Edited by one of the leading scholars in children's literature studies, this highly entertaining and scholarly anthology features over 120 complete works, poems, stories, and extracts from novels.
- Includes over 120 complete works, poems, stories and extracts from novels.
- Provides an entertaining and scholarly view of the development of children's literature in the UK and the USA, with representative pieces from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
- Includes both famous books and poems, as well as less well-known but fascinating examples.
- Features a bibliography of the best critical and historical secondary sources.
List of Plates.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849):.
From Early Lessons (1801).
Ann Taylor (1782-1866), Jane Taylor (1783-1824) and Adelaide O'Keeffe (?1776-1855):.
Original Poems for Infant Minds (two volumes: 1804, 1805).
'Morning'.
'Never Play with Fire'.
'My Mother'.
'The Pin'.
Rhymes from the Nursery (1806).
'The Star'.
'Poor Children'.
'The Little Husbandman'.
William Roscoe (1753-1831):.
From The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast (1807).
Elizabeth Turner (1775?-1846):.
From The Daisy, or Cautionary Stories, in Verse. Adapted to the Ideas of Children From Four to Eight Years Old (1807).
'The Canary'.
'Dangerous Sport'.
Barbara (Wreaks) Hofland (1770-1844):.
From The History of an Officer's Widow, and Hls&
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