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. Summoned by Books
Essays and Speeches
by Frances Clarke Sayers |
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. Summoned by Books is a book of essays and speeches by Frances Clarke Sayers and was compiled by Marjeanne Jensen Blinn with a foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell.
. It was published by the Viking Press out of New York. While first published in 1965 from the Viking Press, earlier copyrights from various of the included works begin from 1937.
. Hard cover book with dust jacket in mylar sleeve. Price not clipped. Former library book with stamps, pocket and tags. Light shelf wear and use. Non smoking storage.
. Frances Clarke Sayers (1897-1989).
. Convinced that good books could profoundly influence children, U.S. librarian, educator, and author Frances Clarke Sayers devoted her life to juvenile literature. Her efforts earned her several honors, including the 1965 Joseph W. Lippincott Award for distinguished service in the profession of librarianship
. Back in 1965, a book was published that celebrated the joys of reading. It was entitled Summoned by Books and consisted of a collection of essays by a professor of children's literature at ucla, Frances Clarke Sayers.
. In one of the essays, written nine years before, she is writing "Of Memory and Muchness". Her word muchness is cleverly taken from the mad tea party in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, where the Dormouse asks "did you ever see such a thing as a drawing of a muchness?" Briefly, Sayers's answer is that she has had too much of "muchness" in the field of writing and publishing for the young: the exploitation of children through series books and their spinoffs and what she describes as "gigantic, stifling promotion". But it is rather obvious that in 1956 she thinks that there are too many children's books.
. I wonder what she would think of the 1990s when the publishing of children's books is considered big business.
. Measures approximately 6 x 8-1/2 x 1. 173 numbered pages.
. Wonderful, vintage find from a local Bergen County, New Jersey estate. One of many books that were willed to a local library for resale.
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