Children's Book Review Index
Seit der Antike bezeichnet die Stimme der Frau ein diskursives Spannungsfeld, das von tiefen AEngsten und Leidenschaften gepragt ist. An der Schnittstelle von Koerper und Kultur, von Selbst und Anderem, beschaftigt das Faszinosum der weiblichen Stimme auch die philosophischen, literarischen und psychologischen Theorien des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts. Die Literatur Englands im achtzehnten Jahrhundert ist von zwei bahnbrechenden Neuerungen gepragt: der Entstehung des Romans und dem Aufstieg der weib...
Humor in Contemporary Junior Literature (Children's Literature and Culture)
by Julie Cross
In this new book, Julie Cross examines the intricacies of textual humor in contemporary junior literature, using the tools of literary criticism and humor theory. Cross investigates the dialectical paradoxes of humor and debunks the common belief in oppositional binaries of 'simple' versus 'complex' humor. The varied combinations of so-called high and low forms of humor within junior texts for young readers, who are at such a crucial stage of their reading and social development, provide a valua...
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.