Author: FISHER [EDITED BY NANCY CHAMBERS], MARGERY
Title: Margery Fisher Recommends Classics For Children & Young People
Description: Thimble Press, UK, 1986. First Edition, Paperback. Fine Condition. 9780903355209 72 pages. Margery Fisher [Edited By Nancy Chambers]. A Signal Bookguide. -Margery Fisher, the eminent literary critic of books for children is widely admired for the consistency and clarity of her writing on the subject. No one presently active in the field has greater knowledge of children's books, past and present, which makes her selection of nearly one hundred classics of interest to general reader and specialist alike. Mrs Fisher, mother of six and grandmother of thirteen, is the first recipient of the Eleanor Farjeon Award for outstanding services to children's books; the first presenter of the prestigious May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture in the United States; author of several influential books about children's books; an experienced journalist ? for many years, review editor of children's books on the Sunday Times; and publisher and writer of the internationally respected review journal Growing Point, which, with the May 1986 issue entered its 25th year of publication. Classics for Children & Young People comes from the Thimble Press, publishers of Signal, the thrice-yearly specialist journal devoted to children's books and the children's book world.? Book - in Near Fine [better than Very Good] card covers - light browning to the covers. Contents, clean, bright and tightly bound. Size: 8.5 inches tall by 5.25 inches. 72 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 0.11 kilos. Category: Booklets & Pamphlets; ISBN: 0903355205. ISBN/EAN: 9780903355209. Inventory No: 196336.

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