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Origami Activities for Children
Make Simple Origami-for-Kids Projects with This Easy Origami Book:Origami Book with 20 Fun Projects
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Make simple origami-for-kids projects with this easy origami book.
Ideal for home or school use, Origami Activities for Children is a classic origami paper craft book that includes fun projects organized by seasons and U.S. holidays and offers varying levels of difficulty so that every child—from...
Make and Takes for Kids
50 Crafts Throughout the Year
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
50 seasonal projects to make with kids
Highlighting the best of each month of the year, Make and Takes for Kids offers 50 projects to make with kids, each centered around an upcoming holiday or season. The ideas are unique and simple to produce, and each project is thoughtfully constructed...
by Arthur Groom
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
The vintage book contains a complete guide to writing children's literature, and includes wealth of information on every aspect of writing books and plays for young people. Although old, the contents of this volume will be of considerable utility to modern readers with an interest in the subject....
by Maria Edgeworth
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Maria Edgeworth was a pioneer of realist children's literature. This critical edition reveals the range of her writing for children, ranging from stories for very young children to tales for young adults, and includes The Purple Jar, The Good Aunt and The Grateful Negro. Annotated with a comprehensive introduction based on original research.
by Robert Browning
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin – with Kate Greenaway illustrations’ is a tale concerning the mysterious disappearance of a great number of children from a town in Lower Saxony, Germany – originating in the Middle Ages. This particular version (in the form of a children’s poem) is penned by Robert...
Struwwelpeter: Humor or Horror?
160 Years Later
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006
A recent upsurge in interest in Der Struwwelpeter, written by Heinrich Hoffman has initiated a new wave of spin-offs, parodies, and retellings of these immensely popular stories. Hoffman's style, which is instructive and moralistic, coupled with the sadistic content of his works lend a unique quality...
by Beatrix Potter
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher is a children's book written and illustrated by the famous author of children's stories: Beatrix Potter: The tale reflects her love for the Lake District and her admiration for children's illustrator Randolph Caldecott. Jeremy Fisher is a frog who lives in a "slippy-sloppy"...
From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood
Children's Literature and the Construction of Canadian Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
As Canada came to terms with its role as an independent nation following Confederation in 1867, there was a call for a literary voice to express the needs and desires of a new country. Children’s literature was one of the means through which this new voice found expression. Seen as a tool for both...
by Yasser Osman, Sara Osman, Yara Osman
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Management and managing situations is a day-to-day action that we experience and handle from our childhood and throughout our life. Growing up we have to manage our homework, relationships, exams, applications to college, bosses at work, difficult situations, and finally some of us become project...
Visual Journeys Through Wordless Narratives
An International Inquiry With Immigrant Children and The Arrival
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Winner of the Literacy Research Association's 2015 Edward B. Fry Book Award
Immigration is an ongoing, global phenomenon and schools and teachers in host countries must continually find new ways of working with the increasing numbers of immigrant pupils, including refugees and asylum seekers....
by Maria Nikolajeva
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
This book considers one of the most controversial aspects of children’s and young adult literature: its use as an instrument of power. Children in contemporary Western society are oppressed and powerless, yet they are allowed, in fiction written by adults for the enlightenment and enjoyment of...
Art Lab for Kids: 52 Creative Adventures in Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Paper, and Mixed Media-For Budding Artists
52 Creative Adventures in Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Paper, and Mixed Media?For Budding Artists
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
"Susan Schwake's Art Lab for Kids is a well-thought-out guide, making it easy to introduce art into children's lives. Simple, clear explanations of technique, combined with inspiration from established artists, will enable children to feel successful and encouraged to explore art as a form of...
by Maria Sachiko Cecire, Hannah Field, Malini Roy
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Focusing on questions of space and locale in children’s literature, this collection explores how metaphorical and physical space can create landscapes of power, knowledge, and identity in texts from the early nineteenth century to the present. The collection is comprised of four sections that take...
Empire's Children
Empire and Imperialism in Classic British Children's Books
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Empire's Children looks at works at by Rudyard Kipling, Frances Hodgson Burnett, E. Nesbit, Hugh Lofting, A.A. Milne, and Arthur Ransome for the ways these writers consciously and unconsciously used the metaphors of empire in their writing for children.