Sparing the Child (Children's Literature and Culture)
by Hamida Bosmajian
Bosmajian explores children's texts that have either a Holocaust survivor or a former member of the Hitler Youth as a protagonist.
How children and children’s literature helped build America’s empire America’s empire was not made by adults alone. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, young people became essential to its creation. Through children’s literature, authors instilled the idea of America’s power and the importance of its global prominence. As kids eagerly read dime novels, series fiction, pulp magazines, and comic books that dramatized the virtues of empire, they helped entrench a growing belief in Americ...
Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit (Children's Literature Association Centennial Studies)
Thirteen essays explore the timeless appeal of Peter's antics, and the impact of this extraordinary book on children worldwide. Contributors, each a respected scholar in the field of children's literature, examine details of Potter's life, her history as an artist, her accomplishments as a naturalist, and the contextual factors affecting her writing and illustrations. Others investigate the timelessness of this story, exploring its psychological and sociological truths and comparing Peter Rabbit...
Glinda of Oz (Wizard of Oz, #14) (Oz Complete, #14)
by L. Frank Baum and Layman Frank Baum
The Sorceress and Wizard of Oz attempt to save Princess Ozma and Dorothy from the dangers which threaten them when they try to bring peace to two warring tribes.
Handbook for the California Young Reader Medal Nominees, 1990-91
by Bette Debruyne and Gale W Sherman
George Washington Carver (The Library of American Lives and Times)
by Linda Mcmurray Edwards
This innovative text addresses the most current issues in children's literature, particularly cultural diversity and multiculturalism. It seeks to define, compare, contrast and apply various genre as it can be integrated within a regular elementary curriculum setting. The emergence of children's literature that is multicultural is clearly explained while connections to theories of child development are made. Also included are various curricular applications of multicultural literature in lesson...
Daddy-Long-Legs (Alma Junior Classics) (Classic Youth Plays of the Broadway Stage)
by Jean Webster
Jerusha Abbott, an orphan, does not know the identity of the mysterious "Daddy-Long-Legs" who is paying her way through college. But although she is told to expect no reply to the many letters she sends him, some things are just irresistible.
Allyn & Bacon's Children's Literature Library (featuring 10 select titles from Penguin Putnam)
by Parks
SPECIAL OFFER! Order Diana Mitchell's "Children's Literature: An Invitation to the World" and get 10 children's books FREE! FEATURED TITLES ARE: Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (Dahl) * Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes (Dahl) * I Am Rosa Parks (Parks) * Bit by Bit (Sanfield) * Chato's Kitchen (Soto) * Mary on Horseback: Three Mountain Stories (Wells) * The Devil's Arithmetic (Yolen) * Lon Po Po (Young) * Seven Blind Mice (Young) * Getting Near to Baby
Otfried Preussler - Werk Und Wirkung (Kinder- Und Jugendkultur, -Literatur Und -Medien, #86)
Mit den elf Beitragen zu Otfried Preussler, die auf eine Tagung mit deutscher, oesterreichischer und tschechischer Beteiligung zuruck gehen, werden seine Werke in neue interpretatorische Zusammenhange gestellt. Eingeleitet durch ein Autoren-Portrait, das das Schaffen Preusslers im Rahmen der weitgefacherten Diskussion um den Begriff Mitteleuropa eroertert, werden biographische, historische, motivgeschichtliche und mediale Aspekte behandelt. Es zeigt sich bei diesem Autor so anschaulich wie bei k...