TRAVELERS IN TIME - Past, Present and to Come by Harrison, Barbara (introduction) (Paul Heins; Jill Paton Walsh; Leon Garfield; Virginia Hamilton; Diana Paolitto; Gregory Maguire; Peter Dickinson; Penelope Lively; Betty Levin; Philippa Pearce; David Lowenthal; John Rowe Townsend; Susan Cooper) - 1990

Cambridge, England: Green Bay - CLNE, 1990. 180 pp. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. In August 1989 two hundred intrepid travelers gathered at Newnham College, Cambridge, England to examine children's books in which time plays a central and animating role. The institute brought together a rare assemblage of talent from both sides of the Atlantic. This book contains the major contributions to the conference, an anthology of essays: Preface and Introduction by Barbara Harrison; Narrative Time by Paul Heins and Jill Paton Walsh; Historians and Storytellers by Leon Garfield; Take Your Time by Virginia Hamilton; The Child's Perception of Time in Children's Books by Diana Paolitto; Memory by Gregory Maguire; Time and Times and Half a Time by Peter Dickinson; A Continuous Present Penelope Lively and Betty Levin; Time Present by Philippa Pearce; The Past Is a Childlike Country by David Lowenthal; Slippery Time by John Rowe Townsend; Long Ago and Far Away by Susan Cooper; The Pleasures and Problems of Time Fantasy by Eleanor Cameron; Past and Future - Time's Eye by Betty Levin; Dreamtime by Neil Philip; Pictures on the Page by Shirley Hughes; Time Thirst by Jane Langton; Picture Book Time by Ethel Heins; History and Time by Rosemary Sutcliff; The Time of My Life by Katherine Paterson; and Synthesis by Betty Levin and Gregory Maguire; followed by Appendices: Biographies; Reading List; and Calendar.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.