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title A Childs Delight author Perrin Noel publisher - photo 1
title:A Child's Delight
author:Perrin, Noel.
publisher:University Press of New England
isbn10 | asin:0874518407
print isbn13:9780874518405
ebook isbn13:9780585248974
language:English
subjectChildren's stories, English--History and criticism, Children's stories, American--History and criticism, Children's stories, English--Book reviews, Young adult fiction, English--Book reviews, Children's stories, American--Book reviews, Young adult fiction
publication date:1997
lcc:PR830.C513P47 1997eb
ddc:823.009/9282
subject:Children's stories, English--History and criticism, Children's stories, American--History and criticism, Children's stories, English--Book reviews, Young adult fiction, English--Book reviews, Children's stories, American--Book reviews, Young adult fiction
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A Child's Delight
Noel Perrin
Page iv Dartmouth College Published by University Press of New England - photo 2
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Dartmouth College
Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755
This collection 1997 by the Trustees of Dartmouth College
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
5 4 3 2
CIP data appear at the end of the book
The essays on Lucy Boston, Robert Burch, Lolah Burford, Edward Eager, Rumer Godden, Virginia Hamilton, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jean Merrill, Mary Norton, Earnest Seton, Dodie Smith, Zilpha Snyder, Mary Stolz, and T. H. White appeared first in the Washington Post, usually under different titles and in somewhat different form. 1990, 1991, 1992, The Washington Post. Reprinted with permission. The essays on Anne Lindbergh and Noel Streatfeild first appeared in the Los Angeles Times, also in slightly different form. The author is grateful to both for permission to reprint.
Page v
for Alexandra Hess
who, though less than two years old,
is in some ways the cause of this book
Page vii
Contents
Preface
xi
1. A Good Book to Read to a Two Year Old
(Leslie Brooke, Johnny Crow's Garden)
1
2. Wanda's Wonder-Book
(Wanda Gg, Millions of Cats)
6
3. The Third Grade Goes to Space
(Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen, The Magic School Bus, Lost in the Solar System)
11
4. Living Dolls
(Rumer Godden, The Dolls' House)
16
5. Boy Wants Dog
(Mary Stolz, A Dog on Barkham Street)
21
6. Nathaniel's Wonder-Book
(Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder-Book for Boys and Girls and Tanglewood Tales)
25
7. Living Dolls II
(Mary Norton, The Borrowers)
29
8. A Black Planet
(Virginia Hamilton, The Planet of Junior Brown)
34
9. The Freedom of the Woods
(Ernest Thompson Seton, Two Little Savages)
38
10. Living Dolls III
(T. H. White, Mistress Masham's Repose)
42
11. Three Fine Mice
(Margery Sharp, The Rescuers)
48

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12. Two Magical Books
(Lucy Boston, The Children of Green Knowe; Edward Eager, Half Magic)
55
13. The Jailbird's Daughter
(Robert Burch, Queenie Peavey)
60
14. Way Out West in Egypt Land
(Zilpha Keatley Snyder, The Egypt Game)
64
15. Dear Diary? Delightful Diary!
(P. L. Travers, I Go by Sea, I Go by Land)
69
16. A Ten Year Old in Hollywood
(Noel Streatfeild, Movie Shoes)
75
17. The Kids Fight Back
(Jean Merrill, The Pushcart War)
79
18. A Tale of Two Brothers
(Laurence Housman, The Rat-Catcher's Daughter and The Golden Sovereign; Lord Brabourne, Tales at Tea-Time; Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Kingdoms of Elfin)
84
19. Many Tales of Three Brothers
(George W. Dasent, East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon)
90
20. It Is Permitted to Try Again
(Anne Lindbergh, Nick of Time)
96
21. An Adventure a Day
(E. Nesbit, The Railway Children)
101
22. The Empty Castle
(Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle)
108
23. Prince of Deira
(Lolah Burford, The Vision of Stephen)
112
24. A Strange Voyage
(Hugh Lofting, The Story of Doctor Dolittle)
116
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