Children category: 1253 books
Books for Children, Books for Adults
Age and the Novel from Defoe to James
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
In this groundbreaking and wide-ranging study, Teresa Michals explores why some books originally written for a mixed-age audience, such as Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, eventually became children's literature, while others, such as Samuel Richardson's Pamela, became adult novels. Michals considers...
by Maria Nikolajeva, Carole Scott
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
How Picturebooks Work is an innovative and engaging look at the interplay between text and image in picturebooks. The authors explore picturebooks as a specific medium or genre in literature and culture, one that prepares children for other media of communication, and they argue that picturebooks...
Imagining Sameness and Difference in Children's Literature
From the Enlightenment to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This book investigates how cultural sameness and difference has been presented in a variety of forms and genres of children’s literature from Denmark, Germany, France, Russia, Britain, and the United States; ranging from English caricatures of the 1780s to dynamic representations of contemporary...
Genocide in Contemporary Children's and Young Adult Literature
Cambodia to Darfur
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
This book studies children’s and young adult literature of genocide since 1945, considering issues of representation and using postcolonial theory to provide both literary analysis and implications for educating the young. Many of the authors visited accurately and authentically portray the genocide...
Children in Culture, Revisited
Further Approaches to Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Children in Culture, Revisited follows on from the first volume, Children in Culture , and is composed of a range of chapters, newly written for this collection, which offer further fully inter- and multidisciplinary considerations of childhood as a culturally and historically constructed identity rather than a constant psycho-biological entity.
Transcending Boundaries
Writing for a Dual Audience of Children and Adults
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Transcending Boundaries: Writing for a Dual Audience of Children and Adults is a collection of essays on twentieth-century authors who cross the borders between adult and children's literature and appeal to both audiences. This collection of fourteen essays by scholars from eight countries constitutes...
Oz behind the Iron Curtain
Aleksandr Volkov and His Magic Land Series
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Faculty Research Achievement Award in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Syracuse University
In 1939, Aleksandr Volkov (1891-1977) published Wizard of the Emerald City, a revised version of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz....
by Dennis E. Adonis
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2014
This book is the beginning of a series of children literature focused on helping children to better understand the fundamental aspects of computers. Children at the age of 2 to 4 (and even beyond) are more inclined to learn from stories rather than a direct instructional method. It would be...
by A. Ratelle
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Examining culturally significant works of children's culture through a posthumanist, or animality studies lens, Animality and Children's Literature and Film argues that Western philosophy's objective to establish a notion of an exclusively human subjectivity is continually countered in the very texts that ostensibly work to this end.
Mothers in Children's and Young Adult Literature
From the Eighteenth Century to Postfeminism
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Living or dead, present or absent, sadly dysfunctional or merrily adequate, the figure of the mother bears enormous freight across a child's emotional and intellectual life. Given the vital role literary mothers play in books for young readers, it is remarkable how little scholarly attention has been...
The Courage to Imagine
The Child Hero in Children's Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The act of imagining lies at the very heart of children's engagements with literature and with the plots and characters they encounter in their favorite stories. The Courage to Imagine is a landmark new study of that fundamental act of imagining. Roni Natov focuses on the ways in which children's...
Boys in Children's Literature and Popular Culture
Masculinity, Abjection, and the Fictional Child
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Boys in Children’s Literature and Popular Culture proposes new theoretical frameworks for understanding the contradictory ways masculinity is represented in popular texts consumed by boys in the United States. The popular texts boys like are often ignored by educators and scholars, or are simply...
by Beatrix Potter
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding is a children's book written and illustrated by the famous author of children's stories: Beatrix Potter: first published by Frederick Warne & Co. in October 1908 as The Roly-Poly Pudding. In 1926, it was re-published as The Tale of Samuel...
The Embodied Child
Readings in Children’s Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
The Embodied Child: Readings in Children’s Literature and Culture brings together essays that offer compelling analyses of children’s bodies as they read and are read, as they interact with literature and other cultural artifacts, and as they are constructed in literature and popular culture....