Children’s Fiction Series: A Bibliography, 1850‐1950

This 300‐page volume looks as though it is going to be a treasure trove of titles, and simple nostalgia for British librarians of a certain age. Unfortunately they will be disappointed, because by‐and‐large it is a book of US children’s fiction series, and in fact it does not claim to be anything else. The bibliography is aimed at book collectors, dealers, librarians and researchers, and the author’s preface states that it concentrates on the period 1890‐1950 (despite the title). The focus, as the title states, is on series, although the author says that when a novel was very successful and...