For the Childlike
George MacDonald's Fantasies for Children
Co-published with: Children's Literature Association

Edited by Roderick McGillis

SUBJECTS
Literature » Children's & Young Adult Literature
Library & Information Science » Children's & Young Adult Services
Children's & Young Adult Services » Children's & Young Adult Services (General)
Children's & Young Adult Services » Curriculum & Instruction
Literature » Literary Criticism
Children's & Young Adult Services » Literary Criticism
Literature » Science Fiction & Fantasy

REVIEWS
"Roderick McGillis' excellent collection of new and reprinted articles on MacDonald's fantasies for children has greatly increased my appreciation of the author's technical skill, intellectual capacity, and moral seriousness. McGillis has put together an excellent selection of MacDonald criticism. This volume belongs in any library with serious holdings in either children's or Victorian literature and should give both pleasure and insight to those familiar with MacDonald's fiction. " — SFRA REVIEW

DESCRIPTION
George MacDonald (1824-1905) is one of the great Victorians, friend to John Ruskin, Lewis Carroll, and Arthur Hughes, among others. He wrote in virtually all the genres--fiction, drama, sermons, poetry, criticism, fantasy--but is perhaps best remembered as one of the greatest and most enduringly influential of the Victorian writers for children. Sixteen essays--five reprints and eleven original--analyze MacDonald's work for children. All the full-length fantasies--At the Back of the North Wind, The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, The Lost Princess--and the major short pieces--"The Light Princess," "The Golden Key," "Cross Purposes," "The Giant's Heart" receive extended commentary.

Contributors: Celia Anderson, Melba Battin, A. Waller Hastings, Cynthia Marshall, Rod McGillis, Michael Mendelson, Nancy-Lou Patterson, Stephen Prickett, William Raeper, Frank Riga, Cordelia Sherman, Joseph Sigman, Lesley Smith, and Nancy Willard.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Roderick McGillis, Professor of English, University of Calgary, is former editor of the Children's Literature Association Quarterly and recently edited the Oxford World's Classics edition of MacDonald's Princess books (1990).

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