Children category: 1253 books
by Jennifer Beidendorf, Mary Elizabeth Bezanson, Lauren Rose Camacci
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
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...
Irish Children's Literature and Culture
New Perspectives on Contemporary Writing
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Irish Children’s Literature and Culture looks critically at Irish writing for children from the 1980s to the present, examining the work of many writers and illustrators and engaging with major genres, forms, and issues, including the gothic, the speculative, picturebooks, ethnicity, and globalization....
Child Autonomy and Child Governance in Children's Literature
Where Children Rule
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
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 frequently represented as a state of being, with children seen as aliens in need of passports to Adultland...
Who Writes for Black Children?
African American Children’s Literature before 1900
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
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 literature read by black children. This volume’s combination of analytic essays, bibliographic materials,...
by Claudia Mills
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Exploring the ethical questions posed by, in, and about children’s literature, this collection examines the way texts intended for children raise questions of value, depict the moral development of their characters, and call into attention shared moral presuppositions. The essays in Part I look...
British Hymn Books for Children, 1800-1900
Re-Tuning the History of Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
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 of the era, hymn books were often compilations of many writers' hymns, presenting the discerning child...
Relentless Progress
The Reconfiguration of Children's Literature, Fairy Tales, and Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Can fairy tales subvert consumerism? Can fantasy and children's literature counter the homogenizing influence of globalization? Can storytellers retain their authenticity in the age of consumerism? These are some of the critical questions raised by Jack Zipes, the celebrated scholar of fairy tales...
The Early Reader in Children's Literature and Culture
Theorizing Books for Beginning Readers
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This is the first volume to consider the popular literary category of Early Readers – books written and designed for children who are just beginning to read independently. It argues that Early Readers deserve more scholarly attention and careful thought because they are, for many younger readers,...
Little Red Readings
Historical Materialist Perspectives on Children’s Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
A significant body of scholarship examines the production of children's literature by women and minorities, as well as the representation of gender, race, and sexuality. But few scholars have previously analyzed class in children's literature. This definitive collection remedies that by defining and...
by Mr David Selwyn
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Jane Austen is not usually associated with children - especially since she had none of her own. But there are in fact more children in her novels than one might at first think. She herself was from a sizeable family, with numerous nephews and nieces. She was, by all accounts, good with children and...
The Making of Modern Children's Literature in Britain
Publishing and Criticism in the 1960s and 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Lucy Pearson’s lively and engaging book examines British children’s literature during the period widely regarded as a ’second golden age’. Drawing extensively on archival material, Pearson investigates the practical and ideological factors that shaped ideas of ’good’ children’s literature...
by Tison Pugh
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children’s Literature examines distinguished classics of children’s literature both old and new—including L. Frank Baum’s Oz books, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House series, J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels, Lemony Snicket’s A Series...
Suffer the Little Children
Uses of the Past in Jewish and African American Children's Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
This
compelling work examines classic and contemporary Jewish and African American
children’s literature. Through close readings of selected titles published
since 1945, Jodi Eichler-Levine analyzes what is at stake in portraying religious
history for young people, particularly when the histories...
Children's Culture and the Avant-Garde
Painting in Paris, 1890-1915
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
This volume explores the mutual influences between children’s literature and the avant-garde. Olson places particular focus on fin-de-siècle Paris, where the Avant-garde was not unified in thought and there was room for modernism to overlap with children’s literature and culture in the Golden...