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Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor, and translator, with some fourty books to his name. With Leonie Flynn and Susan Reuben he has edited the award-winning Ultimate Book Guide series of reading guides for children and teenagers. He is on the board of a number of organizations that deal with literature and free speech.
Anyone who wants to know more about the children's book world today will find this edition essential and one that will be dipped into time and time again. Carousel, Chris Riddell Every public library should have one [and] it is an essential purchase for any self respecting school library or English Department genuinely interested in promoting reading for pleasure. School Librarian, Joy Court the volume that Hahn has put together does a very good job in balancing the influential writers of the past with newer voices, and offering a real sense of how children's literature has grown over the years. A Hermit's Progress, Victoria Addis 07/06/2015 a vast, rich yet contained network, in which new worlds can be discovered, and old worlds savoured afresh. Times Literary Supplement, Philip Womack an erudite, passionate dictionary of children's literature that runs from Aesop to Harry Potter... excitingly up to date Daily Telegraph, Simon Mason It remains an indispensable, comprehensive and readily comprehensible Companion for old hands and new, crafted with loving care. It is a distillation of knowledge of a depth and breadth that makes you boggle anew at what one book can do. Guardian, Lucy Mangan a learned and totally addictive guide Times, Alex O'Connell This is one reference work that no one interested in the world of children's books should be without. Oxford Times, Jaine Blackman A tremendous achievement and a very worthy successor to the original. You should buy a copy. Achuka, Michael Thorn perhaps best of all, Hahn has preserved the agreeably donnish atmosphere of the original version, with its long entries on obscure authors or titles all written with love as well as erudition... I would not therefore ever want to be without the Oxford Companion, not so much despite but because of its endearing eccentricities, with its second edition admirably following up the charm and achievements of the first. Books for Keeps, Nicholas Tucker If you like children's books, there is no question about it; you need a copy of the second edition. Bookwitch, Ann Giles
