From Rollo to Tom Sawyer : and other papers / decorations by Nora S. Unwin.

Author/creator Jordan, Alice M.
Format Book
Publication InfoBoston : Horn Book, 1948.
Description160 pages ; 20 cm
Subjects

Contents Introductory.--From Rollo to Tom Sawyer.--"The Juvenile miscellany" and its literary ladies.--Peter Parley.--The children of Jacob Abbott.--Susan Warner and her Wide, wide world.--The dawn of imagination in American books for children.--Elijah Kellogg and the Elm Island boys.--Horace E. Scudder, critic and editor.--"Our young folks," its editors and authors.--Good old "St. Nicholas" and its contemporaries.--The golden age.
General noteThe title essay was the 1st Caroline M. Hewins lecture, read at the 40th anniversary meeting of the Round Table of Children's Librarians of New England at Swampscott, Mass., Oct. 18, 1947; 6 of the other essays have appeared in the Horn book.
LCCN 48009996

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