The Economist (US), November 26th, 1994
IT HAS been an odd autumn for children's literature. One of its finest writers, Jill Paton Walsh, almost won the 1994 Booker prize for fiction for a novel, written for adults, that she had to publish herself. Although she has written 40 books for children, and won top awards in the field, one national newspaper dismissed her as a "housewife". This continuing neglect--and ignorance--of children's books is a reason why we try again to point out some of the best titles published this Christmas.
11 & ABOVE
Writers who have spent their entire careers disturbing adults often find that the challe...
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