Signal 94 Approaches to Children's Books January 2001

Paperback. 74pp. Periodical of literary criticism on children’s literature. Includes: an essay on Enid Blyton; the Patrick Hardy Lecture by Jacqueline Wilson; Odysseys: The Childness of Journeying Children; a two page biographical notes on Ethel Talbot, best known for her Girl Guiding stories, by her nephew David Grugeon together with the first 6 chapters of Brethren Child by Ethel Talbot, an fictionalised memoir of her early life in the Plymouth Brethren community (including a black and white photograph of Ethel Talbot with her siblings); more of Brethren’s Child was published in later issues of Signal.