Children category: 1253 books
Here Comes the Bogeyman
Exploring contemporary issues in writing for children
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Here Comes the Bogeyman is an essential text focussing on critical and contemporary issues surrounding writing for children. Containing a critically creative and a creatively critical investigation of the cult and culture of the child and childhood in fiction and non-fictional writing, it also contains...
The Children's Book Business
Lessons from the Long Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
In The Children’s Book Business, Lissa Paul constructs a new kind of book biography. By focusing on Eliza Fenwick’s1805 product-placement novel, Visits to the Juvenile Library, in the context of Marjorie Moon’s 1990 bibliography, Benjamin Tabart’s Juvenile Library, Paul explains how twenty-first...
Days of Healing, Days of Joy
Daily Meditations for Adult Children
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
Children of alcoholic or addicted parents may be stripped of hope, courage, and self-esteem. The dysfunctional family is fueled by shame and chaos, stunting children’s relationships and self-acceptance. Adult children of alcoholics and addicts need encouragement to overcome these childhood deprivations....
by Emer O'Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2005
WINNER OF THE 2007 CHLA BOOK AWARD!
Children's literature has transcended linguistic and cultural borders since books and magazines for young readers were first produced, with popular books translated throughout the world.
Emer O'Sullivan traces the history of comparative children's...
Freud in Oz
At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children’s Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Children’s literature has spent decades on the psychiatrist’s couch, submitting to psychoanalysis by scores of scholars and popular writers alike. Freud in Oz turns the tables, suggesting that psychoanalysts owe a significant and largely unacknowledged debt to books ostensibly written for children....
Childhood and Pethood in Literature and Culture
New Perspectives in Childhood Studies and Animal Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Bringing together new perspectives in childhood studies and animal studies, this bookis the first collection to critically address the manifold alignments and frequent co-constitutions of children and pets in our families, our cultures, and our societies. The cultural politics of power shaping relationships...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Demonstrating the aesthetic, cultural, political and intellectual diversity of children’s literature across the globe, The Routledge Companion to International Children’s Literature is the first volume of its kind to focus on the undervisited regions of the world. With particular focus on Asia,...
by Ann Alston
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
From the trials of families experiencing divorce, as in Anne Fine’s Madame Doubtfire, to the childcare problems highlighted in Jacqueline Wilson’s Tracy Beaker, it might seem that the traditional family and the ideals that accompany it have long vanished. However, in The Family in English Children’s...
Fundamental Concepts of Children's Literature Research
Literary and Sociological Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
In this book, Ewers provides students and professors with a new system of categorization for a differentiated description of children’s literature. In the early 1970s, Swedish children’s literature scholar Göte Kingberg worked to establish a system of scientific terminology for international...
Children's Literature Studies
A Research Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Children's literature is a rapidly expanding field of research which presents students and researchers with a number of practical and intellectual challenges. This research handbook is the first devoted to the specialist skills and complexities of studying children's literature at university level....
The Jane Addams Children's Book Award
Honoring Children's Literature for Peace and Social Justice since 1953
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Jane Addams (1860–1935) was an inspired activist who struck at the roots of social injustice through persistent and thoughtful action, advocating for reforms in sanitation, housing and work conditions, and child labor. In 1915 Addams founded the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Because all wars in the twenty-first century are potentially global wars, the centenary of the first global war is the occasion for reflection. This volume offers an unprecedented account of the lives, stories, letters, games, schools, institutions (such as the Boy Scouts and YMCA), and toys of children...
The Nation in Children's Literature
Nations of Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
This book explores the meaning of nation or nationalism in children’s literature and how it constructs and represents different national experiences. The contributors discuss diverse aspects of children’s literature and film from interdisciplinary and multicultural approaches, ranging from the...
The Gothic in Children's Literature
Haunting the Borders
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
From creepy picture books to Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket*,* the Spiderwick Chronicles, and countless vampire series for young adult readers, fear has become a dominant mode of entertainment for young readers. The last two decades have seen an enormous growth in the critical study of two very different...