An Apple Alphabet And Traditional Nursery Rhymes

Nov 15, 2024 11:40 AM

Author:Kate Greenaway

This charming volume brings back into print some of the finest illustrated children's books from the Arts and Crafts Movement: Kate Greenaway's much-loved alphabet book, A Apple Pie, along with a selection of her illustrated nursery rhymes.

Greenaway's drawings conjure up a never-never land of rural simplicity and innocence–an escape from the squalor of Victorian cities–that is as delightful now as it was when these gems of children's literature first appeared in the 1880s.

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A writer of wild humour

—— Oxford Companion to Children's Literature

Emil is a wonder... the book had, and still has, the effect of making me feel part of Emil's little gang of boys... Emil and the Detectives is a little masterpiece... Read it and you will be happy

—— Maurice Sendak

The main pleasure of the book is in the way in which it plays to the fantasy of omnipotence in a child: that a team of kids could really organise themselves into a team of detectives and catch a thief

—— Michael Rosen , Guardian

The perfect introduction to the world of fictional crime detection

—— Independent

Robert Swindells writes the kinds of books that are so scary you're afraid to turn the page

—— Daily Telegraph

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