Sheila Egoff (1918–2005)
Autor(a) de Only Connect: Readings on Children's Literature
About the Author
Obras de Sheila Egoff
The New Republic Of Childhood: A Critical Guide To Canadian Children's Literature In English (1990) 18 cópias
Some Paradoxes to Ponder: The Puzzling and not entirely welcome development of children's literature sine the nineteen… (1996) 4 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1918-01-20
- Data de falecimento
- 2005-05-22
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- Canada
- Local de nascimento
- Auburn, Maine, USA
- Locais de residência
- Galt, Ontario, Canada
- Ocupação
- critic of children's literature
university professor - Premiações
- May Hill Arbuthnot Lecturer (1979)
Claude Aubry Award (1983)
Membros
Resenhas
See 1996 ed. comments. Essays by J.R.R. Tolkien, Rosemary Sutcliff, Nat Hentoff, many more.
Extremely knowledgeable editors, Sheila Egoff et al. have collected and solicited essays by the likes of the great Roy Stokes, Monica Hughes, Jane Yolen, Tim Wynne-Jones, and Natalie Babbit to create a monsterpiece in the history and criticism of children's literature.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 11
- Membros
- 245
- Popularidade
- #92,910
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Resenhas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 13
"Thoughts Concerning Children's Books" by Penelope Mortimer is good, too. It's pretty funny and she's arguing that "a good book cannot possibly be written for a particular age." I don't 100% agree with that statement (I think she wasn't considering books for babies), but I agree with the underlying principle that quality is quality.… (mais)