American Picturebooks from Noah's Ark to the Beast Within [Hardcover]

Barbara Bader (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 615 pages
• Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co; First Edition edition (May 1976)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0027080803
• ISBN-13: 978-0027080803
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 8.2 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #236,420 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #27 in Books > Children's Books > Religions > Christianity > Noah's Ark

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5.0 out of 5 stars A comprehensive history of the American picturebook, May 24, 2006

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Truly a labor of love, Barbara Bader's history of the American picturebooks from colonial times to the nineteen seventies is essential reading for anyone interested in children's literature. Bader is particularly good about the post-WWII period when writers like Margaret Wise Brown and editors like Ursula Nordstrom started the trend of incorporating the ideas of child psychology into picturebooks. Bader seems to have known everybody who was anybody in postwar juvenile publishing it seems, and she interviewed them all for this book. The result is a fascinating social history of the children's book business as well as perceptive analysis of the books themselves. This is an important book that deserves to get back into print.