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Understanding Children's Literature

Author : Peter Hunt
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2006-05-17
ISBN 13 : 1134186584
Pages : 232 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (186 downloads)

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Download Understanding Children's Literature PDF Format Full Free by Peter Hunt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-05-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Peter Hunt, a leading figure in the field, this book introduces the study of children’s literature, addressing theoretical questions as well as the most relevant critical approaches to the discipline. The fourteen chapters draw on insights from academic disciplines ranging from cultural and literary studies to education and psychology, and include an essay on what writers for children think about their craft. The result is a fascinating array of perspectives on key topics in children’s literature as well as an introduction to such diverse concerns as literacy, ideology, stylistics, feminism, history, culture and bibliotherapy. An extensive general bibliography is complemented by lists of further reading for each chapter and a glossary defines critical and technical terms, making the book accessible for those coming to the field or to a particular approach for the first time. In this second edition there are four entirely new chapters; contributors have revisited and revised or rewritten seven of the chapters to reflect new thinking, while the remaining three are classic essays, widely acknowledged to be definitive. Understanding Children’s Literature will not only be an invaluable guide for students of literature or education, but it will also inform and enrich the practice of teachers and librarians.

Understanding Children's Literature

Author : Peter Hunt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 1999
ISBN 13 : 0415195462
Pages : 199 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (195 downloads)

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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.

Children's Literature

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)

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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

Understanding Children's Literature

Author : Peter Hunt
Publisher :
Release Date : 2003
ISBN 13 :
Pages : 188 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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Growing and Knowing: A Selection Guide for Children's Literature

Author : Mary Trim
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2004-01-01
ISBN 13 : 3598440073
Pages : 279 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (44 downloads)

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Download Growing and Knowing: A Selection Guide for Children's Literature PDF Format Full Free by Mary Trim and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary function of this book is to serve as a guide to the selection of books for children, recognizing the vast range of books published and the individual rates of reading and social development of different children.

Human Rights in Children's Literature

Author : Jonathan Todres
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-12-01
ISBN 13 : 0190213353
Pages : 240 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (213 downloads)

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Download Human Rights in Children's Literature PDF Format Full Free by Jonathan Todres and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 that they make a difference in children's lives? Human rights education research demonstrates that when children learn about human rights, they exhibit greater self-esteem and respect the rights of others. The Convention on the Rights of the Child -- the most widely-ratified human rights treaty -- not only ensures that children have rights, it also requires that states make those rights "widely known, by appropriate and active means, to adults and children alike." This first-of-its-kind requirement for a human rights treaty indicates that if rights are to be meaningful to the lives of children, then government and civil society must engage with those rights in ways that are relevant to children. Human Rights in Children's Literature investigates children's rights under international law -- identity and family rights, the right to be heard, the right to be free from discrimination, and other civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights -- and considers the way in which those rights are embedded in children's literature from Peter Rabbit to Horton Hears a Who! to Harry Potter. This book traverses children's rights law, literary theory, and human rights education to argue that in order for children to fully realize their human rights, they first have to imagine and understand them.

Children's Literature in the Classroom

Author : Diane M. Barone
Publisher : Guilford Press
Release Date : 2011-03-08
ISBN 13 : 1606239406
Pages : 242 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (239 downloads)

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Download Children's Literature in the Classroom PDF Format Full Free by Diane M. Barone and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many reading programs today overlook an essential component of literacy instruction—helping children develop an enduring love of reading. This authoritative and accessible guide provides a wealth of ideas for incorporating high-quality children's books of all kinds into K–6 classrooms. Numerous practical strategies are presented for engaging students with picturebooks, fiction, nonfiction, and nontraditional texts. Lively descriptions of recommended books and activities are interspersed with invaluable tips for fitting authentic reading experiences into the busy school day. Every chapter concludes with reflection questions and suggestions for further reading. The volume also features reproducible worksheets and forms.

Children's Literature in Context

Author : Fiona McCulloch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2011-09-22
ISBN 13 : 1441148183
Pages : 192 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (148 downloads)

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Download Children's Literature in Context PDF Format Full Free by Fiona McCulloch and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children's Literature in Context is a clear, accessible and concise introduction to children's literature and its wider contexts. It begins by introducing key issues involved in the study of children's literature and its social, cultural and literary contexts. Close readings of commonly studied texts including Lewis Carroll's Alice books, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the Harry Potter series and the His Dark Materials trilogy highlight major themes and ways of reading children's literature. A chapter on afterlives and adaptations explores a range of wider cultural texts including the film adaptations of Harry Potter, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Golden Compass. The final section introduces key critical interpretations from different perspectives on issues including innocence, gender, fantasy, psychoanalysis and ideology. 'Review, Reading and Research' sections give suggestions for further reading, discussion and research. Introducing texts, contexts and criticism, this is a lively and up-to-date resource for anyone studying children's literature.

Exploring Children's Literature

Author : Nikki Gamble
Publisher : SAGE
Release Date : 2013-06-24
ISBN 13 : 1446276465
Pages : 290 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (276 downloads)

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Download Exploring Children's Literature PDF Format Full Free by Nikki Gamble and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the role of children's literature in promoting reading for pleasure and creating lifelong readers. Focusing on a range of fiction relevant to the National Curriculum, it covers genres such as poetry, non-fiction, traditional stories and picture books. Concepts and terminology are explained through a wide range of examples. This revised edition includes -Investigative activities and practical exercises for personal or classroom use -Examples from world literature and work in translation highlighting the range of diverse material available for teaching inspiration -Coverage of social, cultural and political reading practices to increase understanding of factors that influence children's reading experience -Coverage of disability and equality issues to help inform teaching strategies that overcome barriers to learning. This book is essential for students on PGCE, BEd and BA Education courses, and for teachers undertaking CPD in English, literacy or children's literature. It provides useful support material for language coordinators and literacy consultants, and can be used to support distance-learning, as an aid to self-study, or as a course text.

The Rhetorical Power of Children's Literature

Author : John H. Saunders
Publisher : Lexington Books
Release Date : 2016-12-21
ISBN 13 : 1498543308
Pages : 192 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (543 downloads)

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Download The Rhetorical Power of Children's Literature PDF Format Full Free by John H. Saunders and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-12-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 children’s literature from picture books to young adult novels. Collectively, this volume’s contributions interrogate how children’s literature is a powerful yet under examined space of rhetorical discourse that influences one of the most vulnerable segments of our population. This book is singularly unique given that it will be the first collection of essays on children’s literature from the distinct perspective of the field of Communication. Beyond topical novelty, the contributors utilize a range of scholarly methods to analyze instances of the rhetoric of children’s literature. Consequently, essays in this volume may be read for both their specific topical content and as exemplars for multiple methodological approaches to the study of the rhetoric of children’s literature. Collectively, the contributors set out to contribute to our knowledge of how instances of children’s literature operate as rhetorical discourses. The volume is organized by case studies approached through critical, rhetorical lenses that analyze specific instances of children’s literature from two distinct stages of children’s developmental reading experiences including pre/early literacy and fluent reading. Structurally, the book includes eight content chapters divided evenly with four chapters analyzing books for young children and four chapters analyzing books targeting audiences from late-childhood to adolescence. An overview of each content chapter accompanies this proposal. is an edited volume with contributions from established and new scholars of rhetoric offering case studies that analyze a full array of genres in children’s literature from picture books to young adult novels. Collectively, this volume’s contributions interrogate how children’s literature is a powerful yet under examined space of rhetorical discourse that influences one of the most vulnerable segments of our population. This book is singularly unique given that it will be the first collection of essays on children’s literature from the distinct perspective of the field of Communication. Beyond topical novelty, the contributors utilize a range of scholarly methods to analyze instances of the rhetoric of children’s literature. Consequently, essays in this volume may be read for both their specific topical content and as exemplars for multiple methodological approaches to the study of the rhetoric of children’s literature. Collectively, the contributors set out to contribute to our knowledge of how instances of children’s literature operate as rhetorical discourses. The volume is organized by case studies approached through critical, rhetorical lenses that analyze specific instances of children’s literature from two distinct stages of children’s developmental reading experiences including pre/early literacy and fluent reading. Structurally, the book includes eight content chapters divided evenly with four chapters analyzing books for young children and four chapters analyzing books targeting audiences from late-childhood to adolescence. An overview of each content chapter accompanies this proposal.

Experiencing Environment and Place through Children's Literature

Author : Amy Cutter-Mackenzie
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-11
ISBN 13 : 1317979451
Pages : 319 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (979 downloads)

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Download Experiencing Environment and Place through Children's Literature PDF Format Full Free by Amy Cutter-Mackenzie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent scholarship on children’s literature displays a wide variety of interests in classic and contemporary children’s books. While environmental and ecological concerns have led to an interest in ‘ecocriticism’, as yet there is little on the significance of the ecological imagination and experience to both the authors and readers – young and old – of these texts. This edited collection brings together a set of original international research-based chapters to explore the role of children’s literature in learning about environments and places, with a focus on how children’s literature may inform and enrich our imagination, experiences and responses to environmental challenges and injustice. Contributions from Australia, Canada, USA and UK explore the diverse ways in which children’s literature can provide what are arguably some of the first and possibly most formative engagements that some children might have with ‘nature’. Chapters examine classic and new storybooks, mythic tales, and image-based and/or written texts read at home, in school and in the field. Contributors focus on exploring how children’s literature mediates and informs our imagination and understandings of diverse environments and places, and how it might open our eyes and lives to other presences, understandings and priorities through stories, their telling and re-telling, and their analysis. This book was originally published as a special issue of Environmental Education Research.

Classical Reception and Children's Literature

Author : Owen Hodkinson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-01-30
ISBN 13 : 1786733293
Pages : 352 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (733 downloads)

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Download Classical Reception and Children's Literature PDF Format Full Free by Owen Hodkinson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reception studies have transformed the classics. Many more literary and cultural texts are now regarded as 'valid' for classical study. And within this process of widening, children's literature has in its turn emerged as being increasingly important. Books written for children now comprise one of the largest and most prominent bodies of texts to engage with the classical world, with an audience that constantly changes as it grows up. This innovative volume wrestles with that very characteristic of change which is so fundamental to children's literature, showing how significant the classics, as well as classically-inspired fiction and verse, have been in tackling the adolescent challenges posed by metamorphosis. Chapters address such themes as the use made by C S Lewis, in The Horse and his Boy, of Apuleius' The Golden Ass; how Ovidian myth frames the Narnia stories; classical 'nonsense' in Edward Lear; Pan as a powerful symbol of change in children's literature, for instance in The Wind in the Willows; the transformative power of the Orpheus myth; and how works for children have handled the teaching of the classics.

Constructing the Canon of Children's Literature

Author : Anne Lundin
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2004-10-15
ISBN 13 : 1135576408
Pages : 197 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (576 downloads)

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Download Constructing the Canon of Children's Literature PDF Format Full Free by Anne Lundin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-10-15 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pioneering historical study, Anne Lundin argues that schools, libraries, professional organizations, and the media together create and influence the constantly changing canon of children's literature. Lundin examines the circumstances out of which the canon emerges, and its effect on the production of children's literature. The volume includes a comprehensive list of canonical titles for reference.

Canon Constitution and Canon Change in Children’s Literature

Author : Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-01
ISBN 13 : 1317397010
Pages : 254 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (397 downloads)

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Download Canon Constitution and Canon Change in Children’s Literature PDF Format Full Free by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 by international experts in the field explore a wide range of different children’s literatures from Great Britain, Germany, Scandinavia, the Low Countries, Eastern and Central Europe, as well as from Non-European countries such as Australia, Israel, and the United States. Situating the inquiry within larger literary and cultural studies conversations about canonicity, the contributors assess representative authors and works that have encountered changing fates in the course of canon history. Particular emphasis is given to sociological canon theories, which have so far been under-represented in canon research in children’s literature. The volume therefore relates historical changes in the canon of children’s literature not only to historical changes in concepts of childhood but to more encompassing political, social, economic, cultural, and ideological shifts. This volume’s comparative approach takes cognizance of the fact that, if canon formation is an important cultural factor in nation-building processes, a comparative study is essential to assessing transnational processes in canon formation. This book thus renders evident the structural similarities between patterns and strategies of canon formation emerging in different children’s literatures.

Representing Children in Chinese and U.S. Children's Literature

Author : Ms Rebecca Morris
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2014-11-28
ISBN 13 : 1472424239
Pages : 257 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (424 downloads)

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Download Representing Children in Chinese and U.S. Children's Literature PDF Format Full Free by Ms Rebecca Morris and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-11-28 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together children’s literature scholars from China and the United States, this collection provides an introduction to the scope and goals of a field characterized by active but also distinctive scholarship in two countries with very different rhetorical traditions. The volume’s five sections highlight the differences between and overlapping concerns of Chinese and American scholars, as they examine children’s literature with respect to cultural metaphors and motifs, historical movements, authorship, didacticism, important themes, and the current status of and future directions for literature and criticism. Wide-ranging and admirably ambitious in its encouragement of communication between scholars from two major nations, Representing Children in Chinese and U.S. Children’s Literature serves as a model for examining how and why children’s literature, more than many literary forms, circulates internationally.

Space and Place in Children’s Literature, 1789 to the Present

Author : Asst Prof Maria Sachiko Cecire
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2015-03-28
ISBN 13 : 1472420543
Pages : 273 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (42 downloads)

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Download Space and Place in Children’s Literature, 1789 to the Present PDF Format Full Free by Asst Prof Maria Sachiko Cecire and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-03-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on questions of space and locale in children’s literature, this collection explores how metaphorical and physical space can create landscapes of power, knowledge, and identity in texts from the early nineteenth century to the present. The contributors, who include Philip Pullman discussing his relationship to space and locale, analyze works from a range of sources and traditions by Sylvia Plath, Gloria Anzaldúa, Jenny Robson, C.S. Lewis, and Elizabeth Knox, among others.

Irish Children’s Literature and the Poetics of Memory

Author : Rebecca Long
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-03-25
ISBN 13 : 1350167266
Pages : 208 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (167 downloads)

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Download Irish Children’s Literature and the Poetics of Memory PDF Format Full Free by Rebecca Long and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the mythological narratives that influence Irish children's literature, this book examines the connections between landscape, time and identity, positing that myth and the language of myth offer authors and readers the opportunity to engage with Ireland's culture and heritage. It explores the recurring patterns of Irish mythological narratives that influence literature produced for children in Ireland between the nineteenth and the twenty-first centuries. A selection of children's books published between 1892, when there was an escalation of the cultural pursuit of Irish independence and 2016, which marked the centenary of the Easter 1916 rebellion against English rule, are discussed with the aim of demonstrating the development of a pattern of retrieving, re-telling, remembering and re-imagining myths in Irish children's literature. In doing so, it examines the reciprocity that exists between imagination, memory, and childhood experiences in this body of work.