British Children's Writers, 1914-1960

Download or read book British Children's Writers, 1914-1960 written by Donald R. Hettinga and published by Detroit, MI : Gale Research. This book was released on 1996 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on authors and poets in this volume represent some of the best-known writers of children's literature in the twentieth century. This period is marked by certain characteristics, such as stories of groups of children bonded together, the emergence of strong female protagonists, the "career books", and a consciously subdued presence of pain and suffering. Many of these works are valued for the window they provided upon a culture now gone