Studies in children's literature, 1500–2000

Celia Keenan & Mary Shine Thompson editors

'This international collection of essays is stimulating, wide-ranging and eye-opening ... shines a brilliant light on reading, writing and evaluating children's literature', Niall McGonagle, Irish Times.

'The essays are well documented and they cover writers as diverse as Flora Shaw and Robert Frost... The student of children's literature will find much to value here', C. Holt-Fortin, SUNY Oswego, Choice.

'This admirable book marks the place that children's literature has won as part of this extraordinary national progress (modernization)... the standard of writing is very high, and almost everything is interesting', Books for Keeps.

'... holds the distinction of being the first scholarly book devoted to the study of children’s literature to be published in Ireland. Happily, it more than bears the weight of expectation and provides an excellent snapshot of the best work being carried out across a span of literature from the Renaissance to Harry Potter, representing an impressive range of innovative critical methodologies', PJ Mathews, Irish Economic and Social History (2007).