Comprehensive and visually rich, this new Norton Anthology traces the remarkable innovation and enduring pleasures of children's literature. The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature celebrates the richness and variety of over 350 years of literary works for children. This groundbreaking anthology includes 170 authors and illustrators of alphabets and animal fables, fairy tales and fantasy, picture books and nursery verse, among other genres. Here readers will find beloved works by Charles Perrault, Lewis Carroll, J.M. Barrie, L.M. Montgomery, and Dr. Seuss along with historical classics such as The New England Primer and Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. There are also major voices from the multicultural and global contemporary scene. Over 40 longer works and more than 450 illustrations, including 60 in colour, enhance this comprehensive and visually rich anthology. With introductions offering fresh insights into the cultural contexts of children's literature and childhood itself over four centuries, author headnotes, annotations, bibliographies, and a timeline, The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature illuminates a literary tradition whose power to instruct and delight is both centuries old and startlingly new. |
