On Not Writing for Children (excerpt)

<ul> <li>Excerpt from a paper read by Travers at University of Connecticut 1974-03-26. <li>First published in <i>Children's Literature, Volume 4</i>, 1975 pp. 15-22 <li>Travers observes that "grownups are a very important part of children's literature, so called". She believes that she "didn't write for children at all" and wonders whether the field was invented by publishers and booksellers or by people who teach Children's Literature. </ul>

Data from Mary Poppins: 80th Anniversary Collection, second printing (2014 or 2015), where the excerpts runs pp 1022-24.