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...
Michelangelo Tangelo - The Search for Self Identity
by Wayne Anthony Gulley Sr
The adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill take them to Oz where they help solve the problem of Pom, whose truelove's heart has been turned to ice by witches.
This is the compelling story of the real Beatrix Potter, based on interviews with those who knew her. Spread over the 40 years that the author edited "Cumbria Magazine", these interviews recall memories stretching back to the time when Beatrix bought the now famous Hill Top farm at Sawrey in the heart of Lakeland. She was already internationally acclaimed for her series of 'Peter Rabbit' books and her local status was increased when she married William Heelis, a Hawkshead solicitor. The books ga...
For most of Canada's history, its children's literature, with the exception of such notable authors as Charles G.D. Roberts, Ernest Thompson Seton, L.M. Montgomery, and Grey Owl (Archibald Belaney), was not a growth industry. British and American books were readily available and had already achieved approval in the centres of intellect or fashion. More recently, however, with a larger and more diverse population and with the support of numerous publishers specializing in the field and a growing...
Modern children's literature is currently receiving much public and critical attention. Organized to show developments in children's literature over time and across genres, this attractively illustrated introductory guide looks at key British, American and Australian works, from picture books and texts for younger children, through to graphic novels and young adult fiction. Each chapter applies specific critical approaches, supported by explanatory boxed material and suggestions for further read...
Territories of Empire (Oxford Studies in American Literary History, #7)
by Andy Doolen
In contrast to later imperial pursuits in Mexico, Cuba, and the Philippines, the early United States extended its boundaries through less sensational modes of territorialization: land deals, slavery expansion, treaty diplomacy, immigration and settlement, and the addition of new states on the border. Never the exclusive top-down product of any single strategic plan, empire building relied rather on a hazy, ever-shifting boundary between state and non-state action. Territories of Empire examines...
Subject Guide to Children's Books in Print, 1999 (Subject Guide to Children's Books in Print)
The Gopal-Rakhal Dialectic - Colonialism and Children`s Literature in Bengal
by Sibaji Bandyopadhyay, Rani Ray, and Nivedita Sen
Literature for children is a distinctive achievement of the Bengali language. In it, we get numerous illustrations of primers that are meant to initiate reading and writing among children, poems and nursery rhymes, fables and fairy tales, prose pieces and stories, plays and novels, all of which are unique in their style and content, exceptional in their taste and flavor. Innumerable books have been produced, countless magazines have been printed and the annual Puja compilations have been put tog...