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The Role of Translators in Children’s Literature
Invisible Storytellers
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
This book offers a historical analysis of key classical translated works for children, such as writings by Hans Christian Andersen and Grimms’ tales. Translations dominate the earliest history of texts written for children in English, and stories translated from other languages have continued to...
Art Lab for Kids: Express Yourself
52 Creative Adventures to Find Your Voice Through Drawing, Painting, Mixed Media, and Sculpture
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Art Lab for Kids, Express Yourself is a fun collection of art activities that encourage children to create freely, using their own thoughts and experiences as a guide.
One of the most important gifts we can give children is to nurture their creativity and allow them to express themselves...
by Sylvia M. Vardell
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019
The third edition of Children's Literature in Action provides an activity-oriented survey of children's literature for undergraduate and graduate students seeking licensure and degrees that will lead to careers working with children in schools and public libraries. Author Sylvia M. Vardell draws on...
Wild Things
The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
An irresistible, nostalgic, insightful—and “consistently intelligent and funny” (The New York Times Book Review)—ramble through classic children’s literature from Vanity Fair contributing editor (and father of two) Bruce Handy.
The dour New England Primer, thought to be the first...
by Emer O'Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Children's literature comes from a number of different sources-folklore (folk- and fairy tales), books originally for adults and subsequently adapted for children, and material authored specifically for them-and its audience ranges from infants through middle graders to young adults (readers from...
by Karen Sands-O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
This book examines a critical period in British children’s publishing, from the earliest days of dedicated publishing firms for Black British audiences to the beginnings of the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK. Taking a historical approach that includes education acts, Black protest, community...
by Peter Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Children's literature continues to be one of the most rapidly expanding and exciting of interdisciplinary academic studies, of interest to anyone concerned with literature, education, internationalism, childhood or culture in general. The second edition of Peter Hunt's bestselling International Companion...
by Alan Garner, MA, Dr. Janet G. Woititz
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Adult Children of Alcoholics -- a wonderful book that affirms and encourages AcoAs by developing skills for living.
Imagine how good you would feel if
· You could stand up for yourself without losing your temper
· You could make a decision...
The Children's Busy Book
365 Creative Learning Games and Activities to Keep Your 6- to 10-Year-Old Busy
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
365 fun, creative activities to stimulate your child every day of the year. The Children's Busy Book is from the line of all-time #1 selling line of Busy Books.
365 fun, creative activities to stimulate your child every day of the year This book contains 365 activities (one for each day of...
by Walter Crane
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
THE BABYS OWN AESOP is a one of the most popular children's book illustrators of all time: This is beautifully color classic works in affordable, high quality, using the original text by Walter Crane, was an English children's book artist illustrator and writer. This works can delight another generation...
by Christine Wilkie-Stibbs
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This bookbuilds upon and contributes to the growing academic interest in feminism within the field of children's literature studies. Christie Wilkie-Stibbs draws upon the work of Luce Irigaray, Helene Cixous, Julia Kristeva, and Jacques Lacan in her analysis of particular children's literature texts...
Multiracial Identity in Children's Literature
Reading Diversity In the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Racially mixed children make up the fastest growing youth demographic in the U.S., and teachers of diverse populations need to be mindful in selecting literature that their students can identify with. This volume explores how books for elementary school students depict and reflect multiracial experiences...
Gender(ed) Identities
Critical Rereadings of Gender in Children's and Young Adult Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
This volume brings together diverse, cross-disciplinary scholarly voices to examine gender construction in children's and young adult literature. It complements and updates the scholarship in the field by creating a rich, cohesive examination of core questions around gender and sexuality in classic...
by Ann González
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
In this volume González explores how the effects of a traumatic colonial experience are (re)presented to Latin American children today, almost two centuries after the dismantling of colonialism proper. Central to this study is the argument that the historical constraints of colonialism, neocolonialism,...