Janet Adam Smith (1905–1999) was a Scottish writer and critic. Educated at Oxford, she worked as an editor at a number of literary publications, including The Listener, The Criterion and New Statesman. She also edited the Faber Book of Modern Verse and its companion volume, the Faber Book of Children’s Verse. An accomplished mountaineer, Smith wrote about her adventures in Mountain Holidays; her other books include Life Among the Scots and John Buchnan and His World.
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The Real RLS
March 3, 1994
Dreams of Exile: Robert Louis Stevenson, A Biography by Ian Bell
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Yrs. Aff. Beatrix Potter
May 28, 1992
Letters to Children from Beatrix Potter Collected and introduced by Judy Taylor
Letters to Children by Beatrix Potter, foreword by Philip Hofer
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Hard Times
June 27, 1991
The Diaries of Hans Christian Andersen selected and translated by Patricia L. Conroy, by Sven H. Rossel
The Kiss of the Snow Queen: Hans Christian Andersen and Man’s Redemption by Woman by Wolfgang Lederer
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Rackhamland
December 20, 1990
Arthur Rackham: A Biography by James Hamilton
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Poohdom
September 27, 1990
A.A. Milne: The Man Behind Winnie-the-Pooh by Ann Thwaite
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Life After Squirrel Nutkin
June 14, 1990
Beatrix Potter’s Letters selected by Judy Taylor
The Journal of Beatrix Potter, 18811897 transcribed from her code writings by Leslie Linder, foreword by Judy Taylor
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Unchildish Activities
April 26, 1990
Don’t Tell the Grown-ups: Subversive Children’s Literature by Alison Lurie
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Not So Grimm
November 24, 1988
Dear Mili: An Old Tale by Wilhelm Grimm, translated by Ralph Manheim, pictures by Maurice Sendak
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Cleaning Up Snow White
December 3, 1987
Grimms’ Bad Girls and Bold Boys: The Moral and Social Vision of the Tales by Ruth B. Bottigheimer
The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar
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Big Little Books
June 27, 1985
Secret Gardens: A Study of the Golden Age of Children’s Literature by Humphrey Carpenter
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Great Scot
April 1, 1976
Cockburn’s Millennium by Karl Miller
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Exodus
April 18, 1974
Watership Down by Richard Adams
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Does Frodo Live?
December 14, 1972
Master of Middle-earth: The Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien by Paul H. Kocher
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings, Vol. II: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings, Vol. III: The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
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The Great God Wish
December 2, 1971
Paths through the Forest: A Biography of the Brothers Grimm by Murray B. Peppard
Transformations by Anne Sexton
About Wise Men and Simpletons: Twelve Tales from Grimm translated by Elizabeth Shub
Friend Monkey by P.L. Travers
A Game of Dark by William Mayne
The Third Road by Martha Bacon
Squib by Nina Bawden
Innocent Grove by Geoffrey Wagner
The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
Children and Fiction by Wallace Hildick
Bear Circus by William Pène du Bois
The Beast of Monsieur Racine
by Tomi Ungerer
How the Mouse Was Hit on the Head by a Stone and so Discovered the World by Etienne Delessert
The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine by Donald Barthelme
Tooni the Elephant Boy by Astrid Bergman Sucksdorff
One Misty Moisty Morning: Rhymes from Mother Goose pictures by Mitchell Miller
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Inscapist
December 15, 1966
The Journal of Beatrix Potter from 1881 to 1897 transcribed from her code writing by Leslie Linder
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Engines of Mischief: The Best Children’s Books of 1964
December 3, 1964
Wally the Wordworm by Clifton Fadiman
The Untold Adventures of Santa Claus by Ogden Nash
How to Catch a Crocodile by Robert Pack
How the Whale Became by Ted Hughes
Squawky by Stephen Potter
Tom and Tabby by John Symonds
Elisabeth the Cow Ghost by William Pène du Bois
The Young Man Who Wouldn’t Hoe Corn by Eric von Schmidt
The King Who Loved Candy by Peter Hughes
Meeting with a Stranger by Duane Bradley
The Takula Tree by Elizabeth P. Fleming
Children of Africa by Louise A. Stinetorf
The Letter on the Tree by Natalie Savage Carlson
A Day Without Wind by William Mayne
The Coriander by Eilis Dillon
The Alley by Eleanor Estes
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
I Go by Sea, I Go by Land by P.L. Travers
Knights Beseiged by Nancy Faulkner
Save the Khan by B. Bartos-Höppner
The Burning of Njal by Henry Treece
The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
To Catch a Spy by Amelia Elizabeth Walden