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Only Connect: Readings on Children's Literature

L. F. Ashley & G. T. Stubbs & Sheila Egoff

First published 1969
Publisher Oxford University Press
Format Trade Paperback
Type Nonfiction
Cover art Bob Hohnstock
Pages xvii+471
Price C$7.50
ISBN 0195401611

Data from OCLC and from the second edition on Archive.org, Essay and General Literature Index 1971, Google Books, eBay, WorldCat, and British Book News, May 1970. Only genre contents (that could be found) are included. Also contains unknown interior art. {{incomplete}}

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 The Golden Age of Children's Books Roger Lancelyn Green Essay
33 Didacticism in Modern Dress John Rowe Townsend Essay
41 'For It Was Indeed He' Fortune Essay
62 An Imaginary Correspondence Rumer Godden Essay
70 'Good Bunnies Always Obey': Books for American Children Jason Epstein Essay
102 Goodbye Humphrey, Hello Dick and Jane Diana Goldsborough Essay
106 Where Is Fancy Bred? Helen Lourie Essay
111 Children and Fairy Stories J. R. R. Tolkien Essay
121 The Truth of Fables Michael Hornyansky Essay
133 Wells of Fancy, 1865-1965 Donnarae Mac Cann Essay
150 A Child's Garden of Bewilderment Martin Gardner Essay
156 A Late Wanderer in Oz Jordan Brotman Essay
170 News from Narnia Lillian H. Smith Essay
176 Babar's Civilization Analyzed Edmund Leach Essay
183 Only Connect P. L. Travers Essay
207 On Three Ways of Writing for Children C. S. Lewis Essay
221 The Animal Story: A Challenge in Technique William H. Magee Essay
233 Clio Junior: Historical Novels for Children Marion Lochhead Essay
244 Combined Ops Rosemary Sutcliff Essay
249 The Search for Selfhood: The Historical Novels of Rosemary Sutcliff uncredited Essay
256 Henry Treece: Lament for a Maker uncredited Essay
258 Beatrix Potter Graham Greene Essay
265 Hans Christian Andersen Alan Moray Williams Essay
270 Andrew Lang in Fairyland Roger Lancelyn Green Essay
277 Professionals and Confessionals: Dr Seuss and Kenneth Grahame Clifton Fadiman Essay
279 With Birds in His Beard Alison White Essay
310 Arthur Ransome: Charting the Course uncredited Essay
322 Among the Wild Things Nat Hentoff Essay
384 Science Fiction Sheila Egoff Essay
407 The Present State of English Children's Literature John Rowe Townsend Essay
419 Precepts and Pleasures: Changing Emphases in the Writing and Criticism of Children's Literature Sheila Egoff Essay
xv Preface (Only Connect: Readings on Children's Literature) G. T. Stubbs & L. F. Ashley Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Only Connect: Readings on Children's Literature Cover 1980 Oxford University Press Trade Paperback Nonfiction Helen Therese Damrosch xix+457