cover image The Essential Guide to Children's Books and Their Creators

The Essential Guide to Children's Books and Their Creators

. Mariner Books, $17.95 (560pp) ISBN 978-0-618-19082-9

Aficionados of children's literature get an education with The Essential Guide to Children's Books and Their Creators, ed. by Anita Silvey, an updated version of her Children's Books and Their Creators (1995). With an encyclopedic approach, the volume contains 475 alphabetically ordered entries-375 from the previous edition and 100 new essays-covering authors, illustrators, genres, publishing trends and more. Writers and artists sound off in entries marked ""Voices of the Creators""; incidental illustrations appear throughout.