Children and their Books: A Celebration of the Work of Iona and Peter Opie

by Gillian Avery (Editor), Julia Briggs (Editor)

This extensively illustrated collection of essays by twenty leading scholars explores a wide range of topics from the behavior of children in early modern England and the development of French fairy tales and nursery rhymes, to the work of classic authors such as Lewis Carroll, Kenneth Grahame, Beatrix Potter, and J.R.R. Tolkien, and some of the diaries and magazines written by children themselves. The contributors include Brian Alderson, Gillian Avery, Giles Barber, John Batchelor, John Bayley, Alan Bell, Julia Briggs, Hugh Brogan, Humphrey Carpenter, A.O.J. Cockshut, Barbara Everett, Kate Flint, Clive Hurst, Alison Lurie, Neil Philip, W.W. Robson, William S. Clair, Nigel Smith, Keith Thomas, and Jack Zipes.

Hardcover

First published December 7, 1989

About the author

Gillian Elise Avery was a British children's novelist, and a historian of childhood education and children's literature. She won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1972 for A Likely Lad. It was adapted for television in 1990.