Children category: 1253 books
Reading the World's Stories
An Annotated Bibliography of International Youth Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Reading the World’s Stories is volume 5 in the Bridges to Understanding series of annotated international youth literature bibliographies sponsored by the United States Board on Books for Young People. USBBY is the United States chapter of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY),...
Between Generations
Collaborative Authorship in the Golden Age of Children's Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Between Generations is a multidisciplinary volume that reframes children as powerful forces in the production of their own literature and culture by uncovering a tradition of creative, collaborative partnerships between adults and children in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England. The intergenerational...
Childhood and the Classics
Britain and America, 1850-1965
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
The dissemination of classical material to children has long been a major form of popularization with far-reaching effects, although until very recently it has received almost no attention within the growing field of classical reception studies. This volume explores the ways in which children encountered...
Beasts at Bedtime
Revealing the Environmental Wisdom in Children’s Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Talking lions, philosophical bears, very hungry caterpillars, wise spiders, altruistic trees, companionable moles, urbane elephants: this is the magnificent menagerie that delights our children at bedtime. Within the entertaining pages of many children’s books, however, also lie profound teachings...
by Matthew R. Hemenez
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
All children have a ROAR, they just need to how and when to use it.
The Story-For Children
Children of all ages will enjoy reading about Nathan’s adventures through life. Their emotions will be provoked by Nathan’s encounters with neighborhood bullies who won’t leave him alone....
Picturing Canada
A History of Canadian Children's Illustrated Books and Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
The study of children's illustrated books is located within the broad histories of print culture, publishing, the book trade, and concepts of childhood. An interdisciplinary history, Picturing Canada provides a critical understanding of the changing geographical, historical, and cultural aspects of...
by Kimberley Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Children's literature takes many forms - works adapted for children in antiquity, picture books and pop-ups - and now includes the latest online games and eBooks. This vast and amorphous subject is both intimately related to other areas of literary and cultural investigation but also has its own set...
A Family of Readers
The Book Lover's Guide to Children's and Young Adult Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Two of the most trusted reviewers in the field join with top authors, illustrators, and critics in a definitive guide to choosing books for children—and nurturing their love of reading.
A FAMILY OF READERS is the definitive resource for parents interested in enriching the reading lives of...
Prizing Children's Literature
The Cultural Politics of Children’s Book Awards
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Children's book awards have mushroomed since the early twentieth-century and especially since the 1960s, when literary prizing became a favored strategy for both commercial promotion and canon-making. There are over 300 awards for English-language titles alone, but despite the profound impact of children’s...
by Jane Suzanne Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This book provides a new critical methodology for the study of landscapes in children's literature. Treating landscape as the integration of unchanging and irreducible physical elements, or topoi, Carroll identifies and analyses four kinds of space — sacred spaces, green spaces, roadways, and lapsed...
Graphic Novels for Children and Young Adults
A Collection of Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
With contributions by Eti Berland, Rebecca A. Brown, Christiane Buuck, Joanna C. Davis-McElligatt, Rachel Dean-Ruzicka, Karly Marie Grice, Mary Beth Hines, Krystal Howard, Aaron Kashtan, Michael L. Kersulov, Catherine Kyle, David E. Low, Anuja Madan, Meghann Meeusen, Rachel L. Rickard Rebellino, Rebecca...
Subjectivity in Asian Children's Literature and Film
Global Theories and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Winner of the Children’s Literature Association Honor Book Award
This volume establishes a dialogue between East and West in children’s literature scholarship. In all cultures, children’s literature shows a concern to depict identity and individual development, so that character and theme...
by Fiona McCulloch
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
This book visits contemporary British children’s and young adult (YA) fiction alongside cosmopolitanism, exploring the notion of the nation within the context of globalization, transnationalism and citizenship. By resisting globalization’s dehumanizing conflation, cosmopolitanism offers an ethical,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
This volume visits death in children’s literature from around the world, making a substantial contribution to the dialogue between the expanding fields of Childhood Studies, Children’s Literature, and Death Studies. Considering both textual and pictorial representations of death, contributors...