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Popular Children's Literature in Britain
Popular Children's Literature in Britain | Julia Briggs, Dennis Butts, Matthew Orville Grenby
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Responding to the astonishing success of J. K. Rowling and other contemporary authors, the editors of this timely volume take up the challenge of assessing the complex interplay of forces that have generated, and sometimes sustained, the popularity of children's books. Ranging from eighteenth-century chapbooks to the stories of Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl, and from science schoolbooks to Harry Potter, these essays show how authorial talent operates within its cultural context to make a children's classic.
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SusanInTiburon
Popular Children's Literature in Britain | Julia Briggs, Dennis Butts, Matthew Orville Grenby
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I'm having so much fun browsing bookshops in the U.K.! We rarely see these kinds of things in second-hand book stores in the U.S.

Texreader Two more days and I'm in the U.K. too. Hope to do a lot of book browsing as well 7y
SusanInTiburon @Texreader I'm having the most wonderful time. I hope you will, too! (edited) 7y
SaraFair Beautiful books. My used book store will not even take books that old. It really doesn't bother me to read an older book, as long as there's no mold- 7y
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Poindextrix
Popular Children's Literature in Britain | Julia Briggs, Dennis Butts, Matthew Orville Grenby
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Respectability politics, 1870s edition. #workreading

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Poindextrix
Popular Children's Literature in Britain | Julia Briggs, Dennis Butts, Matthew Orville Grenby
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They sent books with convicts to Australia. Granted, most of them were bibles and "don't sin" books, but still.

Sue And we can see how well that has worked lol 8y
Poindextrix Apparently they tended to throw them overboard 8y
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