Who Next . . .? A Guide to Children’s Authors (2nd edition)

Guides to children’s reading are so numerous, and often so commercially driven, that anyone targeted by such things (and it is usually parents, teachers, and librarians in public and school libraries) is right to be sceptical. This is why it is good to have reliable and up to date selections made by experienced practitioners with that practical knowledge built up over time which retains its enthusiasm for new reads and readers. Norah Irvin and Lesley Cooper’s first edition of Who Next … ? appeared in 1999 and proved very useful as a way of pointing out who to read next...