Maurice Gee's fiction for younger readers blends exciting stories with serious issues. Told through a range of genres, from fantasy to realism, adventure to science fiction, mysteries, psychological……続きを見る
著者:Sarah Donovan
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年08月12日
At the heart of this inquiry into the ethical implications of education reform on reading practices in middle and secondary classrooms, the central question is what is lost, hidden, or marginalized ……続きを見る
Reading the World’s Stories is volume 5 in the Bridges to Understanding series of annotated international youth literature bibliographies sponsored by the United States Board on Books for Young Peop……続きを見る
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 fi……続きを見る
著者:Pat R. Scales
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2016年09月08日
A Day No Pigs Would Die, Speak, Thirteen Reasons Why These are some of the most beloved, and most challenged, books. Leaving controversial titles such as these out of your collection or limiting the……続きを見る
Examining nineteenth-century British hymns for children, Alisa Clapp-Itnyre argues that the unique qualities of children's hymnody created a space for children's empowerment. Unlike other literature……続きを見る
著者:Ruth Y. Jenkins
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2016年09月22日
This book reveals how the period’s transforming identities affected by social, economic, religious, and national energies offers rich opportunities in which to analyze the relationship between ident……続きを見る
This book is a study of the evolving relationships between literature, cyberspace, and young adults in the twenty-first century. Megan L. Musgrave explores the ways that young adult fiction is becom……続きを見る
Unlock the more straightforward side of Matilda with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Matilda by Roald Dahl, the story of a young girl ……続きを見る
著者:Judith Barger
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年09月13日
Nineteenth-century British periodicals for girls and women offer a wealth of material to understand how girls and women fit into their social and cultural worlds, of which music making was an import……続きを見る
著者:Goh Pei Ki
出版社: Asiapac Books Pte Ltd
発売日: 2016年10月22日
Popular Chinese Proverbs collects several old favourites and some of the most widely used expressions. Using vibrant illustrations and clear explanations of the metaphors and history behind them, th……続きを見る
This book contains more than 70 Chinese Fables that have been handed down from ancient times, told with lively comic illustrations by Chinese cartoonist Tian Hengyu who is renowned for his expressiv……続きを見る
Stories of Integrity features Chinese historical figures upheld as models of integrity because of their high moral standards. The historical era may be different, but the temptations are the same: t……続きを見る
著者:Suriyan Panlay
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2016年10月25日
Applying critical race theory to contemporary African American children’s and young adult literature, this book explores one key racial issue that has been overlooked both in race studies and litera……続きを見る
Throughout history, the verse novel has persisted as a modest but noteworthy literary subgenre, from classic works like Eugene Onegin to contemporary volumes by Vikram Seth, Dorothy Porter, and Dere……続きを見る
Children's book awards have mushroomed since the early twentieth-century and especially since the 1960s, when literary prizing became a favored strategy for both commercial promotion and canon-makin……続きを見る
Misfits are often confused with outcasts. Yet misfits rather find themselves in-between that which fits and that which does not. This volume is interested in this slipperiness of misfits and explore……続きを見る
This book explores representations of child autonomy and self-governance in children’s literature.The idea of child rule and child realms is central to children’s literature, and childhood is freque……続きを見る
Writing Youth: Young Adult Fiction as Literacy Sponsorship shows how many young adult novels model for young people ways to manage the various media tools that surround them. Jonathan Alexander exam……続きを見る
This book visits contemporary British children’s and young adult (YA) fiction alongside cosmopolitanism, exploring the notion of the nation within the context of globalization, transnationalism and ……続きを見る
What, exactly, does one mean when idealizing tolerance as a solution to cultural conflict? This book examines a wide range of young adult texts, both fiction and memoir, representing the experiences……続きを見る
著者:Ian Gordon
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2016年11月30日
This book looks at the humor that artists and editors believed would have appeal in four different countries. Ian Gordon explains how similar humor played out in comic strips across different cultur……続きを見る
This volume focuses on the (de)canonization processes in children’s literature, considering the construction and cultural-historical changes of canons in different children’s literatures. Chapters b……続きを見る
Eight Children in Narnia is a detailed study of C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, exploring the story’s influences, themes, symbols, ironies-and the reasons for its enormous popular success. Lobdel……続きを見る
著者:Jenny Holt
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年12月05日
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, British society gradually began to see 'adolescence' as a distinct social entity worthy of concentrated study and debate. Jenny Holt argues that ……続きを見る
著者:Peter Havholm
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年12月05日
There has been a resurgence of interest in Kipling among critics who struggle to reconcile the multiple pleasures offered by his fiction with the controversial political ideas that inform it. Peter ……続きを見る
Taking up the understudied relationship between the cultural history of childhood and media studies, this volume traces twentieth-century migrations of the child-savage analogy from colonial into po……続きを見る
Posing a challenge to more traditional approaches to the history of education, this interdisciplinary collection examines the complex web of beliefs and methods by which culture was transmitted to y……続きを見る
著者:Anja Müller
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年12月05日
This innovative collection of essays re-examines conventional ideas of the history of childhood, exploring the child's increasing prominence in eighteenth-century discourse and the establishment of ……続きを見る
著者:Anja Müller
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年12月05日
Shedding light on an important and neglected topic in childhood studies, Anja Müller interrogates how different concepts of childhood proliferated and were construed in several important eighteenth……続きを見る