Arion and the Dolphin.(Children's Review)(Brief Article)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: November 26, 1994 | Copyright information

IT HAS been an odd autumn for children's literature. One of its finest writers, Jill Paton Walsh, almost won the 1994 Booker prize for fiction for a novel, written for adults, that she had to publish herself. Although she has written 40 books for children, and won top awards in the field, one national newspaper dismissed her as a "housewife". This continuing neglect--and ignorance--of children's books is a reason why we try again to point out some of the best titles published this Ch...

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