Audacious Kids: Coming of Age in America's Classic Children's Books

by Jerry Griswold

Book Overview

Now often called the "Golden Age of Children's Books," the years stretching from the Civil War to World War I were a remarkable epoch in juvenile literature, an era when the best authors on both sides of the Atlantic--writers such as Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Rudyard Kipling, and Charles Dickens--wrote some of their finest work primarily for children. It was an era in America that produced such timeless childhood classics as Little Women, The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195058887
• ISBN13: 9780195058888
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"