 | Bologna Annual 2000 Non-Fiction
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 |  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | The Case of Peter Rabbit: Changing Conditions of Literature for Children (Children's Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: April 3, 1999| ISBN-10: 0815332645 | ISBN-13: 978-0815332640| Edition: Subsequent Using examples of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" by Beatrix Potter to explore the impact of new media and technologies on how children learn about stories and reading, this book investigates nearly 100 re-tellings in a variety of media, some authorized by Potter's publisher Frederick Warne, some unauthorized. It looks at the implications of converging developments in children's literature: new media and technologies now readily available to children leading to new conventions and protocols of ...
|  | 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. ...
|  | Childhood in Edwardian Fiction: Worlds Enough and Time
Release Date: January 6, 2009The first book-length look at childhood in Edwardian fiction, this book challenges assumptions that the Edwardian period was simply a continuation of the Victorian or the start of the Modern. Exploring both classics and popular fiction, the authors provide a a compelling picture of the Edwardian fictional cult of childhood. ...
|  | 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? ...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | The Consent of the Governed: The Lockean Legacy in Early American Culture
Publication Date: January 15, 2001What made the United States what it is began long before a shot was fired at a redcoat in Lexington, Massachusetts in 1775.It began quietly in homes and schoolrooms across the colonies in the reading lessons women gave to children.Just as the Protestant revolt originated in a practice of individual reading of the Bible, so the theories of reading developed by John Locke were the means by which a revolutionary attitude toward authority was disseminated throughout the British colonies in North America that would come to form in the United States.Gillian Brown ...
|  | 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. ...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | 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. ...
|  | 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...
|  | Celebrating Children's Choices: 25 Years of Children's Favorite Books
Publication Date: September 2000| ISBN-10: 0872072762 | ISBN-13: 978-0872072763| Edition: 1st This book provides the background and development of theChildren's Choices project, a joint effort of the Children's BookCouncil and International Reading Association, and highlights many ofthe best known and most popular books that have appeared on theChildren's Choices list over the past 25 years. Each book selectionfeatures a picture of the book jacket, an annotation from the Choiceslist, a list of classroom applications, and vignettes from theclassrooms where the authors observed the applica...
|  | 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...
|  | Conceptualizing Cruelty to Children in Nineteenth-Century England (Ashgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present)
Publication Date: June 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 0754664562 | ISBN-13: 978-0754664567Moving nimbly between literary and historical texts, Monica Flegel provides a much-needed interpretive framework for understanding the specific formulation of child cruelty popularized by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) in the late nineteenth century. Flegel considers a wide range of well-known and more obscure texts from the mid-eighteenth century to the early twentieth, including philosophical writings by Locke and Rousseau, poetry by Coleridge, Blake, and Caroline Norton...
|  | English Fairytales
Publication Date: June 1984| ISBN-10: 0898352592 | ISBN-13: 978-0898352597Rackham's classic illustrations ...
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