Popular Children's Literature in Britain

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Julia Briggs, Dennis Butts, Matthew Orville Grenby
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2008 - Literary Criticism - 342 pages
This study of popularity and children's literature is organised into four sections: 'Old Tales Retold', 'Forgotten Favourites', 'Popular Instruction, Popularity Imposed' and 'The Famous Three - Blyton, Dahl and Rowling'.
 

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Children Chapbooks and
25
Robin Hood in Boys Weeklies to 1914
47
From Chapbooks to Pantomime
87
Introduction
101
Hesba Strettons Outcast Stories
123
The Adventure Stories of G A Henty
149
Angela Brazil and the Making of the Girls School Story
165
Introduction
185
Science for Children in the
209
Mee Hammerton
229
Introduction
247
And Children Swarmed to Him Like Settlers He Became a Land
271
The Launching of Harry Potter
287
Reading Desires in the
301
Further Reading
317
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