2nd ed. — Routledge, 2016. — 233 p. — ISBN10: 1138014087. — ISBN13: 978-1138014084. Children Reading Pictures has made a huge impact on teachers, scholars and students all over the world. The original edition of this book described the fascinating range of children's responses to contemporary picturebooks, which proved that they are sophisticated readers of visual texts and are...
Ashgate, 2011. — 233 p. — ISBN: 9781409412441. Taking up the various conceptions of heroism that are conjured in the Harry Potter series, this collection examines the ways fictional heroism in the twenty-first century challenges the idealized forms of a somewhat simplistic masculinity associated with genres like the epic, romance and classic adventure story. The collection’s...
2013. — 20 p. — (English Association Primary Bookmarks Number 5). A personal review and a mini vocabulary usage analysis of the renowned series by Enid Blyton.
The Scarecrow Press, 2003. - 176 p. Teachers, librarians, and students of children's and young adult literature will appreciate the breadth and clarity of this book, as well as the impressive bibliographies of fantasy and of professional reading on it. The authors first set down the definition of and criteria for successful fantasy and then break the genre down into its...
University of Chicago Press, 2018. — 338 p. Talking lions, philosophical bears, very hungry caterpillars, wise spiders, altruistic trees, companionable moles, urbane elephants: this is the magnificent menagerie that delights our children at bedtime. Within the entertaining pages of many children’s books, however, also lie profound teachings about the natural world that can help...
Routledge. London and New York. 2005. 1300 p. Children's literature continues to be one of the most rapidly expanding and exciting inter-disciplinary academic fields-of interest to anyone concerned with literature, education, internationalism, childhood, or culture in general. The second edition of Peter Hunt's acclaimed reference has been thoroughly revised and updated to...
(Not In Front of the Grown-ups) 1990 - 229 p. In sixteen spirited essays, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alison Lurie, who is also one of our wittiest and most astute cultural commentators, explores the world of children's literature-from Lewis Carroll to Dr. Seuss, Mark Twain to Beatrix Potter - and shows that the best-loved children's books tend to challenge rather than...
Macmillan Palgrave, 2009, 9780230227132. Children's Literature: Approaches and Territories provides a social and literary overview of the field of Anglophone children's literature: its history and genres, its current concerns, and its possible future directions.
Macmillan Palgrave, 2009, 9780230227149. Children's Literature: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends provides students with high-quality critical material on a selection of important classic and contemporary children's books. From Louisa May Alcott's Little Women to J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone to Melvin Burgess's Junk, each has been selected...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 161 p. — (Very Short Introductions). — ISBN: 978-0-199560-24-2. Children's literature takes many forms - works adapted for children in antiquity, picture books and pop-ups - and now includes the latest online games and eBooks. This vast and amorphous subject is both intimately related to other areas of literary and cultural investigation but...
Trentham Books, 2009. — 254 p. — ISBN10: 1858564387, 13 978-1858564388. Acts of Reading looks at the history of reading and texts for children from an educational perspective. The texts selected date from the eighteenth century through to the digital age and beyond. They are examined through the eyes of their various audiences-the children, writers, teachers and parents-so as...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 321 p. How can children grow to realize their inherent rights and respect the rights of others? In this book, authors Jonathan Todres and Sarah Higinbotham explore this question through both human rights law and children's literature. Both international and domestic law affirm that children have rights, but how are these norms disseminated so...
Routledge, 2006. — 272 p. The fairy tale may be one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives. But until Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, little attention had been paid to the ways in which the writers and collectors of tales used traditional forms and genres in order to shape children's lives - their behavior, values, and relationship to...
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