Children category: 1253 books
by Christine Wilkie-Stibbs
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
The Outside Child, In and Out of the Book is situated at the intersection between children’s literature studies and childhood studies. In this provocative book, Christine Wilkie-Stibbs juxtaposes the narratives of literary and actual children/young adults to explore how Western culture has imagined,...
Four British Fantasists
Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2006
Four British Fantasists explores the work of four of the most successful and influential fantasy writers of the generation who rose to prominence in the "second Golden Age" of children's literature in Britain: Susan Cooper, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Penelope Lively. Drawing on...
Textual Transformations in Children's Literature
Adaptations, Translations, Reconsiderations
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
This book offers new critical approaches for the study of adaptations, abridgments, translations, parodies, and mash-ups that occur internationally in contemporary children’s culture. It follows recent shifts in adaptation studies that call for a move beyond fidelity criticism, a paradigm that measures...
Constructing the Canon of Children's Literature
Beyond Library Walls and Ivory Towers
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2004
In this pioneering historical study, Anne Lundin argues that schools, libraries, professional organizations, and the media together create and influence the constantly changing canon of children's literature. Lundin examines the circumstances out of which the canon emerges, and its effect on the production...
A Literature of Questions
Nonfiction for the Critical Child
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Nonfiction books for children—from biographies and historical accounts of communities and events to works on science and social justice—have traditionally been most highly valued by educators and parents for their factual accuracy. This approach, however, misses an opportunity for young readers...
by Connie R. Green, Sandra Brenneman Oldendorf
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
This book is an invaluable resource for enabling teachers, religious educators, and families to learn about religious diversity themselves and to teach children about both their own religion as well as the beliefs of others. The traditions featured include indigenous beliefs throughout the world, Native...
by Elwyn Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
This is the first full-length study of South African English youth literature to cover the entire period of its publication, from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. Jenkins' book focuses on what made the subsequent literature essentially South African and what aspects of...
Of Sneetches and Whos and the Good Dr. Seuss
Essays On the Writings and Life of Theodor Geisel
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Children and adults alike remember Dr. Seuss's cat in the hat, the culinary delight to be found in green eggs and ham and the fate of the Grinch who stole Christmas. What few know is that Theodor Seuss Geisel's first book came to him while returning from Europe aboard an ocean liner; he found himself...
Over the River and Through the Wood
An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Children's Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Over the River and Through the Wood is the first and only collection of its kind, offering readers an unequaled view of the quality and diversity of nineteenth-century American children's poetry. Most American poets wrote for children—from famous names such as Ralph Waldo Emerson to less familiar...
Barking with the Big Dogs
On Writing and Reading Books for Children
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
In this collection of essays and speeches written over the course of four decades, beloved storyteller Natalie Babbitt explores what it was like to be a “little dog” in the literary world, continually being forced to justify her choice to write books for children—instead of doing something more...
by Beatrix Potter
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
The Tailor of Gloucester is a children's book written and illustrated by the famous author of children's stories: Beatrix Potter: The story is about a tailor whose work on a waistcoat is finished by the grateful mice he rescues from his cat and was based on a real world incident involving a tailor...
by Michelle Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Solve a mystery and find a home at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Enhance instruction and allow for much deeper conversations to keep students engaged. Imagine who the character of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler will be and what role she will play in the story. Put the Kincaid children's actions in the...
by Madelyn Travis
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
In a period of ongoing debate about faith, identity, migration and culture, this timely study explores the often politicised nature of constructions of one of Britain’s longest standing minority communities. Representations in children’s literature influenced by the impact of the Enlightenment,...
The Complete ACOA Sourcebook
Adult Children of Alcoholics at Home, at Work and in Love
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
When they were first released in the 1980s, Janet Woititz's groundbreaking works, Adult Children of Alcoholics, Struggle for Intimacy and The Self-Sabotage Syndrome, provided a new message of hope to adult children who had grown up in the shadow of alcoholic parents. Their message today is as profound...