How did you edit The Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature?
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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2015 · Education
Daniel Hahn, editor of the new edition of The Oxford Companion of Children’s Literature, talks to award-winning author Gillian Cross about the process behind updating the companion for a new readership. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199695140.do Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor, and translator, with some forty books to his name. He has worked as editor on the following: The Oxford Companion to English Literature, The Good Fiction Guide, The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland, and The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. He is currently Chair of the Society of Authors. Gillian Cross is winner of the Cargegie Medal, the Smarties Prize, and the Whitbread Children's Novel Award, as well as many other children's book prizes © Oxford University Press
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