 | Who Really Saved Laura Ingalls: Soldat du Chene or a Soldat du Chien?
Publication Date: March 2001Was the frontier family of Charles Ingalls saved by a "tree" or a "dog?"Is it possible that children's author Laura Ingalls Wilder misnamed one of her most memorable Little House on the Prairie characters?She described the noble, Osage Indian chief who persuaded his people to avoid a confrontation with settlers on Indian land in 1871.The early, imprecise blending of cultures and languages on the Kansas prairie combined to create a linguistic misnomer.This book offers dramatic supporting material about the role and significance of protective "dog soldiers" to the P...
 |  | Shared Territory: Understanding Children's Writing as Works
Publication Date: November 14, 1991| ISBN-10: 0195061896 | ISBN-13: 978-0195061895This book brings together Patricia F. Carini's concept of the developing child as a "maker of works" and M.M. Bakhtin's theory of language as "hero" to re-examine how we have defined and researched early written language development. Through a collection of five essays and a documentary account of one young writer, Himley explores fundamental questions about development, language use and learning, and phenomenological reading or description as a possible interpretive methodology in education and research. S...
|  | Voices of the American Revolution: Stories of Men, Women, and Children Who Forged Our Nation
Publication Date: November 15, 2000Riveting accounts of real people tell the story of the American Revolution from diverse characters and viewpoints-from men, women, children, Patriots, Tories, pacifists, African-American slaves, Native Americans, Hessian mercenaries, and more. All major political, social, economic, and military viewpoints are represented. Political debates, military battles and maneuvering, the struggles of civilians, the role of children, and the fates of Tories and Continental soldiers at the end of the war are just some of the themes covered. With each story, Haven inclu...
|  | Scholarly Studies in Harry Potter: Applying Academic Methods to a Popular Text (Studies in British Literature)
Publication Date: December 5, 2005| ISBN-10: 0773460101 | ISBN-13: 978-0773460102This book is intended primarily for an academic audience, especially scholars - students and teachers - doing research and publication in categories, such as myth and legend, children's literature, and the "Harry Potter" series in particular. Additionally, it is meant for college and university teachers. However, the essays do not contain jargon that would put off an avid "lay" "Harry Potter" fan. Overall, this collection is an excellent addition to the growing analytical scholarship on the "Harry Potter" se...
|  | The Adventures of Pinocchio (World's Classics)
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|  | Art of Art for Children's Books
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|  | Sharon M. Draper: Embracing Literacy (Scarecrow Studies in Young Adult Literature)
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|  | Signs of Childness in Children's Books
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|  | 55 Stories 4 Kids: Middle Eastern Tales (Arabic Edition)
Publication Date: October 15, 2008Every Moment of Life is a MiracleGraduated from Michigan State University with two Ph.D degrees, Dr. HasanYahya is a highly educated person. Trained as a social scientist, in sociology, psychologist, and educational philosophy. He lived and worked on both Arab and American lands, visited too many countries. Generally he was working in Educational institutions involved in the development ofhumanbrains socially and psychologically.He experienced too many types of work in his life. This book includes three Sections: Poetry, Tales, and Politics. He is the author...
|  | Women of the Bible
Publication Date: October 30, 2006Women of the Bible contains sixteen stories of women in the Bible retold for young children. Including both well-known characters like Eve and Sarah and lesser known ones like Dorcas and the Widow of Zarephath, this book will inspire both readers and listeners with its reminders of God's faithfulness, compassion, and provision.Parents, grandparents, and preschool teachers will enjoy reading the stories to the children in their care, while Sunday school teachers will appreciate it as a Bible study resource. ...
|  | Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre: Fiction for Children and Adults (Children's Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: June 3, 2008| ISBN-10: 0415995272 | ISBN-13: 978-0415995276| Edition: 1 This book critically examines Le Guin's fiction for all ages, and it will be of great interest to her many admirers and to all students and scholars of children's literature. ...
|  | A Second Look: Native Americans In Children's Books
Publication Date: October 19, 2007Four-hundred-twenty-five books are reviewed in this superb collection. A Second Look, Native Americans in Children's Books gives a thorough examination of the books as a guide for parents, teachers, librarians, and administrators interested in books for children. Anyone involved in selecting books will find this guide useful in working through the maze of available materials. Andie Peterson, one of the few women to be awarded an Eagle Feather, has provided a meaningful criteria to help in judging books. She outlines ways for objectively studying books to dra...
|  | Robert Rogers: Rogers' Rangers and the French and Indian War (The Library of American Lives and Times Series)
Publication Date: November 20, 2011| Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Allyn Bacon S Children S Literature D
Publication Date: July 28, 2005Allyn & Bacon's Children's Literature Database is the most complete children's literature database available on the market today.It includes genre listings, descriptions, guided reading, and grade level assignments for 7,000 books. Unlike other databases that simply have a sampling of books available with the reading levels attached to them, Allyn & Bacon's Children's Literature Database is much more comprehensive, both in its scope and in the genres included. It is an indispensable tool for both librarians and prospective classroom teachers. ...
|  | The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie (Center Point Platinum Nonfiction)
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|  | Time Travel and Harry Potter: Time-Turning in the Prisoner of Azkaban and its Place in Time-Travel Fiction
Publication Date: September 18, 2009All the twists and turns of time travel in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azakaban are fun, but understanding them is also hard.For example, how does Harry get past the Dementor attack so that he can time travel latter and save himself from the Dementor attack?Isn't that impossible?Richard Jones explains how this might in fact be possible and examines more generally how time travel works in the book, along with its problems.For example, did Harry and Hermione change history?Did Harry and Hermione have free will for what they did or were t...
|  | Toni Buzzeo and YOU (The Author and YOU)
Publication Date: October 30, 2005| ISBN-10: 1591582113 | ISBN-13: 978-1591582113Playing on the phrase, The author and you, a commonly taught reading comprehension strategy that teaches the learner how to look at the words of an author and make inferences about what is being said, this series assists teachers and teacher-librarians in understanding the underlying purposes of the author as they prepare learning activities for their students. Through family photos, reminiscences, anecdotes and stories, Toni Buzzeo relates her lifelong preparation to become a writer. The book features wonde...
|  | Alma Flor Ada and YOU Volume II (The Author and YOU) (v. 2)
Publication Date: January 30, 2008| ISBN-10: 1591582288 | ISBN-13: 978-1591582281| Edition: 2 Following up on the first volume featuring prolific author Alma Flor Ada, this second volume offers further insight into her life and writing. Here, the author discusses her work as a poet, dramatist, writer of memoir, reteller of folktales and legends for children, and translator. She discusses her collaborative work and the processes involved in working with illustrators, songwriters, and co-author Isabel Campoy. Her work as a translator and promoter of Spanish and English books for all childr...
|  | Tom Turkey and Erik Eagle: Or How the Eagle Became the American Symbol
Publication Date: November 27, 2008| Grade Level: P and upWhen the Founding Fathers met in Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, to pick a national symbol for the new country, they just could not agree. Elder statesman Ben Franklin preferred the turkey, but George Washington championed the mighty eagle. So they asked BenÕs new friend, Drew Duck, to help them decide. Drew flew back to his home in Wilderbrush Forest and asked his animal friends to help him. Several candidates said theyÕd be perfect, but finally, the choice came down to Tom Turkey or Erik Eagle. Most favored kin...
|  | The Art of Children's Picture Books: A Selective Reference Guide, Second Edition (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Publication Date: January 1, 1995| ISBN-10: 0815309376 | ISBN-13: 978-0815309376| Edition: 2nd Sections list books, articles, and audio-visual resources on the history of children's picture books, how a picture book is made, criticism, artists' anthologies, and collections.Each section contains an introduction discussing subjects such as international trends in children's book publishing an ...
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