Sheila Egoff (1918–2005)
Autore di Only Connect: Readings on Children's Literature
Sull'Autore
Opere di Sheila Egoff
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1918-01-20
- Data di morte
- 2005-05-22
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Canada
- Luogo di nascita
- Auburn, Maine, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Galt, Ontario, Canada
- Attività lavorative
- critic of children's literature
university professor - Premi e riconoscimenti
- May Hill Arbuthnot Lecturer (1979)
Claude Aubry Award (1983)
Utenti
Recensioni
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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- Voto
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- Recensioni
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- ISBN
- 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.… (altro)