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by Faye Riter Kensinger
University of Wisconsin Press, 1987
Cloth: 978-0-87972-375-0 | Paper: 978-0-87972-376-7
Library of Congress Classification PS374.C454K46 1987
Dewey Decimal Classification 813.0099282

ABOUT THIS BOOK
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Children’s series fiction comprises tales incorporating innocence and hard reality along with romance, wit, and character. Heavy streaks of morality diminished as the entertainment element increased. Heroes performed in a wide range of adventures, but restrictions often kept heroines close to home. Series fiction peaked, then waned, but such writers as Beverly Cleary and Madeleine L’Engle carried on the style.