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Little Nippers
''Nippers'' was a children's book series for early readers established by Leila Berg and published by Macmillan Educational in the United Kingdom from 1968 to 1983. The series deliberately featured working-class characters and settings. History Berg, who contributed many titles to the series herself, explained her motivation in a letter to the ''Times Literary Supplement'': The series encountered opposition, "on the grounds that children were being given what they already knew and that the vocabulary of the stories was impoverished and limiting". Nevertherless, ''Nippers'' became firmly established. ''Little Nippers'', a series for younger children, followed in 1972. In the early 1970s, Berg also recruited several Black authors to write for Nippers, including Beryl Gilroy and Petronella Breinburg. Other contributors included J. L. Carr, Charles Causley, Mary Cockett, Helen Cresswell, Joan Eadington, Nigel Gray, Trevor Griffiths, Geraldine Kaye, Janet McNeill, Helen Solomon and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leila Berg
Leila Berg (12 November 1917 – 17 April 2012) was an English children's author. She was also known as a journalist and a writer on education and children's rights. Berg was a recipient of the Eleanor Farjeon Award. Biography Berg was brought up in Salford, Lancashire, in a Jewish doctor's family. She wrote vividly about that part of her life in ''Flickerbook'' (1997), describing also later meetings in Cambridge through her older brother, particularly with Margot Heinemann and J. B. S. Haldane, whom she would reference obliquely in the early ''Chunky'' books. She associated with Britain's Young Communist League members at the time of the Spanish Civil War, in which she lost two lovers, and eventually joined the movement. Her first journalist's job was with the British communist daily the ''Daily Worker''. Berg was influenced in her thinking by the psychologist Susan Isaacs. After working as a journalist in World War II, during which she married and started a family, she began ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |