An anthology of classical and contemporary children's stories, poems, myths, and legends from many countries.

Since its emergence in the seventeenth century as a distinctive cultural system, children's literature has had a culturally inferior status resulting from its e

The Newbery Medal-winning tale of an orphan boy whose dream of becoming a master potter leads to unforeseen adventure in ancient Korea. Tree-ear is an orphan bo

Max is sent to bed without supper and imagines sailing away to the land of Wild Things,where he is made king.

Children's book awards have mushroomed since the early twentieth-century and especially since the 1960s, when literary prizing became a favored strategy for bot