Some Paradoxes to Ponder

by Sheila A. Egoff

The Puzzling and Not Entirely Welcome Development of Children's Literature Since the Nineteen Sixties : A Lecture for Children's Book Week

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First published September 1, 1996

About the author

Sheila Agnes Egoff was a Canadian librarian, literary critic, and historian who was Canada's first professor of children's literature. A recipient of the Order of Canada, she was known for her studies of children's fiction including The Republic of Childhood (1967), Thursday's Child (1981) and Worlds Within (1988). The Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize is named after her.