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Stranger Shore
Betty Greenway
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Description for Stranger Shore
Hardback. Examines over thirty of Mollie Hunter's fantasies, historical novels, realistic novels of modern life, and nonfiction essays on writing for children. In this book, Greenway offers the first full-length study of the works of Mollie Hunter. Series: Children's Literature Association. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 381.
Mollie Hunter, one of the premier storytellers for children and young adults, is a primarily self-educated Scottish author, whose range of published work crosses enormous genre boundaries, from fantasies, to realistic novels, to writings about the folklore and history of her native Scotland. A Stranger Shore examines over thirty of Mollie Hunter's fantasies, historical novels, realistic novels of modern life, and nonfiction essays on writing for children. In this book, Greenway offers the first full-length study of the works of Mollie Hunter. It includes four main chapters of analysis of the four genres of her work and concludes with ... Read more
Mollie Hunter, one of the premier storytellers for children and young adults, is a primarily self-educated Scottish author, whose range of published work crosses enormous genre boundaries, from fantasies, to realistic novels, to writings about the folklore and history of her native Scotland. A Stranger Shore examines over thirty of Mollie Hunter's fantasies, historical novels, realistic novels of modern life, and nonfiction essays on writing for children. In this book, Greenway offers the first full-length study of the works of Mollie Hunter. It includes four main chapters of analysis of the four genres of her work and concludes with ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Children's Literature Association
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810834699
SKU
V9780810834699
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About Betty Greenway
Betty Greenway is Professor of English at Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio, where she teaches children's literature.
Reviews for Stranger Shore
...a valuable study of a popular and prolific Scottish author, whose novels 'had their origins in real stories told to real children'...is particularly good on the ground-breaking and painfully autobiographical A Sound of Chariots.
School Librarian
...a superbly written and impeccably researched scholarly introduction..This volume is worth reading simply for the pleasures of Greenway's prose, which puts much ... Read more
School Librarian
...a superbly written and impeccably researched scholarly introduction..This volume is worth reading simply for the pleasures of Greenway's prose, which puts much ... Read more