An illustrated collection of approximately sixty nursery rhymes, including a mixture of popular and lesser known rhymes.

Nursery Rhyme Book

Alderson, Brian

young lions

The Water-Babies (Oxford World's Classics)

'this is all a fairy tale...and, therefore, you are not to believe a word of it, even if it is true' The Water-Babies (1863) is one of the strangest and most powerful children's stories ever written. In describing the underwater adventures of Tom, a chimney-sweeper's boy who is transformed into a water-baby after he drowns, Charles Kingsley combined comic fantasy and moral fable to extraordinary effect. Tom's encounters with friendly fish, curious lobsters, and characters such as Mrs Doasyouwouldbedoneby are both an exciting fairy tale and a crash course in evolutionary theory. They also reflect the quirky imagination of one of the great Victorian eccentrics. Tom's adventures are constantly interrupted by Kingsley's sideswipes at contemporary issues such as child labor, and they offer a rich satiric take on the great scientific debates of the day. This edition reprints the original complete version of the story, and includes a lively introduction, detailed explanatory notes, and an appendix that reprints Kingsley's first attempt to describe the mysterious creatures that live under the sea. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Children's Books

Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert

Kingsley. Charles

Classics

Oxford University Press

One of a series offering classic and contemporary fiction for schools to suit a range of ages and tastes.

New Windmills: Tales from the Arabian Nights (New Windmills)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Heinemann Educational Books - Secondary Division

Sing a Song for Sixpence

To commemorate the centenary of the death of the artist and illustrator Randolph Caldecott, Brian Alderson, noted historian of children's literature and children's book editor of The Times, has prepared for the British Library an exhibition designed to pay tribute to Caldecott's skills as a creator of picture books, which will run from October 1986. This book, incorporating a catalogue of the exhibition, with its many illustrations in colour and black and white, both demonstrates Caldecott's genius and provides a brief critical history of an important area of children's book publishing. Comedy, storytelling and graphic exuberance are all part of the great tradition of book illustration that runs from Hogarth and Rowlandson down to the present day, and Caldecott's special genius was to have embodied these qualities in the subjects he chose. Together with an appraisal of those who influenced Caldecott and the effect he had on later generations of illustrators, Brian Alderson explains the relationship between pictures and text, techniques (wood-cuts, wood-engraving, intaglio printing), the effect of industrialisation on the picture book and the subsequent development of book illustration.

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Cambridge University Press

The Brothers Grimm, Popular Folk Tales

FOREMAN, MICHAEL

GRIMM, BROTHERS

Orion Publishing Co

A deluxe limited edition of 200 copies, all individually numbered and signed by the author and illustrator, of a retelling of "The Arabian Nights". The colour illustrations, with gold embellishments, are by Michael Foreman, whose many awards include two Kate Greenaway Medals.

The Arabian Nights

Literature & Fiction

A collection of fairy tales from the folklore of France, Germany, Scandinavia, Scotland, and England.

The Blue Fairy Book: 2

LANG, ANDREW

Animals

Viking Juvenile

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