Coming of Age in Children's Literature: Growth and Maturity in the Work of Phillippa Pearce, Cynthia Voigt and Jan Mark

Description

Providing an examination of the treatment of personal development, maturation and rites of passage in literature written for children and adolescents, this title includes a broad survey of the theme across a number of genres - including adventure and frontier stories, pony stories, school and holiday stories and series fiction - and an in-depth analysis of the work of key writers. The authors work towards an answer to the question "What is a classic?"

Margaret Meek Spencer is Reader Emeritus at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK. Victor Watson is Assistant Director of Research at Homerton College, Cambridge.

The reader is reflectively and imaginatively involved in the dilemmas and identities of the characters. This dual focus of growth in the text and in being engaged with the text depends on self-consciousness, and parallels theh experience of teh reviewer with this enlightening book". -- Eduacational review May 2006 '...fascinating.' * Books for Keep *