Offered to Children by Maurice Saxby

Offered to Children

A History of Australian Children’s Literature 1841-1941

by Maurice Saxby

Scholastic Australia, 1998, ISBN 1863886389, lightly illustrated with black and white photographs and illustrations, paperback

Very Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, creasing to front cover and first dozen or more pages at top, uncreased spine  (see photographs)

“Maurice Saxby first published his seminal history of the development of this literature in 1969.  A History of Australian Children’s Literature 1841-1941 has long been out of print and has become a collector’s item.
But since Saxby’s initial research a great body of literature, that had been held largely in private collections and been made public.  So Offered to Children is a complete rewrite in the light of that material.
In keeping with more recent literary approaches, the book is now genre-based as well as chronological, and is an exhaustive analytical coverage of a fascinating literature that highlights developing social and educational attitudes world-wide.”