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  • Contributors' Notes

Natalie Babbitt was born in Ohio and began her work in children's literature as an illustrator. She has written 10 books for children, including The Devil's Storybook, Tuck Everlasting, and Herbert Rowbarge. She is currently at work on a new collection of Devil stories.

Hamida Bosmajian is a Professor of English and department chairperson at Seattle University in Washington. She is the author of Metaphors of Evil —Contemporary German Literature and the Shadow of Nazism (U of Iowa P, 1979), and "Vastness and Contraction of Space in Little House on the Prairie," Children's Literature 11 (1983). She is involved in research on children's literature and historical trauma, and presented a paper entitled "The Nightmare of History—the Outer Limits of Children's Literature" at the annual Children's Literature Association Conference, 1983.

Hans-Heino Ewers is a Professor of German and Children's Literature at the University of Bonn. He has written a history of the origins of German children's literature in the eighteenth century and numerous articles on German children's literature and romanticism. His most recent book is a two-volume collection of children's and youth literature during the Romantic period in Germany.

Nancy Tillman Fetz, a former librarian and children's bookstore owner, is presently a doctoral candidate at the University of Iowa, where she team-teaches a course on American children's books. She has worked extensively in the area of German children's literature and has published bibliographies for the German Library Association and the American Library Association.

Lois R. Kuznets is an Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University. She has written numerous [End Page 112] articles on children's literature and is currently at work on a book on Kenneth Grahame for Twayne's English Authors series.

Anita Moss teaches children's literature, literature for adolescents, and other literature courses at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has written numerous articles and reviews about children's literature and has just completed a book on E. Nesbit.

Roni Natov is co-founder and co-editor of The Lion and the Unicorn. She is an Associate Professor of English at Brooklyn College and has published widely in the field of children's literature. She is currently working on a book about autobiographical stories for children and young adults.

Peter F. Neumeyer has published four children's books and currently teaches children's literature at San Diego State University.

Suzanne Rahn teaches children's literature in the English Department of Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, and is the author of Children's Literature: An Annotated Bibliography of the History and Criticism (Garland, 1981). She has recently published articles on Beatrix Potter, John Ruskin, and E. Nesbit.

Paul O. Zelinsky, who designed the cover for this volume, is the illustrator and writer of a variety of noted books for children, among them the Newbery Award-winning Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary, and the 1985 Caldecott Honor Book Hansel and Gretel, retold by Rika Lesser. He wrote and illustrated The Lion and the Stoat, and his most recent work of illustration, The Story of Mrs. Lovewright and Purrless Her Cat, written by Lore Segal, was the New York Times Best Illustrated Book for 1985. His retold and newly illustrated Rumpelstiltskin will be published soon. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and daughter. [End Page 113]

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