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Profiles in Children's Literature
Jaqueline Shachter Weiss
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Description for Profiles in Children's Literature
Hardback. In 1969, Dr Weiss began making videos of authors, illustrators, and editors in the children's literature field. The result was a collection of videos, "Profiles in Literature". This text summarizes and quotes from the interviews in the video series and also expands/updates guest's background data. Num Pages: 416 pages, photographs, index. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 690.
Profiles in Children's Literature offers readers a chance to learn about some of the 20th century's finest creators of the children's book. In 1969, Dr. Weiss began making videos of authors, illustrators, and editors in the children's literature field, who met with some of her Temple University classes to discuss their work. She invited local librarians and teachers to join her in interviewing guests. This book summarizes and quotes extensively from the personal interviews in the video series and also expands and updates guests' background data. All guests are highly celebrated: Aliki, Judy Blume, Beverly Cleary, Tom and ... Read more
Profiles in Children's Literature offers readers a chance to learn about some of the 20th century's finest creators of the children's book. In 1969, Dr. Weiss began making videos of authors, illustrators, and editors in the children's literature field, who met with some of her Temple University classes to discuss their work. She invited local librarians and teachers to join her in interviewing guests. This book summarizes and quotes extensively from the personal interviews in the video series and also expands and updates guests' background data. All guests are highly celebrated: Aliki, Judy Blume, Beverly Cleary, Tom and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810837874
SKU
V9780810837874
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Ref
99-15
About Jaqueline Shachter Weiss
Dr. Jaqueline Shachter Weiss has taught children's literature at Temple University and Lincoln University. She is the author of Young Brer Rabbit and Other Trickster Tales from the Americas—with Eartha Kitt's audiocassette narration—(Stemmer House, 1985), a Notable Children's Book in the Field of Social Studies.
Reviews for Profiles in Children's Literature
...valuable for foregrounding the many connections between creators' works and their personal lives...notable for its diversity.
Children's Literature Association Quarterly
...there are many, many gems here, including interviews with such luminaries as Arna Bontemps, Lorenz Graham, Marguerite de Angeli, Eleanor Estes, and Margaret McElderry.
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Children's Literature Association Quarterly
...there are many, many gems here, including interviews with such luminaries as Arna Bontemps, Lorenz Graham, Marguerite de Angeli, Eleanor Estes, and Margaret McElderry.
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books