Gillian Avery
Gillian Avery is a historian of children s literature based in Oxford. She is the author of Childhood s Pattern (1975) and Behold the Child: American Children and Their Books, 1621 1922 (1994), as well as co-editor of Children and their Books (1989) and Representations of Childhood Death (2000). She was chairman of the Children s Books History Society from 1987 to 1990.
Gillian Avery is a historian of children s literature based in Oxford. She is the author of Childhood s Pattern (1975) and Behold the Child: American Children and Their Books, 1621 1922 (1994), as well as co-editor of Children and their Books (1989) and Representations of Childhood Death (2000). She was chairman of the Children s Books History Society from 1987 to 1990. See less
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Short stories for kids! & adults too
by Therin, Aug 15, 2013
I had fond memories of this book, which was awarded to me in Grade 7, then stolen when I was student teaching. I was thrilled to follow a tenuous memory of one character's name over the internet to ... Read More
