The Man Who Loved Children is a 1940 novel by Australian writer Christina Stead. It was not until a reissue edition in 1965, with an introduction by poet Randall Jarrell, that it found widespread critical acclaim and popularity. Time magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.[1] The novel has been championed by novelists Jonathan Franzen and Angela Carter. Carter believed Stead's other novels Cotters England and A Little Tea, A Little Chat and For Love Alone to be as good, if not better than The Man Who Loved Children.