| Description |
xi, 211 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| Contents |
The marble in the water / Penelope Farmer -- Your arcane novelist / E.L. Konigsburg -- Viewed from a squashed eyeball / Paul Zindel -- Achieving one's heart's desires / Philippa Pearce -- Hanging in their true shapes / Alan Garner -- Timor mortis conturbat me / E.B. White and Doris Buchanan Smith -- Earthsea revisited / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Middle of the way / Rodie Sudbery and Beverly Cleary -- The color of skin / Mildred Taylor -- "The colour of saying" / Paula Fox -- Making the children stretch / Nina Bawden -- Types of ambiguity / Jill paton Walsh -- The sadness of compromise / Robert Cormier and Jill Chaney -- Not even for a one-night stand / Judy Blume -- Time present and time past / Penelope Lively. |
| Subject |
Children's stories, American -- History and criticism.
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Children's stories, English -- History and criticism.
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| ISBN |
0876752806 |
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0876752814 (paperback) |
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