Children's Literature 22

The astonishing success of J.K. Rowling and other contemporary children's authors has demonstrated how passionately children can commit to the books they love. But this kind of devotion is not new. ……続きを見る

During the rise of consumer culture in the nineteenth century, children and childhood were called on to fulfill a range of important roles. In addition to being consumers themselves, the young funct……続きを見る

Bia sem pressa é um livro para quem precisa parar.É a história de uma mulher que tem um relógio de despertar impaciências e de uma menina que aponta algodões doces para o céu, só para ver se os azui……続きを見る

"The Harry Potter series may be named after the Boy Who Lived, but if you want to know the story, keep your eyes fixed on Severus Snape. This hook-nosed, greasy-haired, grumpy character is one of J.……続きを見る

This book is about forms of media that have reflected or increased consciousness of - a sense of place or a regional identity. From landscape painting in the Romantic era to newspaper coverage of de……続きを見る

Écrit en 1887 par Guy de Maupassant, LE HORLA-nouvelle (2ème version) s?inscrit dans le cadre de la nouvelle catégorie du fantastique émergeant à l?époque de l?écrivain : c?est le « fantastique inté……続きを見る

The Rhetorical Power of Children's Literature is an edited volume with contributions from established and new scholars of rhetoric offering case studies that analyze a full array of genres in childr……続きを見る

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of character focalization in ten contemporary realistic children’s novels. The author argues that character focalization, defined as the location of fiction……続きを見る

Cet ouvrage fournit une analyse approfondie de Vendredi ou la Vie sauvage de Michel Tournier avec toutes les clés pour analyse l'œuvre. Suite au naufrage du navire qui devait l'amener au Nouveau Mon……続きを見る

Racially mixed children make up the fastest growing youth demographic in the U.S., and teachers of diverse populations need to be mindful in selecting literature that their students can identify wit……続きを見る

J.K. Rowling has drawn deeply from classical sources to inform and color her Harry Potter novels, with allusions ranging from the obvious to the obscure. "Fluffy," the vicious three-headed dog in Ha……続きを見る

In her reappraisal of canonical works such as Black Beauty, Beautiful Joe, Wind in the Willows, and Peter Rabbit, Tess Cosslett traces how nineteenth-century debates about the human and animal inter……続きを見る

'No words can express the secret agony of my soul'. Dickens's tantalising hint alluding to his time at Warren's Blacking Factory remains a gnomic statement until Forster's biography after Dickens's ……続きを見る

Author of the enduringly popular Alice books, mathematician, Anglican cleric, and pioneer photographer, Lewis Carroll maintained a lifelong enthusiasm for the theatre. Lewis Carroll and the Victoria……続きを見る

Researchers have neglected the cultural history of education and as a result women's educational works have been disparaged as narrowly didactic and redundant to the history of ideas. Mary Hilton's ……続きを見る

This book examines how children’s and young adult literature addresses and interrogates the legacies of American school desegregation. Such literature narrates not only the famous battles to impleme……続きを見る

Between the ages of six and ten I read a lot of YA and middle grade books, and a lot of book seriesーbut as far as I was concerned, A Series of Unfortunate Events and Harry Potter were the only seri……続きを見る

Runner-up of the Katherine Briggs Folklore Award 2017 Winner of the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth & Fantasy Studies 2019 This book examines the creative uses of “Celtic” myth in contemporary……続きを見る

O livro Os Medos da Bel conta a história de uma criança de mente inquieta que quer encontrar explicações para tudo. A narrativa traz à tona o imaginário infantil e suas várias nuances. Bel, a protag……続きを見る

Leonardo. Esse era o nome dele.Ninguém sabia que eu tinha um namorado. Ele morava no Rio de Janeiro e, eu, em São Paulo. Leonardo era moreninho, tinha a pele castanha e brilhosa como madeira pintada……続きを見る

Quantos sonhos cabem num homem?Por que um homem faz da rua a sua casa, o seu casulo e atravessa o olhar de um menino?Os meninos possuem olhos de ver e o homem que mora na calçada, invisível para tan……続きを見る

The connection between childhood and poetry runs deep. And yet, poetry written for children has been neglected by criticism and resists prevailing theories of children's literature. Drawing on Walte……続きを見る

Children’s literature today is dominated by the gothic mode, and it is in children’s gothic fictions that we find the implications of cultural change most radically questioned and explored. This col……続きを見る

Children in Culture, Revisited follows on from the first volume, Children in Culture , and is composed of a range of chapters, newly written for this collection, which offer further fully inter- and……続きを見る

Reading the Art in Caldecott Award Books is a practical and easy-to-use reference handbook explaining what makes the art in Caldecott Medal and Honor books distinguished. It is a useful manual for l……続きを見る

This book is about the implications of novels for young readers that tell their stories by alternating between different narrative lines focused on different characters. It asks: if you make sense o……続きを見る

‘I don’t want to go to the nursery! You’re not my friend!’ These sentences sound familiar to every family. As a mother I’ve also been looking for a panacea for anxiety, hissy, jealousy. I’ve tried t……続きを見る

This book explores the ethical dimensions surrounding the development of education for sustainable development within schools, and examines these issues through the lens of ethical literacy. The boo……続きを見る

Until recently, scholars believed that African American children’s literature did not exist before 1900. Now, Who Writes for Black Children? opens the door to a rich archive of largely overlooked li……続きを見る

This anthology brings together for the first time a collection of autobiographical accounts of their childhood by a range of prominent nineteenth-century literary women. These are strongly individua……続きを見る