Scarecrow Press
Pages: 194
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Trim: 5½ x 8¾
978-0-8108-2950-3 • Hardback • November 1994 • $79.00 • (£61.00)
...an excellent summary of Newbery's achievements as a publisher and bookseller...attractively illustrated...an excellent and readable account of a man who was an innovator...recommended to the student of children's literature and the general reader alike.
— Australian Library Journal
...an exceptionally lively and honest portrait. This is an indispensable source for anyone who cares about children's books, lucid, affectionate, and scrupulously scholarly.
— Joys
...a thoughtful introduction to this enterprising gentleman in the context of eighteenth-century Enlightenment.
— The Horn Book Magazine
Invaluable for students and teachers of children's literature.
— J. Benardete, CUNY Hunter College