Children category: 1253 books
Enterprising Youth
Social Values and Acculturation in Nineteenth-Century American Children’s Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2008
"Recommended" by Choice
Enterprising Youth examines the agenda behind the shaping of nineteenth-century children’s perceptions and world views and the transmission of civic duties and social values to children by adults. The essays in this book reveal the contradictions involved...
Children's Literature Comes of Age
Toward a New Aesthetic
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Originally published in 1996. A detailed analysis of the art of children's literature covering world literature for children, children's literature as a canonical art form, the history of children's literature from a semiotic perspective, and epic, polyphony, chronotope, intertextuality, and metafiction in children's literature.
Children's Literature, Domestication, and Social Foundation
Narratives of Civilization and Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
This study of children's literature as knowledge, culture, and social foundation bridges the gap between science and literature and examines the interconnectedness of fiction and reality as a two-way road. The book investigates how the civilized narrative orders experience by means of segregation,...
Modern Children's Literature
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
An established introductory textbook that provides students with a guide to developments in children's literature over time and across genres. This stimulating collection of critical essays written by a team of subject experts explores key British, American and Australian works, from picture books...
Children's Literature Collections
Approaches to Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
This book provides scholars, both national and international, with a basis for advanced research in children’s literature in collections. Examining books for children published across five centuries, gathered from the collections in Dublin, this unique volume advances causes in collecting, librarianship,...
by Sara Cone Bryant
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Within this book, beloved children's author Sara Cone Bryant offers advice on how to convert fidgety listeners into enthralled ones in a few simple, easy-to-follow lessons. Covering such subjects as selecting, adapting, and voicing stories, this concise guide will teach you how to grab and hold children's...
by Barbara Seuling
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
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* Develop story ideas that work
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* Write for different age groups
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The Big Smallness
Niche Marketing, the American Culture Wars, and the New Children’s Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
This book is the first full-length critical study to explore the rapidly growing cadre of amateur-authored, independently-published, and niche-market picture books that have been released during the opening decades of the twenty-first century. Emerging from a powerful combination of the ease and affordability...
by Jessica Straley
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Evolutionary theory sparked numerous speculations about human development, and one of the most ardently embraced was the idea that children are animals recapitulating the ascent of the species. After Darwin's Origin of Species, scientific, pedagogical, and literary works featuring beastly babes and...
Interactive Books
Playful Media before Pop-Ups
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Movable books are an innovative area of children’s publishing. Commonly equated with spectacular pop-ups, movable books have a little-known history as interactive, narrative media.Since they are hybrid artifacts consisting of words, images and movable components, they cross the borders between story,...
Brown Gold
Milestones of African American Children's Picture Books, 1845-2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Brown Gold is a compelling history and analysis of African-American children's picturebooks from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. At the turn of the nineteenth century, good children's books about black life were hard to find — if, indeed, young black readers and their parents could even...
Charles Dickens and the Victorian Child
Romanticizing and Socializing the Imperfect Child
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
This book explores the ideas of children and childhood, and the construct of the ‘ideal’ Victorian child, that developed rapidly over the Victorian era along with literacy and reading material for the emerging mass reading public. Children’s Literature was one of the developing areas for publishers...
From Mythic to Linear
Time in Children's Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1991
Now available in paperback! In this radically new approach to text typology, Maria Nikolajeva examines the depiction of time in literature for children. Nikolajeva identifies a continuum of texts ranging from those that depict non-linear time, typical of archaic, or mythical, thought, to those that...
Perils of Protection
Shipwrecks, Orphans, and Children's Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Unrecognized in the United States and resisted in many wealthy, industrialized nations, children’s rights to participation and self-determination are easily disregarded in the name of protection. In literature, the needs of children are often obscured by protectionist narratives, which redirect...