Children category: 1253 books
How did Long John Silver Lose his Leg?
And Twenty-Six Other Mysteries of Children's Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
How did Long John Silver Lose His Leg? is a wonderfully diverting tour through some of the best-loved classics of children's literature, addressing many of the unanswered questions that inspire intense speculation when the books are laid down. Could Bobbie's train really have stopped in time (The...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Critical Approaches to Food in Children’s Literature is the first scholarly volume on the topic, connecting children's literature to the burgeoning discipline of food studies. Following the lead of historians like Mark Kurlansky, Jeffrey Pilcher and Massimo Montanari, who use food as a fundamental...
Beyond Babar
The European Tradition in Children's Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2006
All too often, attention is paid only to those children's novels that were written in English, with non-English-language works being passed over and neglected. Beyond Babar: The European Tradition in Children's Literature examines eleven of the most celebrated European children's novels in substantial,...
Reading in the Dark
Horror in Children's Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Dark novels, shows, and films targeted toward children and young adults are proliferating wildly. It is even more crucial now to understand the methods by which such texts have traditionally operated and how those methods have been challenged, abandoned, and appropriated. Reading in the Dark fills...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
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...
Introducing Children's Literature
From Romanticism to Postmodernism
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
Introducing Children's Literature is an ideal guide to reading children's literature through the perspective of literary history. Focusing on the major literary movements from Romanticism to Postmodernism, Thacker and Webb examine the concerns of each period and the ways in which these concerns influence...
by Debra Mitts-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
From the villainous beast of “Little Red Riding Hood” and “The Three Little Pigs,” to the nurturing wolves of Romulus and Remus and Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, the wolf has long been a part of the landscape of children’s literature. Meanwhile, since the 1960s and the popularization...
Eleanor Cameron
Dimensions of Amazement
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Eleanor Cameron (1912-1996) was an innovative and genre-defying author of children's fiction and children's literature criticism. From her beginnings as a librarian, Cameron went on to become a prominent and respected voice in children's literature, writing one of the most beloved children's science...
Growing Up Again
Parenting Ourselves, Parenting Our Children
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2009
Growing Up Again offers guidance on providing children with the structure and nurturing that are so critical to their healthy development -- and to our own.
As time-tested as it is timely, the expert advice in Growing Up Again Second Edition has helped thousands of readers improve on their...
by Anastasia Ulanowicz
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Winner of the Children’s Literature Association Book Award
This book visits a range of textual forms including diary, novel, and picturebook to explore the relationship between second-generation memory and contemporary children’s literature. Ulanowicz argues that second-generation memory...
Unwelcome Inheritance
Break Your Family's Cycle of Addictive Behaviors
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Parents affected by addiction can enable their children’s substance abuse and even model addictive behaviors learned from their own parents, passing the cycle on from generation to generation. Learn what you can do to help yourself, your children, and future generations break the cycle of addiction...
Contemporary English-Language Indian Children's Literature
Representations of Nation, Culture, and the New Indian Girl
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Concurrent with increasing scholarly attention toward national children’s literatures, Contemporary English-language Indian Children’s Literature explores an emerging body of work that has thus far garnered little serious critical attention. Superle critically examines the ways Indian children’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
This book allows philosophers, literary theorists, and education specialists to come together to offer a series of readings on works of children’s literature. Each of their readings is focused on pairing a particular, popular picture book or a chapter book with philosophical texts or themes.
The...
Children's Literature and the Posthuman
Animal, Environment, Cyborg
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
An investigation of identity formation in children's literature, this book brings together children’s literature and recent critical concerns with posthuman identity to argue that children’s fiction offers sophisticated interventions into debates about what it means to be human, and in particular...