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Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Children's Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop's fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from Where the Wild Things Are to Harry Potter. Seth Lerer here explores the iconic books, ancient and contemporary alike, that have forged a lifelong love of literature in young readers during their formative years. Along the way, Lerer also looks at the changing environments of family...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Lexile measure
1290L
Language
English
Description
Bruce Handy revisits the classics of every American childhood, from fairy tales to The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and explores the back stories of their creators, using context and biography to understand how some of the most creative authors and illustrators of their times created their often deeply personal masterpieces. Along the way, Handy learns what The Cat in the Hat says about anarchy and absentee parenting, which themes are shared by The Runaway...
12) Children & books
Author
Publisher
Longman
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Emphasizes major authors and artists with criteria for each genre, and focuses on new books, new ideas and interests.
Series
Children's literature annual volume no. 3
Publisher
University of Hertfordshire Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Series
Children's literature and culture volume 87
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"This book offers new critical approaches for the study of adaptations, abridgments, translations, parodies, and mash-ups that occur internationally in contemporary children's culture. It follows recent shifts in adaptation studies that call for a move beyond fidelity criticism, a paradigm that measures the success of an adaptation by the level of fidelity to the "original" text, toward a methodology that considers the adaptation to be always already...
Author
Series
Children's literature and culture volume 69
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
20) A sneetch is a sneetch and other philosophical discoveries: finding wisdom in children's literature
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats