by Julia Eccleshare · National Portrait Gallery · tapa dura · ISBN 9781855143425
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«Beatrix Potter to Harry Potter» is an illustrated essay by Julia Eccleshare, published by National Portrait Gallery in hardback (136 pp., in English).
The essay surveys a century of British children's literature through more than fifty portraits of writers and illustrators from the National Portrait Gallery's collections. Divided into twenty-year periods, it ranges from Beatrix Potter and A. A. Milne to J. K. Rowling; reproduced pieces include photographs, paintings, drawings, sculptures, manuscripts, and first-edition covers.
The subtitle is «Portraits of Children's Writers» and the volume includes a foreword by Anne Fine; the edition was published in 2006.
A title for those who want to get to know the leading British children's authors through their portraits.
