Suzanne Rahn

Ruth Anne Thompson

Susan R. Gannon

This anthology of critical writing on St. Nicholas includes influential articles already published and newly commissioned essays on a variety of subjects, including the impact of the St. Nicholas league, the utopian thrust of the magazine's fiction, and how Dodge persuaded Kipling to become a children's writer.

The Legacy of a Children's Magazine Editor, 1873-1905

St. Nicholas and Mary Mapes Dodge

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Rediscoveries in Children's Literature

Later pieces by writers like Osmond Beckwith and Salman Rushdie complete the picture to give us a wide variety of the critical perspectives on and literary importance of Baum's classic fairy tale.

Suzanne Rahn

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