Three Centuries of Children's Books in Europe

Title

en_US Three Centuries of Children's Books in Europe

Description

en_US First US edition

Bettina H├╝rlimann, translated and edited by Brian W. Alderson

Creator

en_US Bettina Hurlimann See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Various

Date

2022-10-13T19:19:23Z

2020-05

en_US 1968

Date Available

2022-10-13T19:19:23Z

Date Issued

en_US 1968

Abstract

en_US This book has presented me with a large surprise: it does not mention fables once! The index has nothing under "Fable," "Aesop," or "La Fontaine." The surprise is underscored for me when the flyleaf of the dust-jacket says that the author "traces the history of children's books in Europe from "Aesop's Fables," "Pinocchio," and "Grimm's Fairy Tales" up through more recent classics like "Struwwelpeter" and "Babar the Elephant." Those others may be there, but Aesop's fables are not. Perhaps I should take this surprise as a commendation of fables as not originally meant for children. Still, Croxall and L'Estrange and many others since have surely been thinking of children as they produced their fable books. Otherwise, I find this book is particularly engaging because the author works from a lively personal sense of books she has herself collected. The frequent illustrations are helpful. Still, I go away surprised and frankly saddened. First published in 1959 by Atlantis Verlag in Zurich as "Europäische Kinderbücher in drei Jahrhunderten."

Identifier

en_US 12329 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/137810

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US The World Publishing Company

en_US Cleveland, OH

Subject

en_US PN1009.A1H813 1968 See all items with this value

Secondary See all items with this value