Record Added: 12/14/2018 Setting  England Topic Children's Fiction, Class Collection of Stories Publisher Dodd, Mead, and Company ISBN 1122687478 Year 1922 Age 9-12 Pages 174 Description Printed dustjacket
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The Golden Age was called "one of the few books which are well-nigh too praiseworthy for praise. The art of writing adequately and receptively about children is among the rarest and most precious of all arts." In its pages, alive with memories of the author's boyhood, a troupe of clever and imaginative youngsters carry out their pranks and adventures, evoking youth for every reader.
To illustrate these tender and mischievous reminiscences, there is a new series of drawings depicting the scenes and characters of the stories. These were made especially for this edition by Ernest H. Shepard, whose art reveals that rare duality of appeal to both youth and adult, to each of whom the classics of Kenneth Grahame are perennially addressed. |
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