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Publication: Written for Children: An Outline of English-Language Children's Literature

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  • Publication: Written for Children: An Outline of English-Language Children's LiteraturePublication Record # 358339
  • Author: John Rowe Townsend
  • Date: 1992-06-00
  • ISBN: 0-06-446125-4 [978-0-06-446125-2]
  • Publisher: HarperTrophy
  • Price:
    $12.95?$: US dollar
  • Pages: xii+372
  • Format:
    tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
  • Type: NONFICTION
  • Notes:
    • • 4th rev. ed. (4th revision, 5th version of the text) • "25th anniversary edition." This is a US edition of all that, apparently the earliest. • Updated through 1989 --OCLC 25630220 • (c)1990 expected UK eds. of the 1st and 5th versions were first published in 1965 and 1990, US eds. in 1967 and 1992.
    • 1st HarperTrophy ed. Some records reports "1st Harper Trophy" with spaced imprint name but library records (4 cited below) report publisher "HarperTrophy"--as expected from other database records after 1991.
    • Illustrators presumably numerous "A survey [... with] "illustrations from many of the classics of children's literature through 1989" --OCLC 25630220
    • Bibliography, p336-46 The WorldCat summary, OCLC 25630220, specifies "a bibliography of works on children's literature".
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Nonfiction Title: Written for Children: An Outline of English-Language Children's Literature • (1974) • nonfiction by John Rowe Townsend (variant of Written for Children: An Outline of English Children's Literature 1965)

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