Charles Butler (author)
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Charles Cadman Butler is an English
academic and author
of children's fiction
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His most important academic work, Four British fantasists : place and culture in the children's fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper is in 236 libraries according to WorldCat
, and has been reviewed in the standard book review sources, and academic journals,: Another academic work, Teaching Children's Fiction is in 148 libraries. . And for his fiction: Timon's Tide is his most widely held and reviewed: over 300 libraries & reviews in,,, Among his other fiction, Death of a ghost , The fetch of Mardy Watt , Calypso dreaming, The Lurkers, are eachl in about 100 libraries and with journal reviews
Butler's works include:
Butler is the sibling of Martin Butler (composer)
and the grandchild of Montagu C. Butler
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England
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academic and author
Author
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of children's fiction
Children's literature
Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve; it is often defined in four different ways: books written by children, books written for children, books chosen by children, or books chosen for children. It is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes...
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His most important academic work, Four British fantasists : place and culture in the children's fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper is in 236 libraries according to WorldCat
WorldCat
WorldCat is a union catalog which itemizes the collections of 72,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories which participate in the Online Computer Library Center global cooperative...
, and has been reviewed in the standard book review sources, and academic journals,: Another academic work, Teaching Children's Fiction is in 148 libraries. . And for his fiction: Timon's Tide is his most widely held and reviewed: over 300 libraries & reviews in,,, Among his other fiction, Death of a ghost , The fetch of Mardy Watt , Calypso dreaming, The Lurkers, are eachl in about 100 libraries and with journal reviews
Butler's works include:
- Female Replies to Swetnam the Woman-Hater, ed. (Thoemmes, 1995)
- The Darkling (Orion, 1997)
- Timon's Tide (Orion, 1998)
- Calypso Dreaming (HarperCollins, 2002)
- The Fetch of Mardy Watt (HarperCollins, 2004)
- Death of a Ghost (HarperCollins, 2006)
- The Lurkers (Usborne, 2006)
- Teaching Children's Fiction, ed. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
- Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones and Susan Cooper (Scarecrow/ChLA, 2006). This book won one of the 2009 Mythopoeic AwardsMythopoeic AwardsThe Mythopoeic Awards for literature and literary studies are given by the Mythopoeic Society to authors of outstanding works in the fields of myth, fantasy, and the scholarly study of these areas; the full criteria and description can be read on the Mythopoeic Society's -Mythopoeic Fantasy...
, for Myth and Fantasy Studies. - Kiss of Death (Barrington Stoke, 2007)
- Hand of Blood (Barrington Stoke, 2009)
Butler is the sibling of Martin Butler (composer)
Martin Butler (composer)
Martin Butler is a musician and composer of classical music. He studied at the University of Manchester and the Royal Northern College of Music...
and the grandchild of Montagu C. Butler
Montagu C. Butler
Montagu Christie Butler, was a British academic, librarian and musician. A winner of several prizes at the Royal Academy of Music in London, he was a harpist and a versatile music teacher skilled in playing various musical instruments, as well as a teacher of voice and of musical composition.He...
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