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Oak Knoll offers an expansive selection of books about Children’s Books which includes over 450 new and antiquarian titles. We have just updated our website with a new section that features these books which is easy to browse and search through. You may find that section by clicking the following link:

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The following is a list of some of the titles we have recently published on Children’s Books, many of which have already proven to be important resources in the field. See below for more detailed information on each title as well as a link to its book detail page on our website:

 

- NEW! Howard Pyle: His Life -- His Work

- NEW! The Dartons: An Annotated Checklist of Children's Books, Games and Educational Aids

- Tasha Tudor: The Direction of Her Dreams

- Lewis Carroll and the Press

- Children's Books in England, Five Centuries of Social Life

- The Night Before Christmas, A Descriptive Bibliography

 

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HOWARD PYLE: HIS LIFE -- HIS WORK

By Paul Preston Davis

At the dawn of the 20th century, Howard Pyle was America's most famous and influential illustrator. Through the illustrated pages of Harper's, Scribner's and Century magazines, the American public first became acquainted with the illustrator that they would come to love.  Both by example and through his teaching, Pyle molded and influenced generations of young artists who have continued his unique vision of illustration far beyond his own lifetime.

   Published 93 years after the death of Howard Pyle, this book celebrates the enduring and far-reaching achievements of America's foremost illustrator.  Illustrated with over 3300 images, this important research tool represents the complete record of all known Howard Pyle illustrations, hundreds of which have not been reproduced since their original publication over 100 years ago.

   Paul Preston Davis, with exhaustive research and dogged perseverance, has produced a much-needed resource for the study of Howard Pyle and American illustration.  His work greatly expands upon the data originally collected by Willard S. Morse and Gertrude Brinklé in 1921.  For the first time, full-color images (approx. 1.25 x 2.25 inches) of each of Pyle's published and unpublished works are provided in a single source.  Most importantly for the researcher, Davis has indexed and re-indexed the information, creating a tool that is as easy to use as it is valuable.  This remarkable and comprehensive set of books embodies years of research and will be valued and treasured by researchers, scholars, librarians, and collectors alike. Co-published with The Delaware Art Museum. SALES RIGHTS: Worldwide. Available in January 2005.

2004, hardcover, 9 x 12 inches, 906 pages

ISBN 1584561335  -  Order No. 075317  -  Price: $149.95

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THE DARTONS: AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS, GAMES AND EDUCATIONAL AIDS ISSUED BY TWO PUBLISHING HOUSES 1787-1876

By Lawrence Darton

First edition. In 1787 William Darton began engraving and printing children's books. Over the next 60 years his firm printed over 1,000 books for young people. In 1804, a separate firm of Darton was founded by William's oldest son. They published over 1,600 children's titles. The work contains the details and bibliography of both Darton firms and an index of their artists and engravers. This work is a major reference source on juvenilia and the early history of children's books. The author is the great-great-great-grandson of William Darton. There are seventy illustrations in this work. Co-published with The British Library. SALES RIGHTS: Available in North & South America from Oak Knoll Books. Available outside North & South America from The British Library. Available in January 2005.

2003, hardcover, 6.5 x 9 inches, 709 pages

ISBN 1584560770  -  Order No. 071827  -  Price: $98.00

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TASHA TUDOR: THE DIRECTION OF HER DREAMS

By Wm John and Priscilla T. Hare

First edition. This is the long-awaited, first, comprehensive bio-bibliography of one of the most-loved children's book authors and illustrators in America and around the world. Not only does this book describe Tudor's sixty-year career, but readers will enjoy the poignant stories about Tudor written by her two daughters, Bethany and Efner, and her editors, Patricia Gauch and Dorothy Haas. The daughter of naval architect, W. Starling Burgess, and portrait painter, Rosamond Tudor, Tasha Tudor, as a child, was greatly influenced by her father's engineering background and her mother's artistic life. She became particularly fascinated by life in the 1830's, which inspires her art, writing, and her own life. From 1938 onward, Tudor's children's books captivated a wide audience. Her fans are still intrigued by her magical stories and her romantic illustration of New England's countryside, drawn from her own experiences of family life. Her work is published in more than 90 books, which have been reprinted and republished many times. Now in her eighties, Tudor remains active in publishing, meeting her fans, and autographing her books. In loving tribute, this work is illustrated with many drawings by Tudor's daughter, Bethany, as well as rare early photos of Tudor as a young woman, by Nell Dorr, and 16 pages of color photos of Tudor's book covers. The bibliography includes every known book illustrated and/or written by Tudor, including those published in the first half of 1998. SALES RIGHTS: Worldwide.

1998, hardcover, 8.25 x 11 inches, 510 pages

ISBN 1884718590  -  Order No. 052919  -  Price: $85.00

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LEWIS CARROLL AND THE PRESS

By Charles C. Lovett

This comprehensive new work not only provides bibliographical details lacking from previous studies, it describes Dodgson's letters, articles, games, mathematical problems, and stories in such a way that the scholar without access to these rare items will gain an understanding of where Dodgson stood on various subjects and the nature of his relationship with the public via the press.

   Previously unknown Dodgson items are brought to light in this listing, and numerous early reprints are recorded for the first time. Dodgson's word puzzles "Doublets" and "Syzgies," which were published on a continuing basis in VANITY FAIR and THE LADY are fully described for the first time, and dozens of previously unknown Doublets and Syzygies are reprinted. Lovett's introductory essay discusses Dodgson's career as both a reader of periodicals and a contributor to them, and quotes extensively from one of the "lost" periodical contributions - Dodgson material which has not been reprinted. Its wealth of new material and full and proper description of what has so often been neglected in the past make LEWIS CARROLL & THE PRESS an invaluable reference for librarians, scholars, students, professors, collectors, and booksellers. Co-published with The British Library. SALES RIGHTS: Worldwide except the UK; available in the UK from The British Library.

1999, hardcover, 6.5 x 10 inches, 135 pages

ISBN 1884718876  -  Order No. 053904  -  Price: $35.00

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CHILDREN'S BOOKS IN ENGLAND, FIVE CENTURIES OF SOCIAL LIFE

By F.J. Harvey Darton

Third edition. "Not a collection of queer facts or antiquarian scripts" said Harvey Darton of his book when it was first published in 1932, but "a chronicle of the English people in their capacity of parents, guardians and educators of children." Certainly literature was his central theme, but through it he wove biography and the facts of social and commercial history. Now available again, this third (corrected) edition is at pains to provide a text that will sustain Darton's reputation for a new generation of readers. Brian Alderson has checked every detail in an effort to ensure that the work is accurate by the standards of modern scholarship, and has added a number of biographical notes. In a supplementary chapter he has filled out the discussion of children's books during the late Victorian and Edwardian periods which formed a natural end point to Darton's history, and more than sixty illustrations expand upon the text. All these changes have been made in an attempt to support the message of Darton's original work that, "children's books were always the scene of a battle between instruction and amusement, between restraint and freedom, between hesitant morality and spontaneous happiness." Co-published with The British Library. SALES RIGHTS: Available in North & South America from Oak Knoll Books. Available outside North & South America from The British Library.

1999, hardcover, 6.5 x 10 inches, 416 pages

ISBN 1884718884  -  Order No. 053551  -  Price: $49.95

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THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE'S IMMORTAL POEM

By Nancy H. Marshall

First edition. This bibliography is the first comprehensive work ever undertaken to document the publication history of the most famous work in all Christmas literature. The Night Before Christmas poem was written 180 years ago, and it has never been out of print. With more than 1,000 entries including 144 color illustrations of historic first editions, this book is a collector's dream. Mrs. Marshall has spent a lifetime collecting and organizing the works listed in this extraordinary bibliography.  Seven detailed indexes, an historical essay describing the St. Nicholas legend, Clement Moore, and the origin of the poem make this an essential reference tool for collectors of Christmas memorabilia. SALES RIGHTS: Worldwide.

2002, hardcover, 8.25 x 11 inches, 324 pages with 24 separate pages of plates in color

ISBN 1584560711  -  Order No. 069264  -  Price: $75.00

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