Description: Astrid Lindgren, author of the famed Pippi Longstocking novels, is perhaps one of the most significant children's authors of the last half of the twentieth century. In this collect...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Astrid Lindgren, author of the famed Pippi Longstocking novels, is perhaps one of the most significant children's authors of the last half of the twentieth century. In this collect...
Author: Hall, Christine Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The result of a major national study, this book examines the changes in the last two decades in the reading habits of English children between the ages of ten and fourteen. Both quantitative and quali...
Author: Superle, Michelle Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Concurrent with increasing scholarly attention toward national children's literatures, Contemporary English-language Indian Children's Literature explores an emerging body of work that has thus far ga...
Author: Erlinda, Zabella Publisher: Global Publishers Canada Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Have you ever wondered why Filipinos migrate? The Philippines is blessed with magnificent natural wealth and beauty, yet ask a Filipino if he or she would like to migrate, and the answer will definite...
Author: N/A Publisher: Scarecrow Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Frances Hodgson Burnett gained famed not only as an author of social fictions and romances but also for writing the immensely popular children's novel Little Lord Fauntleroy. She seemed an unlikely ca...
Author: Manlove, Colin Publisher: Cybereditions Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 'The longer I live, the more I am convinced of the importance of children's books.' When Robert Bloomfield wrote this in 1817 he could have had no idea of the range of children's books to come, nor o...
Author: N/A Publisher: Psychology Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume shows how individuals overcome their biological, neural, and mental finitude to achieve sociality. It reveals how we take each other into account, coordinate our actions, and share ou...
Description: This collection examines the ways fictional heroism in the twenty-first century challenges the idealized forms of a somewhat simplistic masculinity associated with genres like the epic, romance and cl...
Author: Horne, Jackie C. Publisher: Ashgate Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Jackie C. Horne examines little-studied robinsonnades, historical novels, and didactic history books to show how changes in the writing of history for adults influenced the construction of child chara...
Description: Imagery for Pain Relief , the first book of its kind, familiarizes the reader with basic scientific information about pain and mental imagery and shows why imagery is a valuable tool for pain manageme...
Author: Pugh, Tison Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children's Literature examines distinguished classics of children's literature both old and new-including L. Frank Baum's Oz books, Laura Ingalls Wilde...
Author: Thacker, Deborah Cogan Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Focussing on the major literary movements from Romanticism to Postmodernism, Thacker and Webb examine the concerns of each period and the ways in which these concerns influence and are influenced by c...
Author: Semrik, Netanel Publisher: Contento De Semrik Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Jonathan in the Kingdom of Balloons by Netanel Semrik (translated by Denise Levin) is an enchanting story that helps children understand all the colors of their emotions, and teaches how to take respo...
Author: Ferrall, Charles / Jackson, Anna Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In this study, Charles Ferrall and Anna Jackson argue that the Victorians created a concept of adolescence that lasted into the twentieth century and yet is strikingly at odds with post-Second World W...
Author: Stirling, Kirsten Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is a literary analysis of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan in all its different versions -- key rewritings, dramatisations, prequels, and sequels -- and includes a synthesis of the main critical inte...
Description: This book is a literary analysis of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan in all its different versions -- key rewritings, dramatisations, prequels, and sequels -- and includes a synthesis of the main critical inte...
Author: Bacchilega, Cristina Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "An extraordinary book, and a 'first' on the topic. . . . Bacchilega has a remarkable capacity to reveal the intersections of folklore, literature, and film. Her interpretations of classical folk-tale...
Description: Francine Pascal's 'Sweet Valley High' series can be examined as a product of its literary and cultural environment, and viewed and re-viewed through the eyes of critics, its erstwhile readers, and con...
Description: 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 ass...
Author: Carpan, Carolyn Publisher: Scarecrow Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Girls series books have been popular since the early 1840s, when books about Cousin Lucy, a young girl who learns about the world around her, first appeared. Since then, scores of series books have fo...
Author: Carter, James Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Talking Books is a collection of monologues - reworked transcripts from in-depth interviews with some of the most important and influential of contemporary children's writers. Much is known and spoken...
Author: Mackey, Margaret Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Using the example of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" by Beatrix Potter to explore the impact of new media and technologies on how children learn about stories and reading, this book investigates nearly 100...
Author: Falconer, Rachel Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Highly recommended by Choice While crossover books such as Rowling's Harry Potter series have enjoyed enormous sales and media attention, critical analysis of crossover fiction has not kept pace with ...
Description: In this book, Blackford historicizes the appeal of the Persephone myth in the nineteenth century and traces figurations of Persephone, Demeter, and Hades throughout girls' literature of the nineteenth...
Author: Blackford, Holly Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this book, Blackford historicizes the appeal of the Persephone myth in the nineteenth century and traces figurations of Persephone, Demeter, and Hades throughout girls' literature of the nineteenth...
Author: Susina, Jan Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In this volume, Jan Susina examines the importance of Lewis Carroll and his popular Alice books to the field of children's literature. From a study of Carroll's juvenilia to contemporary multimedia ad...
Author: Maccann, Donnarae Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "White Supremacy in Children's Literature" is a compelling and penetrating study of the white supremacy myth in books for the young. Donnarae MacCann explores the intersection of child and adult cultu...
Author: Dauth, Freya Publisher: Balboa Press International Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A summer holiday at the beach for Zoe becomes a turning point in her life. A neglected child of divorced parents, she finds that she is really a worthwhile and confident person when given the care and...
Description: Astrid Lindgren, author of the famed Pippi Longstocking novels, is perhaps one of the most significant children's authors of the last half of the twentieth century. In this collect...
Description: Concurrent with increasing scholarly attention toward national children's literatures, Contemporary English-language Indian Children's Literature explores an emerging body of work that has thus far ga...
Author: Beckett, Sandra Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book situates the picturebook genre within the widespread international phenomenon of crossover literature, examining an international corpus of picturebooks - including artists' books, word...
Description: This book situates the picturebook genre within the widespread international phenomenon of crossover literature, examining an international corpus of picturebooks - including artists' books, word...
Description: This volume shows how individuals overcome their biological, neural, and mental finitude to achieve sociality. It reveals how we take each other into account, coordinate our actions, and share ou...
Author: Powell, Margaret Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the 1970s and 80s Japan experienced some deep-rooted social changes which affected attitudes to health care services among both professionals and consumers alike. Health Care in Japan provides an i...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Imagery for Pain Relief , the first book of its kind, familiarizes the reader with basic scientific information about pain and mental imagery and shows why imagery is a valuable tool for pain manageme...
Author: Pincus, David / Sheikh, Anees A. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Imagery for Pain Relief, the first book of its kind, familiarizes the reader with basic scientific information about pain and mental imagery and shows why imagery is a valuable tool for pain managemen...
Author: Pincus, David / Sheikh, Anees A. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Imagery for Pain Relief, the first book of its kind, familiarizes the reader with basic scientific information about pain and mental imagery and shows why imagery is a valuable tool for pain managemen...
Author: Ross-Stroud, Catherine Publisher: Scarecrow Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Much has been written about the state of Black adolescence-often from a sociological point of view situating Black teens in an at-risk category. However, through her characters, young adult author Jan...
Author: Rustin, Margaret / Rustin, Michael Publisher: Karnac Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: An important and perceptive contribution to the study of children's literature, this welcome reissue includes a new postscript exploring in detail the phenomenal success of J.K.Rowling's series of Har...
