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Putting away the fear of childishness

Melanie McDonagh enjoys browsing Daniel Hahn’s new Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature, but wishes it had pictures

The importance of illustration: Babar et le Professeur Grifaton by Laurent de Brunhoff 
issue 11 April 2015

  • The Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature

    Daniel Hahn

    OUP, pp. 668

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