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Charles Cadman Butler (born 25 January 1963 in Romsey, Hampshire) is an English academic and author of children's fiction. Butler's most important academic work, ''Four British fantasists : place and culture in the children's fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper'' won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (2009) in the Mythopoeic Scholarship category and is in 236 libraries according to WorldCat,〔()〕 and has been reviewed in the standard book review sources,〔'' CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries'' Dec 2006 v44 i4 p645,〕〔'' School Library Journal '' Oct 2006 v52 i10 p192〕〔'' Reference & Research Book News'' August 2006〕 and academic journals,:〔''Children's Literature Association Quarterly'', 32, no. 3 (2007): 273-275,〕〔'' Children's Literature Annual'' 2008 v36 p251(6)〕〔''Marvels & tales.'' (Wayne State University Press) 21, no. 1, (2007) 172〕 Another academic work, ''Teaching Children's Fiction'' is in 148 libraries. . And for Butler's fiction: ''Timon's Tide'' is his most widely held and reviewed: over 300 libraries & reviews in, 〔'' Publishers Weekly'' July 3, 2000〕〔''Center for Children's Books Bulletin'' Sept 2000 v54 p9,〕〔''Kirkus Reviews'' June 1, 2000 v68 p792〕〔'' School Library Journal'' June 2000 v46 i6 p142,〕〔'' School Librarian'' Summer 1999 v47 p98〕〔'' Voice of Youth Advocates'' June 2000 v23 p123〕 Among his other fiction, ''Death of a ghost'', ''The fetch of Mardy Watt'', ''Calypso dreaming'', ''The Lurkers'', are each in about 100 libraries and with journal reviews. Butler's works include: *''Female Replies to Swetnam the Woman-Hater'', ed. (Thoemmes, 1995) *''The Darkling'' (Orion, 1997) *''Timon's Tide'' (Orion, 1998) *''Calypso Dreaming'' (HarperCollins, 2002) *''The Fetch of Mardy Watt'' (HarperCollins, 2004) *''Death of a Ghost'' (HarperCollins, 2006) *''The Lurkers'' (Usborne, 2006) *''Teaching Children's Fiction'', ed. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) *''Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones and Susan Cooper'' (Scarecrow/ChLA, 2006). This book won one of the 2009 Mythopoeic Awards, for Myth and Fantasy Studies. *''Kiss of Death'' (Barrington Stoke, 2007) *''Hand of Blood'' (Barrington Stoke, 2009) As Catherine Butler: *''Reading History in Children's Books'', with Hallie O'Donovan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) *''Roald Dahl: A New Casebook'', ed. with Ann Alston (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) *''Twisted Winter'', ed. (A & C Black, 2013) Butler is the sibling of Martin Butler and the grandchild of Montagu C. Butler. == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Butler (author)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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