Chambers nancy editor (16 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 151 pages. (SL#2B).

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. DJ spine sunned. Bookplate to Front Free End paper. Black & white illustrations. 352 pages. The Signal was a highly regarded journal concerned with children's books. This fascinating collection contains a wide range of essays interspersed with 'Signal Quotes' by well known authors. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very good copy. Paperback. Paginated 147-218pp. Periodical of literary criticism on children's literature. Includes five page essay on parables by Ted Hughes, the gloriously surreal How you Become a Children's Writer written and illustrated by Wim Hofman (translated from the Dutch - very little of Hofman's work is translated into English), and the index for 1992 volumes of Signal Stapled pamphlet binding. Hint of a crease to one corner. Very clean and neat. Very good copy.…

Paperback. Zustand: Near fine, bright copy. Paperback. Paginated 79-142pp. Periodical of literary criticism on children's literature. Includes Maurice Sendak interview, and article on Finnish children's books, and an overview of books about children's books published in the UK in 1991. Stapled pamphlet binding. Very clean and neat. Near fine copy.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very good copy. Paperback. Paginated 71-142pp. Periodical of literary criticism on children's literature. Includes: The Signal Poetry Award 2000 to Christopher Reid's All Sorts by Peter Holindale and Sophie Hannah; The Unlearned Lessons of the Stories Children Tell; Hans Christian Andersen Award 2000 to Anthony Browne; Books About Children's Books by Sheila Ray. Very clean and neat. Very good copy.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very good copy. Paperback. Paginated 155-218pp. Periodical of literary criticism on children's literature. Includes: Books Before Lunch by Joan Aiken; Translating Pictures; Presencing the Past (on the concepts of history and heritage and the focusing on the works of writers Rosemary Sutcliffe, Philippa Pearce and Frank Cottrell Boyce); The International Case of Little Colourless Babaji: Reracinating, Returning and Retaining a Classic on the reworking of Helen Bannerman's 1899 tale with Fred Marcellino illustrations. Annual Index. Very clean and neat. Very good copy.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very good copy. Paperback. 66pp. Periodical of literary criticism on children's literature. Includes: Reading in childhood; Nina Bawden An Author for Today reprinted from Signal 1971; Children's Literature and the Emerging Artist; Children's Literature Studies in a New Century; Betwixt and Between- The Canonization of Naughton and Nolan; The Patrick Hardy Lecture by Quentin Blake. The Quentin Blake piece has three illustrations adn there is a further Blake illustration, drawn for his interviewer Elaine Moss in the 1971 issue, reproduced here on the first page. Very clean and neat. Very good copy. …

Paperback. Zustand: Very good copy. Paperback. Paginated 79-150pp. Periodical of literary criticism on children's literature. Includes: publishing history of Erich Kästner's Emil and the Detectives; Signal Poetry Award to Jackie Kay; Peter Hollindale on Beatrix Potter; Books About Children's Books 1998 by Shelia Ray. Very clean and neat. Very good copy.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very good copy. Paperback. Paginated 147-210pp. Periodical of literary criticism on children's literature. Includes Collecting Canal Fiction; Josef Guggenmos, poet by renowned translator Anthea Bell; The Carnegie Medal; The Death of Populism by Carnegie Medal winning children's writer Aiden Chambers; Boutique Inclusiveness in Literacy Education; Sheila Ray on Resources for Studying Children's Books; Annual Index for issues 91, 92, 93, 2000. Very clean and neat. Very good copy.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good+, sound copy. Paperback. Paginated 79-146pp. Periodical of literary criticism on children's literature. Includes: Signal Poetry Award 1998, Roger McGough; Having to Learn to Read; C. Walter Hodges, Word Artist; Adventures Among the Midrashim by Jan Mark - Mark's discussion of the book's origins and development and her work with illustrator David Parkins; Books about Children's Books 1997. Very clean. A little rubbed to edges and creased to one corner. Good+, sound copy.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very good copy. Paperback. 74pp. Periodical of literary criticism on children's literature. Includes: Translating Verse for Children by Anthea Bell; The Silver Sword - A Publishing Story by Jane Serraillier Grossfield; Reading Historical Children's Literature Today by Susan R. Gannon, etc. Very clean and neat. Very good copy. …

Paperback. Zustand: Very good copy. Paperback. 74pp. Periodical of literary criticism on children's literature. Includes: Thoughts on Children and Poetry; Playing in the Phase Space - Contemporary Forms of Fictional Pleasure; Edward Blishen - Teacher versus Critic; Other Sides of the Story: War in Translated Children's Fiction (Anne Holm, Erich Kästner, Andrà Maurois, Claude Gutman, etc); The Second Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation by Anthea Bell; Every Year is a Year of Reading - The Patrick Hardy Lecture; Lissa Paul and Peter Hunt on Ted Hughes. Very clean and neat. Very good copy.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good+, sound copy. Paperback. 74pp. Periodical of literary criticism on children's literature. Includes: an essay on Enid Blyton; the Patrick Hardy Lecture by Jacqueline Wilson; Odysseys: The Childness of Journeying Children; a two page biographical notes on Ethel Talbot, best known for her Girl Guiding stories, by her nephew David Grugeon together with the first 6 chapters of Brethren Child by Ethel Talbot, an fictionalised memoir of her early life in the Plymouth Brethren community (including a black and white photograph of Ethel Talbot with her siblings); more of Brethren's Child was published in later issues of Signal. Hint of a crease to fore-edge. Very clean and sound. Good+, sound copy.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in gold cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is lightly sunned to the spine but still in as new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. 'This collection has bite; it is provocative, demanding, and should be read by those who value children and their books. Signal: Approaches to Children's Books was an independent journal about literature for children. It was founded by Nancy and Aidan Chambers in 1970 and ran until 2003. In 1980 it was the subject of this anthology by Nancy Chambers titled The Signal Approach to Children's Books, A Collection. It was described by Peter Hunt in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature as "one of the outstanding journals in its field, with a reputation for integrity, accessibility, and innovation". Ref EEE 3.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 2nd edition. 365 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Fine. Limited to 300 copies. ii, 180 pp. + original colour lithograph. Square 4to. Hardcover, half dark green leather, olive cloth boards, spine gilt lettered. All edges trimmed. Colour and B&W plates of artist's works and photographs. Artist's signature on the colophon. Including original artist's proof colour lithograph of daffodils (292x292 mm sheet), scarce. Signed by the artist, dated 77, enclosed in a separate folder with the matching boards, hinge starting. Book and portfolio housed in a beautiful cloth covered slipcase. Fine condition. Artist Proof Copy. Jack Chambers (d. 1978) was a London, Ontario born artist and filmmaker. He used the term "Perceptual Realism" ("perceptualism") to describe his style. Please note that this volume is heavy; extra shipping charges will apply.…