Gillian Avery

An illustrated collection of traditional Russian tales including "Vassilissa the Beautiful," "The Frog Princess," and "The White Duck."

Russian Fairy Tales

While living with her sole living relative, an uncle in Oxford, eleven-year-old Maria shares an eccentric tutor with the boisterous Smith brothers and enjoys unusual outings and adventures in the English countryside.

Maria escapes

Author of Children's and Adult Fiction and of Studies of Children's Literature Gillian Avery

An account of children's literature from colonial times to the early 20th century.

American Children and Their Books, 1621-1922

Behold the Child

Behandeling van de diverse perioden en genres in de Engelse jeugdliteratuur van de Verlichting tot ca. 1950

A Study of the Heroes and Heroines of Children's Fiction, 1770-1950

Childhood's Pattern

Pressured by his father to leave school for a career he doesn't want, a nineteenth-century Manchester boy runs away and gains a new perspective on his future.

A Likely Lad

The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children is a treasury of great poems chosen for the sheer pleasure they offer to readers of all ages. Compiler Gillian Avery's aim was to avoid condescending to children and "to assemble a collection of poems that the owner will not outgrow." With that in mind, she has included very few works that were written solely for a young audience. The more than 250 pieces gathered here range from ballads to epics, from inspired nonsense to memorable reflections on love and death. A wide variety of poets grace these pages, from Mother Goose to Shakespeare, from Emily Dickinson to Noel Coward, from Robert Frost to Ogden Nash. Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" and Rosetti's "Goblin Market" will enchant young readers as much as T. S. Eliot's "The Naming of Cats" and Lewis Carroll's "The Mock-Turtle's Song" will entertain them. Adorned with engravings by the eighteenth-century artist Thomas Bewick, this collection belongs in every family's library.

Illustrated by Thomas Bewick

The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children

Angela Bull

Heroes and Heroines in English Children's Stories, 1780-1900

Nineteenth Century Children

Twelve-year-old Margaret hardly knows whether to look forward to a chance to mingle with the famous at her cousin's country home, or dread the mess her brother's mischief will make of the situation.

To Tame a Sister

Aimed at anyone interested in the history of children's literature, this book also offers the general reader an insight into the changing face of American childhood through three centuries.

Geïllustreerde geschiedenis van meisjessscholen in Engeland. Aandacht voor nonnenscholen, kostscholen, vriendschappen, godsdienst, discipline, crises en het onderwijzend personeel.

A History of Girls' Independent Schools

The Best Type of Girl

Based on a true incident in 1882, this gentle satire set in Victorian England is the story of how Aunt Louisa, young Harriet, and others protest against Jumbo's tour of America. Jumbo is "the elephant friend of all England's children", and they're determined to keep him there.

The Elephant War

Gillian Avery, historian of children's books and novelist whose first book THE WARDEN'S NEICE has become a modern classic of children's literature, has made a very personal selection of favourite poems. If children like them as much as she does, then (she says) they will stay in the mind long after their readers have grown out of childhood. Her taste is for the Augustan rather than the Romantic writers, but her choice of over two hundred and fifty pieces ranges widely, from ballads to Ted Hughes, from Ben Jonson to Noel Coward. The illustrations are taken from the books of natural history made by Thomas Bewick, the celebrated English wood engraver.

Gillian Avery

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