Description: "...an excellent summary of Newbery's achievements as a publisher and bookseller...attractively illustrated...an excellent and readable account of a man who was an innovator...recommended to the student of children's literature and the general reader alike." -- Australian Library Journal "...an exceptionally lively and honest portrait. This is an indispensable source for anyone who cares about children's books, lucid, affectionate, and scrupulously scholarly." -- Joys "...a thoughtful introduction to this enterprising gentleman in the context of eighteenth-century Enlightenment." -- The Horn Book Magazine "Invaluable for students and teachers of children's literature." --J. Benardete, CUNY Hunter College

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