Coming of Age in Children's Literature Growth and Maturity in the Work of Phillippa Pearce, Cynthia Voigt and Jan Mark
, by Meek Spencer, Margaret; Watson, VictorNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780826458421 | 0826458424
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 11/1/2003
Edited by Morag Styles and written by an interational team of acknowledged experts, this series provides jargon-free, critical discussion and a comprehensive guide to literary and popular texts for children. Each book introduces the reader to a major genre of children's literature, covering key authors, major works and contexts in which those texts are published. Margaret Meek and Victor Watson provide a profound and revealing examiniation of the treatment of personal development, maturation and rites of passage in literature written for children and adolescents. Including a broad survey of the theme across a number of genres and an in-depth analysis of the work of key writers, the authors work towards an answer to the question "What is a classic?"Margaret Meek is Reader Emeritus at the Institute of Education in London. Victor Watson is Assistant Director of Research at Homerton College, Cambridge.