Children category: 1253 books
Representing Africa in Children's Literature
Old and New Ways of Seeing
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2007
Representing Africa in Children’s Literature explores how African and Western authors portray youth in contemporary African societies, critically examining the dominant images of Africa and Africans in books published between 1960 and 2005. The book focuses on contemporary children’s and young...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Internationalism in Children's Series brings together international children's literature scholars who interpret 'internationalism' through various cultural, historical and theoretical lenses. From imperialism to transnationalism, from Tom Swift to Harry Potter, this book addresses the unique ability of series to introduce children to the world.
Italian Children’s Literature and National Identity
Childhood, Melancholy, Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
This book bridges the fields of Children’s Literature and Italian Studies by examining how turn-of-the-century children’s books forged a unified national identity for the new Italian State. Through contextualized close readings of a wide range of texts, Truglio shows how the 19th-century concept...
Theodor Geisel
A Portrait of the Man Who Became Dr. Seuss
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Dr. Seuss's infectious rhymes, fanciful creatures, and roundabout plots not only changed the way children read but imagined the world. And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, Green Eggs and Ham,The Cat and the Hat, these and other classics have sold hundreds of millions of copies and entertained...
Fictions of Integration
American Children's Literature and the Legacies of Brown v. Board of Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
This book examines how children’s and young adult literature addresses and interrogates the legacies of American school desegregation. Such literature narrates not only the famous battles to implement desegregation in the South, in places like Little Rock, Arkansas, but also more insidious and less...
New Trends in Children's Literature Research
Twenty-first Century Approaches (2000-2012) from the University of Vigo (Spain)
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
The purpose of this volume is to present the scientific background of the Children’s Literature and Translation research group, which was established in 1992 at the University of Vigo. In 2006 it was awarded the category of Excellence Research Group. The scientific activities of members over the...
by Jared Lodbell
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Eight Children in Narnia is a detailed study of C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, exploring the story’s influences, themes, symbols, ironies-and the reasons for its enormous popular success. Lobdell draws attention to insistent motifs in the work: the great house in the country, the past alive...
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...
Affect, Emotion, and Children’s Literature
Representation and Socialisation in Texts for Children and Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
This volume explores the relationship between representation, affect, and emotion in texts for children and young adults. It demonstrates how texts for young people function as tools for emotional socialisation, enculturation, and political persuasion. The collection provides an introduction to this...
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...
Nordic Childhoods 1700–1960
From Folk Beliefs to Pippi Longstocking
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
This volume strengthens interest and research in the fields of both Childhood Studies and Nordic Studies by exploring conceptions of children and childhood in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden). Although some books have been written about the history of childhood...
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...
Cake Decorating with the Kids
30 Modern Cakes and Bakes for All the Family to Make
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Cake Decorating with the Kids: Get messy in the kitchen with 30 gorgeous, easy-to-follow contemporary cake decorating projects to make at home with the kids. Children of all ages will love to get involved and take charge of spreading the fillings and toppings, rolling out fondant icing, cutting shapes...
The Mythology of the Animal Farm in Children's Literature
Over the Fence
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
The Mythology of the Animal Farm in Children’s Literature: Over the Fence analyzes the ways in which myths about farmed animals’ lives are perpetuated in children’s materials. Specifically, this book investigates the use of five recurring thematic devices in about eighty books for young children...