 | Defining Print Culture for Youth: The Cultural Work of Children's Literature (Beta Phi Mu Monograph Series) Publication Date: May 30, 2003| ISBN-10: 0313321779 | ISBN-13: 978-0313321771Sponsored by the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, this volume features a selection of ten papers compiled from the Center's second national conference, accompanied by a detailed introduction. Presented by scholars from diverse backgrounds, the essays center on the emerging, interdisciplinary field of print culture. They examine children's literature and related print materials from a cultural perspective and discuss the influence of ideological, political, and material factors on the re...
 |  | Fundamental Concepts of Children's Literature Research: Literary and Sociological Approaches (Children's Literature and Culture) Publication Date: April 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 0415800196 | ISBN-13: 978-0415800198| Edition: 1 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 use, but these terms are now somewhat antiquated. This book offers a much-needed update, systematically analyzing the field and articulating its key definitions, terms, and concepts. Internat...
 |  | English Fairytales Publication Date: June 1984| ISBN-10: 0898352592 | ISBN-13: 978-0898352597Rackham's classic illustrations ...
 |  | Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature Publication Date: September 26, 2005| ISBN-10: 0826417787 | ISBN-13: 978-0826417787With 1,200 biographical-critical entries and nearly 100 topical articles all written by experts in the field, The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature is the most complete and up-to-date single-volume reference source on the subject. The work covers 150 years of children's literature in many countries: The United States, Great Britain, Canada, continental Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, and Asia. Biographical-critical entries include authors as well as illustrators. A distinguished board...
 |  | The Gargantuan Guide to Harry Potter Publication Date: March 22, 2011The Gargantuan Guide to Harry Potter is a study guide designed to accompany the reading of the Harry Potter series in a course or classroom setting (although individual readers will also find it a useful and fascinating reference). Readers who want to learn more than is immediately apparent in the books will find critical commentary to help them understand possible underlying connections to the greater storyline. They will also find detailed analysis of plot and action, thought-provoking study questions, and illuminating insights into people, places, events--a...
 |  | Into the Closet: Cross-Dressing and the Gendered Body in Children's Literature and Film (Children's Literature and Culture) Publication Date: October 2, 2007| ISBN-10: 0415980089 | ISBN-13: 978-0415980081Into the Closet examines the representation of cross-dressing in a wide variety of children’s fiction, ranging from picture books and junior fiction to teen films and novels for young adults. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the different types of cross-dressing found in children’s narratives, raising a number of significant issues relating to the ideological construction of masculinity and femininity in books for younger readers.Many literary and cultural critics have studied the cultura...
 |  | Green and Pleasant Land: English Culture and the Romantic Countryside (Groningen Studies in Cultural Change) Publication Date: December 31, 2004| ISBN-10: 9042914386 | ISBN-13: 978-9042914384The present volume, number VIII in the series "Groningen Studies in Cultural Change", offers a selection of papers presented at a workshop organised by Amanda Gilroy and Wil Verhoeven entitled Green and Pleasant Land: English Culture and the Romantic Countryside. The contributions in this volume illuminate the ideological investments of particular ways of experiencing the English countryside of the Romantic era. While their analyses of cultural change are historically specific, they explore, too, the confli...
 |  | The Heirs of Tom Brown: The English School Story Publication Date: September 25, 2009In their heyday, the English public schools inspired an astonishing effusion of novels and stories about school life, of which Tom Brown's Schooldays is perhaps still the best known, and was certainly the most influential. Continually counterpointing school life as it really was with its fictional image, Isabel Quigly discusses her chosen stories in relation to those themes which recur in the genre: the cult of games, the love story, the boarding school as a training ground for the Empire, schoolboy heroics and an extraordinary preoccupation with death. He...
 |  | Dictionary of American Children's Fiction, 1960-1984: Recent Books of Recognized Merit Publication Date: November 18, 1986With its companion volume, this book effectively provides descriptions and evaluations of award-winning American fiction for children over the last 125 years. The compilers provide clear, insightful, and critical evaluations. Despite its title, the bibliography lists fiction for both children and young adults. . . . These two volumes, likely to become reference mainstays, are recommended for academic libraries that support children's and young adult literature or teacher education, and for public libraries and media centers. ChoiceThis volume is a fine addi...
 |  | Handbuch zu den ""Kinder- und Hausm Publication Date: April 15, 2008This handbook is the first work to document all the fairy tales which appeared in the Grimm Brothers' lifetime and locates them in their historico-cultural context. There is a detailed commentary on each tale, which draws on the most important international research literature; particular attention is paid both to thematic links within the collection and to the Tales' continued survival and revitali-sation in the most varied literary genres and audio-visual media. The Guide contains comprehensive indexes of names, works and subjects, together with indexes of t...
 |  | How to Tell the Difference: A Checklist for Evaluating Native American Children's Books ...
 |  | Frankie the Bunny Woodland Warning" Publication Date: February 27, 2012A series of short stories "Frankie the Bunny" is a wholesome way to instill in children an idea of building a better world. The title character, Frankie, has his life turned upside down the moment he became wheelchair-bound. Despite the difficulties Frankie now faced, he discovered that making new friends makes everybody feel wanted, loved and worthwhile to help others. Rising rains gave Frankie a fright - but he has to warn the woods! Can he do it in time? How to convince everyone to play it safe? ...
 |  | E. B. White: The Essayist as First-Class Writer Release Date: March 13, 2012This is the first book-length critical study of E. B. White, the American essayist and author of the beloved Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, and The Trumpet of the Swan. Complementing On the Familiar Essay, this book is intended for anyone interested in White, the essay, or the expansion of the canon of American literature. G. Douglas Atkins focuses on White and 'the writing life', offering fresh, detailed readings of the major essays and revealing White's distinctiveness as an essayist due to his capacity for story-telling and his use of literary devices. ...
 |  | Home Words: Discourses of Children’s Literature in Canada (Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada) Release Date: March 18, 2008| ISBN-10: 1554580161 | ISBN-13: 978-1554580163 The essays in Home Words explore the complexity of the idea of home through various theoretical lenses and groupings of texts. One focus of this collection is the relation between the discourses of nation, which often represent the nation as home, and the discourses of home in children’s literature, which variously picture home as a dwelling, family, town or region, psychological comfort, and a place to start from and return to. These essays consider the myriad ways in which discourses of home underwrite bo...
 |  | A Critical History of French Children's Literature: Volume One: 1600-1830 (Children's Literature and Culture) (v. 1) Publication Date: July 20, 2007| ISBN-10: 0415973260 | ISBN-13: 978-0415973267| Edition: 1 These books are the first full-length, comprehensive study written in English of French children’s literature. They provide both an overview of developments from the seventeenth century to the present day and detailed discussion of texts that are representative, innovative, or influential best-sellers in their own time and beyond. French children’s literature is little known in the English-speaking world and, apart from a small number of writers and texts, has been relatively neglecte...
 |  | Developing Learning Skills through Children's Literature: An Idea Book for K-5 Classrooms and Libraries, Volume 2 Publication Date: April 29, 1994| ISBN-10: 0897747461 | ISBN-13: 978-0897747462This is not a revision but an entirely updated volume of selected high-quality literature published from 1986 to 1993. Volume 2 shows how to create a literature-based program--either thematic or across the curriculum--based on quality contemporary and classic literature. The authors explain how to select the most appropriate books and how to use them in the classroom to encourage learning through literature. Each volume contains six chapters arranged by grade level and divided into units covering books on a pa...
 |  | Elsewhere: Selected Essays from the '20th Century Fantasy Literature: From Beatrix to Harry' International Literary Conference Publication Date: May 20, 2003| ISBN-10: 0761825886 | ISBN-13: 978-0761825883This compilation explores significant elements of fantasy inherent within classic and current literature for children and young adults. Selected topics are inventive as well as insightful and include semantics, medieval allusion, fairy tales, gender association, and narrative voice. ...
 |  | Frightening Fiction (Contemporary Classics in Childrens Literature) Publication Date: May 15, 2001| ISBN-10: 0826453104 | ISBN-13: 978-0826453105| Edition: 1 The development of the horror genre in childrenÆs literature has been a startling phenomenon û one that has provoked strong, but mixed, reactions. Frightening Fiction provides a lucid and lively guide to that genre, ranging from analyses of such popular series as Point Horror, Goosebumps, the X Files and the Buffy Stories, to the work of individual authors such as Robert Westall, David Almond, Philip Gross and Lesley Howarth. ...
 |  | Girls and Their Comics: Finding a Female Voice in Comic Book Narrative Publication Date: November 16, 2012| ISBN-10: 0810883759 | ISBN-13: 978-0810883758In America, comics and comic books have often been associated with adolescent male fantasy—muscle-bound superheroes and scantily clad women. Nonetheless, comics have also been read and enjoyed by girls. While there have been many strong representations of women throughout their history, the comics of today have evolved and matured, becoming a potent medium in which to explore the female experience, particularly that of girlhood and adolescence. In Girls and Their Comics: Finding a Female Voice in Comi...
 |  | Humor in Contemporary Junior Literature (Children's Literature and Culture) Publication Date: December 2, 2010| ISBN-10: 0415882672 | ISBN-13: 978-0415882675| Edition: 1 In this new book, Julie Cross examines the intricacies of textual humor in contemporary junior literature, using the tools of literary criticism and humor theory. Cross investigates the dialectical paradoxes of humor and debunks the common belief in oppositional binaries of ‘simple’ versus ‘complex’ humor. The varied combinations of so-called high and low forms of humor within junior texts for young readers, who are at such a crucial stage of their reading and social ...
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