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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Bringing together children’s literature scholars from China and the United States, this collection provides an introduction to the scope and goals of a field characterized by active but also distinctive scholarship in two countries with very different rhetorical traditions. The volume’s five sections...
Learning from the Left
Children's Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005
At the height of the Cold War, dozens of radical and progressive writers, illustrators, editors, librarians, booksellers, and teachers cooperated to create and disseminate children's books that challenged the status quo. Learning from the Left provides the first historic overview of their work. Spanning...
Children's Literature and British Identity
Imagining a People and a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
For more than 250 years, English children’s literature has transmitted values to the next generation. The stories convey to children what they should identify with and aspire to, even as notions of “goodness” change over time. Through reading, children absorb an ethos of Englishness that grounds...
New Directions in Children's Gothic
Debatable Lands
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Children’s literature today is dominated by the gothic mode, and it is in children’s gothic fictions that we find the implications of cultural change most radically questioned and explored. This collection of essays looks at what is happening in the children’s Gothic now when traditional monsters...
by Jan Susina
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
In this volume, Jan Susina examines the importance of Lewis Carroll and his popular Alice books to the field of children’s literature. From a study of Carroll’s juvenilia to contemporary multimedia adaptations of Wonderland, Susina shows how the Alice books fit into the tradition of literary fairy...
by Daniel Hahn
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
The last thirty years have witnessed one of the most fertile periods in the history of children's books: the flowering of imaginative illustration and writing, the Harry Potter phenomenon, the rise of young adult and crossover fiction, and books that tackle extraordinarily difficult subjects. The...
Art Workshop for Children
How to Foster Original Thinking with more than 25 Process Art Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Art Workshop for Children is not just another book of straightforward art projects. The book's unique child-led approach provides a framework for cultivating creative thinking and encourages the wonder that comes when children are allowed to freely explore the creative process and their materials.
As...
The Voice of Nature in Ted Hughes’s Writing for Children
Correcting Culture's Error
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Despite the fame Ted Hughes’s poetry has achieved, there has been surprisingly little critical writing on his children’s literature.
This book identifies the importance of Hughes’s children’s writing from an ecocritical perspective and argues that the healing function that Hughes ascribes...
by Anita Silvey
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Part fun- and information-filled almanac, part good book guide, the Children's Book-a-Day Almanac is a new way to discover a great children's book--every day of the year!
This fresh, inventive reference book is a dynamic way to showcase the gems, both new and old, of children's literature....
Written for Children
An Outline of English-Language Children's Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1996
This revised and updated edition provides children's and young adult librarians, teachers, literature classes, and library school classes with an authoritative history and analysis of the best British and American children's literature through 1994, with a new 2003 postscript including such recent...
Making Americans
Children's Literature from 1930 to 1960
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
American children need books that draw on their own history and circumstances, not just the classic European fairy tales. They need books that enlist them in the great democratic experiment that is the United States. These were the beliefs of many of the authors, illustrators, editors, librarians,...
Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden
A Children's Classic at 100
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Frances Hodgson Burnett gained famed not only as an author of social fictions and romances but also for writing the immensely popular children's novel Little Lord Fauntleroy. She seemed an unlikely candidate to pen a quiet, realistic, and unsentimental paean to disagreeable children and the natural...
Aesthetic Approaches to Children's Literature
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2005
As undergraduate and graduate courses in children's literature become more established and numerous, there is an intense need for a textbook that offers aesthetic rather than educational approaches to children's literature. This work fills that void by providing students of children's literature with...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
The Routledge Companion to Children’s Literature is a vibrant and authoritative exploration of children’s literature in all its manifestations. It features a series of essays written by expert contributors who provide an illuminating examination of why children’s literature is the way it is....