Children category: 1253 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
This volume examines a variety of utopian writing for children from the 18th century to the present day, defining and exploring this new genre in the field of children's literature. The original essays discuss thematic conventions and present detailed case studies of individual works. All address...
Reading the Child in Children's Literature
An Heretical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
David Rudd takes a lively and controversial look at the critical representation of the child in children's literature, arguing for a more open and eclectic approach: one that celebrates the diverse power, appeal and possibilities of children's literature. Drawing on psychoanalytically informed perspectives,...
Complete Writing For Children Course
Develop your children's writing from idea to publication
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Designed to take you from the moment you first put pen to paper to the point at which you are ready to start contacting publishers (or uploading an ebook file), this is the most important book on writing children's books you'll ever read. It introduces you to the craft of writing for children, the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2006
Edited by Peter Hunt, a leading figure in the field, this book introduces the study of children’s literature, addressing theoretical questions as well as the most relevant critical approaches to the discipline.
The fourteen chapters draw on insights from academic disciplines ranging from...
by Dr Debbie Pullinger
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
The connection between childhood and poetry runs deep. And yet, poetry written for children has been neglected by criticism and resists prevailing theories of children's literature. Drawing on Walter Ong's theory of orality and on Iain McGilChrist's work on brain function, this book develops a new...
Representing Agency in Popular Culture
Children and Youth on Page, Screen, and In Between
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
Representing Agency in Popular Culture: Children and Youth on Page, Screen and In-Between addresses the intersection of children’s and youth’s agency and popular culture. As scholars in childhood studies and beyond seek to expand understandings of agency, power, and voice in children’s lives,...
Into the Closet
Cross-Dressing and the Gendered Body in Children's Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Into the Closet examines the representation of cross-dressing in a wide variety of children’s fiction, ranging from picture books and junior fiction to teen films and novels for young adults. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the different types of cross-dressing found in children’s narratives,...
Home Words
Discourses of Children’s Literature in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
The essays in Home Words explore the complexity of the idea of home through various theoretical lenses and groupings of texts. One focus of this collection is the relation between the discourses of nation, which often represent the nation as home, and the discourses of home in children’s literature,...
The Lost Bear
Lost Bear series, #1
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2014
The Lost Bear is a series of children's books which educate and entertain children aged four and above about different travel destinations. In the first book, 'The Lost Bear in London', the bear gets lost and consequently learns about life in the big city of London. The Lost Bear explores the...
An Introduction to computers for Children - Ages 5 to 8 years
Children's Computer Training, #1
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2014
This book entails a full colour animated story-line that is intended to teach children (between the ages of 5 to 8) the fundamental aspects of computers. It is intended to serve as the foundation module by which children would be able to grasp and understand all of the assembly and functional aspects of a computer system.
Children's Fiction about 9/11
Ethnic, National and Heroic Identities
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
In this pioneering and timely book, Lampert examines the ways in which cultural identities are constructed within young adult and children’s literature about the attacks of September 11, 2001. Looking at examples including picture books, young adult novels, and a selection of DC Comics, Lampert...
Indians in Victorian Children’s Narratives
Animalizing the Native, 1830-1930
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
The genesis of the history of British colonization in India is often traced to traders, merchants, and the formation of the British East India Company. While this is indisputable, what is ignored is the creation and perpetual fueling of the steady stream of British officers into the Indian economy...
by Professor Karen Coats
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
From Maria Edgeworth, Dr Seuss and Lewis Carroll to Sherman Alexie, Sharon Flake, and Gene Luen Yang, this is a comprehensive introduction to studying the infinitely varied worlds of literature for children and young adults.
Exploring a diverse range of writing, The Bloomsbury Introduction...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
The essays in this collection address the relationship between children and cultural memory in texts both for and about young people. The collection overall is concerned with how cultural memory is shaped, contested, forgotten, recovered, and (re)circulated, sometimes in opposition to dominant national...