The Oxford Book of Children's Stories by Jan Mark

The Oxford Book of Children's Stories by Jan Mark

A collection of some of the notable stories written for children over the last 250 years. With contributions by 44 authors, it aims to cover the full history of children's writing and includes works by such writers as Rudyard Kipling, E. Nesbit and Louisa May Alcott.

Jan Mark is a distinguished children's writer, specializing in short stories. She has won a number of awards for her work, including the Library Assocation Carnegie Medal on two occasions. Her collections of short stories include Nothing to be Afraid Of, Feet and Other Stories, and Enough is Too
Much Already. Jan Mark is a distinguished children's writer, specializing in short stories. Since her first novel, 'Thunder and Lightnings', was published in 1976, she has won a number of awards for her work, including the Library Assocation Carnegie Medal on two occasions. Her collections of short
stories include 'Nothing to be Afraid Of', 'Feet and Other Stories', 'Enough is Too Much Already', 'A Can of Worms', and 'In Black and White and Other Stories'. For adults she has published 'Two Stories' and a novel 'Zeno was Here'.

She has also written for radio and television, and she frequently visits schools and colleges to speak about writing. Since childhood she has read and collected nineteenth- and early twentieth-century children's fiction. She lives in Oxford.

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ISBN 13	9780192142283
ISBN 10	0192142283
Title	The Oxford Book of Children's Stories
Author	Jan Mark
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	1993-11-01
Number of pages	469
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