Fourteen Revisited

Includes the entire text of Donald Measham's 'Fourteen: Autobiography of an Age Group' (Cambridge University Press 1965) one of the classic collections of the UK Children's Writing movement. It was widely reviewed: 'D C Measham an understanding and perceptive teacher in a British secondary school has given us all a warm and touching view of young people. In vigorous straightforward style the authors unfolded their stories and the result is now a lovely little book' Chicago Daily News (1965). The present expanded and reappraised work includes a 2008 Preface on teaching English in the 60s; a 1990 Afterword stemming from a reunion when the author met the now middle-aged autobiographers again; and for the first time samples of the work shown in facsimile. The new cover is based on a snapshot of a class day out taken by one of the pupils.