Children category: 1253 books

The world of contemporary American infants and young children is saturated with inappropriate images of American Indians. American Indian Stereotypes in the World of Children reveals and discusses these images and cultural stereotypes through writings like Kathy Kerner's previously unpublished essay...

This book situates the picturebook genre within the widespread international phenomenon of crossover literature, examining an international corpus of picturebooks — including artists’ books, wordless picturebooks, and celebrity picturebooks — that appeal to readers of all ages. Focusing on contemporary...

THE QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE  is one children's book of Francis Bret Harte  was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. And watercolour illustrations Kate Greenaway, was an English children's book illustrator and writer. This is a...

Highly illuminating for parents, vital for students and book lovers alike, Enchanted Hunters transforms our understanding of why children should read. Ever wondered why little children love listening to stories, why older ones get lost in certain books? In this enthralling work, Maria Tatar...

The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck is a children's book written and illustrated by the famous author of children's stories: Beatrix Potter: Potter composed the book at Hill Top, a working farm in the Lake District she bought in 1905. Following the purchase, her works began to focus on country and village...

The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan (originally, The Pie and the Patty-Pan) a children's book written and illustrated by the famous author of children's stories: Beatrix Potter: It tells of a cat called Ribby and a tea party she holds for a dog called Duchess. Complications arise when Duchess tries...

A Past Without Shadow examines 50 years of German children's books in which the darkest horrors of the Third Reich have routinely remained hidden. The horrors of the Third Reich are systematically screened and filtered, allowing the darker, bleaker parts of history to escape illumination. Here Zohar...

Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOAs) all experienced traumatic childhoods. As a result, they suffer crippling self-esteem difficulties, troubled relationships, loneliness and a multitude of other problems as adults. ACOAs often are unaware of their feelings, don’t get their needs met, react inappropriately,...

Have you ever tried to keep a couple of children busy during school vacation or on weekends when they’re in the “I’m bored” mode? What ever you might suggest is shot down, and they just get under your feet and don’t feel like going out to play. Then this is the time to introduce them to...

Soon Come Home to This Island traces the representation of West Indian characters in British children's literature from 1700 to today. This book challenges traditional notions of British children's literature as mono-cultural by illuminating the contributions of colonial and postcolonial-era Black...

Drawing evidence from transatlantic literary texts of childhood as well as from nineteenth and early twentieth century children’s and family card, board, and parlor games and games manuals, Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Childhood and the Politics of Play aims to reveal what might be thought of...

 The Young Adult novel is ordinarily characterized as a coming-of-age story, in which the narrative revolves around the individual growth and maturation of a character, but Roberta Trites expands this notion by chronicling the dynamics of power and repression that weave their way through YA books....

In this new book, Noga Applebaum surveys science fiction novels published for children and young adults from 1980 to the present, exposing the anti-technological bias existing within a genre often associated with the celebration of technology. Applebaum argues that perceptions of technology as a corrupting...

The Tale of Benjamin Bunny is a children's book written and illustrated by the famous author of children's stories: Beatrix Potter: The book is a sequel to The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902), and tells of Peter's return to Mr. McGregor's garden with his cousin Benjamin to retrieve the clothes he lost...