JAMES S. JACOBS is Assistant Professor of Education at Brigham Young University, specializing in children's literature. He is especially fascinated with the Lloyd Alexander genre. At the time this book went to press, he was on sabbatical in Karlsruhe, Germany, teaching at an elementary school on an American military base. MICHAEL O. TUNNELL is Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of The Prydain Companion: A Reference Guide to Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles (Greenwood Press, 1989) and articles in education and literary journals.
""Documents the professional career and private life of the
contemporary American writer, whose work far outranges his
reputation as an author of children's books. Both the primary and
secondary bibliographies are, in general, annotated, but unseen
material is cited without comment for the sake of
completeness.""-Reference & Research Book News
"Jacobs specializes in children's literature and concentrates on
this genre in Alexander's works. Tunnell (Northern Illinois
University) is the author of The Prydain Companion: A Reference
Guide to Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles (1989). Alexander,
whom the authors call "one of the most respected and best loved of
children's authors," has written more than 20 books for adults and
children and is recipient of major children's book awards. Because
of Alexander's reputation and because of the sizable body of his
work and extent of criticism on that work, this book needs no
excuse. The biographical portion, which stresses Alexander's
development as a writer, from his first memory in life (a clear
picture of sitting with a book and reading) to the 1990s (his
writing day still begins at 4: 00 a.m.), is supplemented by an
annotated bibliography of primary sources, secondary sources, and
audio-visual media; two appendixes (awards and chronology); and a
complete index of names and titles. For libraries supporting
children's literature or elementary education programs."-Choice
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