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The important books : children's picture books as art and literature
- Title
- The important books : children's picture books as art and literature / Joseph Stanton.
- Author
- Stanton, Joseph, 1949-
- Publication
- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 05-14141 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 88 p.; 22 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introduction -- "Goodnight nobody" : comfort and the vast dark in the picture-poems of Margaret Wise Brown and her collaborators -- Straight man and clown in the picture books of Arnold Lobel -- The cycle of the seasons in Hall and Cooney's Ox-cart man -- The New York City picture books of Maurice Sendak -- Dashing heroes and eccentric families in William Joyce's picture sagas of our common culture -- Surrealism and the strange tale in the picture books of Chris Van Allsburg.
- Call Number
- JFD 05-14141
- ISBN
- 0810851768 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005010487
- OCLC
- vendor
- Author
- Stanton, Joseph, 1949-
- Title
- The important books : children's picture books as art and literature / Joseph Stanton.
- Imprint
- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2005.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JFD 05-14141