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Reading as Adventure for Young Readers
A critical sketch of child reading, praising books like Jack and the Beanstalk from Tack and the Beanstalk, with commentary on revisions, illustrations, and authorial style. Noting Harold Jones art, Judith Wright’s The Day the Mountain Played, and Rumer Godden’s Candy Floss, alongside The Log of the Ark by Walker and Boumphrey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack
Kathleen Lines
Oxford
Lines
Harold Jones
Judith Wright
Annette Wright
Anacaranda Press
Frank Dalby Davison
Mrs. Gunn
Rumer Godden
Macmillan
Candy Floss
Mizz Godden
Adrienne Adams
M.F
Kenneth Walker
Geoffrey Boumphrey
Cape
Zoo