An Anthology of Radical Writing for Children 1900-1960

Edited by Kimberley Reynolds, Jane Rosen, and Michael Rosen

• Reveals the little-known genre of politically committed children’s publications in inter-war and post-war Britain
• Presents more than 50 examples and extracts, from picture books, plays, song-books, novels, pamphlets
• Arranged in fourteen thematic sections, each with an introduction capturing what it was like to read these books and attend performances of left-wing songs and stories as a child growing up in this period
• Covers the full age spectrum of young readers, from pre-school children to adolescents
• Includes a preface by the journalist and writer Polly Toynbee