of English-language Children's Literature
"This is a brief, readable account of English prose fiction for children from its beginning main streams of development and includes the 'Courtesy Boo...
1961 ed. published under title: Gumble's yard.Four English children, abandoned by the couple they lived with, set up their own home in a deserted ware...
Essays on Contemporary Writers for Children
This book is an introduction to the work of nineteen leading English-language writers for children. It mixes American, British and Australian writers;...
Abandoned by their uncle and aunt, Kevin and Sandra run away to Gumble's Yard, a deserted row of cottages on the canal bank. But the cottages are not ...
New and Revised Essays on Contemporary Writers for Children
Essays on Nina Bawden, Vera and Bill Cleaver, Peter Dickinson, Paula Fox, Leon Garfield, Alan Garner, Virginia Hamilton, E.L. Konigsburg, Penelope Liv...
"The Baskerville family has been haunted for generations by a fearsome hound - a phantom beast with blazing eyes and dripping jaws. Surely it is just ...
A tubby, tormented twelve-year-old lets a highly imaginative skinny little eight-year-old girl talk him into friendship and a search for pirates' trea...
Biographical information, bibliographies, and critical examinations are presented for fourteen American, British, and Australian writers including Nin...
The inhabitants of Halcyon Island are ruled by the laws of the Deliverer and follow the same customs and traditions that have prevailed for hundreds o...
A Novel
Sixteen-year-old Alan, friendless and unhappy after moving to a small English village, falls in love with his twenty-three-year-old tutor whose presen...
When her father's new job necessitates moving to a small northern town, a fifteen-year-old English girl is unhappy until she becomes interested in the...
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By running away to marry Lynn, a girl two years older than he, sixteen-year-old Graham hopes to escape his restricted life with his parents and free L...
Seventeen-year-old Kate falls in love with a prince and finds herself in the middle of a revolution....
The island of Halcyon has continued in its quiet, isolated way for centuries. But when disturbing visitors arrive, brutal events change the course of ...
A family struggles to survive in a desperate time when the framework of life as they know it is rapidly being destroyed....
A family moves from the slums to a housing project....
Cambridge Reading is a major new reading scheme which provides stimulating books and support material throughout the primary years. Key features inclu...
Cambridge in June is full of visitors and you have to be quite extraordinary to attract attention; and yet John Dunham knew as soon as he set eyes on ...
Cambridge Reading is a major reading scheme which provides stimulating books and support materials for the teaching of reading and the development of ...
A boy with artistic yearnings, but no great talent, is accepted into the studio of Leonardo da Vinci to help with his work on a flying machine....
An allegorical interpretation of William Blake's poem "The Tyger."...
A quiet English girl becomes more assertive with the help of a magic stick....
In search of a less restrictive way to live, two young people break away from their colony of Persons on the planet Earth, become involved with the in...
En mystisk fremmed gรธr livet utรฅleligt og uhyggeligt for en ung mand og hans plejefar i en afsidesliggende engelsk landsby....
An allegorical interpretation of William Blake's poem 'The Tyer' in which a boy tries to reconcile various inner voices in a quest for identity....