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Author : Barbara Stoodt
Publisher : Macmillan Education AU
Release Date : 1996
ISBN 13 : 9780732940126
Pages : 532 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (732 downloads)
Download Children's Literature PDF Format Full Free by Barbara Stoodt and published by Macmillan Education AU. This book was released on 1996 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Seth Lerer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2009-04-01
ISBN 13 : 0226473023
Pages : 396 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (473 downloads)
Download Children's Literature PDF Format Full Free by Seth Lerer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children’s literature. Children’s Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop’s fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from Where the Wild Things Are to Harry Potter. The only single-volume work to capture the rich and diverse history of children’s literature in its full panorama, this extraordinary book reveals why J. R. R. Tolkien, Dr. Seuss, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Beatrix Potter, and many others, despite their divergent styles and subject matter, have all resonated with generations of readers. Children’s Literature is an exhilarating quest across centuries, continents, and genres to discover how, and why, we first fall in love with the written word. “Lerer has accomplished something magical. Unlike the many handbooks to children’s literature that synopsize, evaluate, or otherwise guide adults in the selection of materials for children, this work presents a true critical history of the genre. . . . Scholarly, erudite, and all but exhaustive, it is also entertaining and accessible. Lerer takes his subject seriously without making it dull.”—Library Journal (starred review) “Lerer’s history reminds us of the wealth of literature written during the past 2,600 years. . . . With his vast and multidimensional knowledge of literature, he underscores the vital role it plays in forming a child’s imagination. We are made, he suggests, by the books we read.”—San Francisco Chronicle “There are dazzling chapters on John Locke and Empire, and nonsense, and Darwin, but Lerer’s most interesting chapter focuses on girls’ fiction. . . . A brilliant series of readings.”—Diane Purkiss, Times Literary Supplement
Author : Nancy Lee Cecil
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
Release Date : 1998
ISBN 13 : 1563083132
Pages : 164 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (83 downloads)
Download Families in Children's Literature PDF Format Full Free by Nancy Lee Cecil and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 1998 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a selection of book-based activities designed to help teachers and librarians acquaint middle-school children with the many different ways families of all races and cultures live.
Author : Bernice E. Cullinan
Publisher : A&C Black
Release Date : 2005-01-01
ISBN 13 : 9780826417787
Pages : 930 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (826 downloads)
Download The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature PDF Format Full Free by Bernice E. Cullinan and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides articles covering children's literature from around the world as well as biographical and critical reviews of authors including Avi, C.S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling, and Anno Mitsumasa.
Author : Linda C. Salem
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
Release Date : 2006
ISBN 13 : 1591580897
Pages : 168 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (58 downloads)
Download Children's Literature Studies PDF Format Full Free by Linda C. Salem and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2006 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This supplement to standard children's literature textbooks will be a help to instructors as they engage their students in discussions about selection of materials, censorship, dealing with curricular issues, the need to understand administrative policies, community beliefs, and their responses to these issues. It is designed to help instructors discuss books in ways that inspire collegiality, collaboration, and scholarship in book evaluation and selection. Using actual case studies, resource reviews and/or scenarios of censorship, religion, violence, ethnicity and other issues, the instructor will be able to encourage discussion and reflective thought about real issues faced by teachers and librarians as they select materials for classroom or school library use. This supplement to standard children's literature textbooks will be a help to instructors as they engage their students in discussions about selection of materials, censorship, dealing with curricular issues, the need to understand administrative policies, community beliefs, and their responses to these issues. It is designed to help them discuss books in ways that inspire collegiality, collaboration, and scholarship in book evaluation and selection. Using actual case studies, resource reviews and/or scenarios of censorship, religion, violence, ethnicity and other issues, the instructor will be able to encourage discussion and reflective thought about real issues faced by teachers and librarians as they select materials for classroom or school library use. Guides for possible resources for help in researching situations will be included. This will prove a very valuable resource in teaching children's literature courses in schools of education and library schools, and useful to practicing teachers and librarians as well. Though the book is slanted toward the use of books as classroom materials, it will be a valuable asset to a school library's professional collection and certainly valuable to the training of pre-service teachers and school librarians. Each chapter begins with a bibliographic essay that introduces the topic to the reader. The essay is designed as a starting point for further discussion and research. A list of references for each chapter is provided at the end of the chapter. These references represent sources teachers can use to conduct further research to find multiple perspectives about books.
Author : Peter Hunt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 1999
ISBN 13 : 0415195462
Pages : 199 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (195 downloads)
Download Understanding Children's Literature PDF Format Full Free by Peter Hunt and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an introduction to some of the critical theories useful in the study of children's literature. The 14 chapters examine the context, application and relevance to this area of concepts such as feminism, ideology, psychoanalysis and literacy studies.
Author : Margaret W. Denman-West
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
Release Date : 1998
ISBN 13 : 9781563084485
Pages : 212 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (563 downloads)
Download Children's Literature PDF Format Full Free by Margaret W. Denman-West and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to serve as an access point to children's literature for researchers, librarians, teachers, parents, & young people, this single-volume guide covers reference materials published between 1985 & the present. The major portion of the work is a bibliography of bibliographies. Cited sources include references to recommended children's books (fiction & nonfiction, in print & nonprint formats); read-aloud books; picture books; multicultural books; books relevant to children with special needs & talents; books for reluctant readers; & more. Indexes cover such various literary genres for children as plays, poetry, fantasy, folklore, songs, & biographies. In addition to the bibliographic entries, there are biographies of authors & illustrators & Internet access points (using listservs, the World Wide Web, & other networking programs).
Author : Zohar Shavit
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2009-11-01
ISBN 13 : 0820334812
Pages : 218 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (334 downloads)
Download Poetics of Children's Literature PDF Format Full Free by Zohar Shavit and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its emergence in the seventeenth century as a distinctive cultural system, children's literature has had a culturally inferior status resulting from its existence in a netherworld between the literary system and the educational system. In addition to its official readership—children—it has to be approved of by adults. Writers for children, explains Zohar Shavit, are constrained to respond to these multiple systems of often mutually contradictory demands. Most writers do not try to bypass these constraints, but accept them as a framework for their work. In the most extreme cases an author may ignore one segment of the readership. If the adult reader is ignored, the writer risks rejection, as is the case of popular literature. If the writer utilizes the child as a pseudo addressee in order to appeal to an adult audience, the result can be what Shavit terms an ambivalent work. Shavit analyzes the conventions and the moral aims that have structured children's literature, from the fairy tales collected and reworked by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm—in particular, “Little Red Riding Hood”—through the complex manipulations of Lewis Carroll in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, to the subversion of the genre's canonical requirements in the chapbooks of the eighteenth century, and in the formulaic Nancy Drew books of the twentieth century. Throughout her study Shavit, explores not only how society has shaped children's literature, but also how society has been reflected in the literary works it produces for its children.
Author : Julia Briggs
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2008
ISBN 13 : 9781840142426
Pages : 372 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (84 downloads)
Download Popular Children's Literature in Britain PDF Format Full Free by Julia Briggs and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responding to the astonishing success of J. K. Rowling and other contemporary authors, the editors of this timely volume take up the challenge of assessing the complex interplay of forces that have generated, and sometimes sustained, the popularity of children's books. Ranging from eighteenth-century chapbooks to the stories of Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl, and from science schoolbooks to Harry Potter, these essays show how authorial talent operates within its cultural context to make a children's classic.
Author : Thomas Van der Walt
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date : 2004
ISBN 13 : 9780275981853
Pages : 224 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (275 downloads)
Download Change and Renewal in Children's Literature PDF Format Full Free by Thomas Van der Walt and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2004 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of scholarly essays on the topics of change and renewal in children's literature.
Author : James W. Forgan
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
Release Date : 2003
ISBN 13 : 1563089815
Pages : 208 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (89 downloads)
Download Teaching Problem Solving Through Children's Literature PDF Format Full Free by James W. Forgan and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2003 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 40 ready-to-use plans promote cooperation and shared problem-solving. Each lesson focuses on a children's literature character that is faced with a problem-solving situation. Through discussion questions and other activities, students will learn problem-solving strategies that can be applied to any situation.
Author : Elizabeth Lennox Keyser
Publisher : Yale University Press
Release Date : 2002-01-01
ISBN 13 : 0300094892
Pages : 278 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (94 downloads)
Download Children's Literature PDF Format Full Free by Elizabeth Lennox Keyser and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annual of The Modern Language Association Division on Children’s Literature and The Children’s Literature Association ARTICLES: Perry Nodelman Speculations on the Characteristics of Children’s Fiction; Roderick McGillis The Pleasure of the Process; Thomas Travisano Of Dialectic and Divided Consciousness; Margaret R. Higonnet A Pride of Pleasures; Perry Nodelman The Urge to Sameness; Kenneth Kidd Boyology in the Twentieth Century; Marilynn Olson Turn-of-the-Century Grotesque; Peter Hollindale Plain Speaking; Hamida Bosmajian Doris Orgel’s The Devil in Vienna; Joseph Stanton Maurice Sendak’s Urban Landscapes. VARIA: Andrea Immel James Pettit Andrews’s "Books" (1790); Penny Mahon "Things by Their Right Name"; Phyllis Bixler The Lion and the Lamb. IN MEMORIAM: R. H. W. Dillard In Memoriam: Francelia Butler, 1913–1998; John Cech In Mansfield Hollow: For Francelia; Eric Dawson Francelia’s Dream. REVIEWS: Anita Tarr "Still so much work to be done"; Gillian Adams A Fuzzy Genre; Kenneth Kidd Crosswriting the School Story; Raymond E. Jones A New Salvo in the Literary Battle of the Sexes; Stephen Canham From Wonderland to the Marketplace; Jan Susina Dealing with Victorian Fairies; Gregory Eiselein Reading a Feminist Romance; Anne K. Phillips The Wizard of Oz in the Twentieth Century; June Cummins "Where the Girls Are"—and Aren’t; Deborah Stevenson Letters from the Editor; Hamida Bosmajian Dangerous Images; Roberta Seelinger Trites The Transactional School of Children’s Literature Criticism. DISSERTATIONS OF NOTE: Mary Mayfield and Rachel Fordyce
Author : Virginia Thomas
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Release Date : 1986-01-01
ISBN 13 : 9780804216906
Pages : 120 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (84 downloads)
Download Children's Literature for All God's Children PDF Format Full Free by Virginia Thomas and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The themes, words, and concepts in children's literature speak to the whole Christian community. Virginia Thomas and Betty Miller have examined children's literature and designed an extensive annotated list of children's stories, poems, folk tales, and fiction that express faith, belief, theology, and Christian principles. This unique resource/reference handbook gives the church the opportunity to function as a united community of believers. Children and adults have the chance to study and learn together -- grow as a whole community.Thomas and Miller offer a practical approach to children's literature that gives background and theory, an evaluation of techniques, "how-to" guidelines, suggestions for use, lists of books, two annotated bibliographies, and indices: subject and themes, genre, and book awards. Explains: why children's literature is a good resource for Christians where to find good stories how significant themes are adapted for different age levels how to evaluate stories how to use them Parents, teachers, and ministers will delight with children in this new approach to sharing, learning, teaching, and worship. The bibliography of books for all ages is a treasure-house of information. Features basic book information, summary, and themes values. This is an educational tool that provides a new avenue to understanding our faith.
Author : Elizabeth Bird
Publisher : American Library Association
Release Date : 2009
ISBN 13 : 0838997201
Pages : 137 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (997 downloads)
Download Children's Literature Gems PDF Format Full Free by Elizabeth Bird and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2009 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master the huge array of quality children's books from the past and the present with this must-have resource from children's librarian Elizabeth Bird.
Author : International Research Society for Children's Literature. Congress
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date : 2003
ISBN 13 : 9780313321207
Pages : 248 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (313 downloads)
Download Children's Literature and the Fin de Siècle PDF Format Full Free by International Research Society for Children's Literature. Congress and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2003 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The close of a century invites both retrospection and prognostication. As a period of transition, it also brings a sense of uncertainty, finality, and apocalypticism. This volume examines fin de siecle tensions in 19th- and 20th-century children's literature from around the world. The contributors look back at children's literature of the past and ahead toward children's literature of the future, while probing such issues as literary nonsense and the breakdown of language, the image of the child as redeemer, social engineering in children's literature, the Holocaust in children's fiction, fear in contemporary fantasy, and changing notions of masculinity.
Author : Maria Nikolajeva
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date : 1995
ISBN 13 : 9780313296147
Pages : 228 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (313 downloads)
Download Aspects and Issues in the History of Children's Literature PDF Format Full Free by Maria Nikolajeva and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 1995 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars from 10 countries address children's literature as a literary art form and provide an international perspective on its history and evolution.
Author : Erica Hateley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2010-12-21
ISBN 13 : 0415888883
Pages : 218 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (888 downloads)
Download Shakespeare in Children's Literature PDF Format Full Free by Erica Hateley and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare in Children's Literature looks at the genre of Shakespeare-for-children, considering both adaptations of his plays and children's novels in which he appears as a character. Drawing on feminist theory and sociology, Hateley demonstrates how Shakespeare for children utilizes the ongoing cultural capital of "Shakespeare," and the pedagogical aspects of children's literature, to perpetuate anachronistic forms of identity and authority.
