| Abstract: | Brian Alderson has been a friend of CLE since its inception, and, indeed, is to be found in its first number making some testy remarks at
the first of the famous Exeter Conferences where the journal originated. At that time he was a lecturer in Children's Literature
at the Polytechnic of North London—a position which he had reached after a circuitous journey beginning in the London book
trade. As well as lecturing in both Europe and America, Brian Alderson has engaged in various activities which relate to children's
literature: founding the Children's Books History Society and editing texts of historical interest; storytelling and translating
the tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen; mounting and cataloguing exhibitions, especially on book illustration;
and for many years he has been the Children's Books Editor ofThe Times. Most recently, Brian Alderson has been working on a two-volume study of the U.S. illustrator Ezra Jack Keats, which is being
published in the U.S.A. by The Pelican Press of Gretna, Louisiana and has just completed editing Kingsley'sThe Water-Babies. |
