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The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 930

The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-01-01
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

Provides articles covering children's literature from around the world as well as biographical and critical reviews of authors including Avi, C.S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling, and Anno Mitsumasa.

Shakespeare for Young People
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Shakespeare for Young People

The search to find engaging and inspiring ways to introduce children and young adults to Shakespeare has resulted in a wide variety of approaches to producing and adapting Shakespeare's plays and the stories and characters at their heart. This book explores the range of productions, versions, and adaptations of Shakespeare aimed particularly at children or young people. It is the only comprehensive overview of its kind, engaging with a range of genres - drama, prose narrative, television and film - and including both British and international examples. Abigail Rokison covers stage and screen productions, shortened versions, prose narratives and picture books (including Manga), animations and original novels, plays and films rewriting Shakespeare. The book combines an informative guide to the productions and adaptations discussed with critical analysis of their relative strengths. It also has a practical focus including quotes from directors, actors, writers, teachers and young people who worked on or experienced the projects discussed.

Using Nonfiction Trade Books in the Elementary Classroom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

Using Nonfiction Trade Books in the Elementary Classroom

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1992
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Intended primarily for classroom teachers, this book discusses the genre of nonfiction, the link between nonfiction and elementary curriculum, and specific ways to integrate nonfiction into the elementary classroom. The book's 16 essays and their authors are as follows: (1) "Fact or Fiction?" (Russell Freedman); (2) "The Evolution of a Science Writer" (Patricia Lauber); (3) "The Rise and Fall and Rise of Juvenile Nonfiction, 1961-1988" (James Cross Giblin); (4) "The Nonfiction Scene: What's Happening?" (Barbara Elleman); (5) "Trends and Evaluative Criteria of Informational Books for Children" (Frances Smardo Dowd); (6) "The Voice of Learning: Teacher, Child, and Text" (Bette Bosma); (7) "On ...

Stories of Heaven and Earth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Stories of Heaven and Earth

"Throughout, emphasis is placed on the power of these stories as a source of literature rich in universal themes: ethical dilemmas, decision-making, rites of passage, and emotional growth. Some of the best-known authors of children's literature are covered. Drawing on connections to familiar fairy tales, folklore, and mythology, especially through the work of Joseph Campbell and Bruno Bettelheim, Hara and Diane Person show how Bible stories offer children important models of the journey from childhood to adulthood, from dependence to independence. We see how these timeless stories retold allow children to imagine the possibility of becoming the heroes of their own lives."--BOOK JACKET.

Nonfiction Matters
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 249

Nonfiction Matters

A guide to bringing nonfiction into the curriculum in third through eighth-grade classrooms, with strategies and ideas for reading nonfiction, conducting research, and writing reports.

What Do We Tell the Children? Critical Essays on Children’s Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 220

What Do We Tell the Children? Critical Essays on Children’s Literature

This peer-reviewed collection of critical essays on children’s literature addresses contemporary debates regarding what constitutes “suitable” texts for young audiences. The volume examines what adult writers “tell” their child readers with particular focus on the following areas: the representation of sexuality, gender and the body; the treatment of death and trauma; concepts of race, prejudice and national identity; and the use of children’s literature as a tool for socializing, acculturating, politicizing and educating children. The focus of the collection is on Irish and international fiction addressed at readers from mid-childhood to young adulthood. One section of the book ...

Language Arts Mini-lessons
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 166

Language Arts Mini-lessons

Step-by-Step Skill-Builders for Your Classroom. make reading and writing more meaningful to children, with author studies! This photo-filled guide supports you through every step in the process: choosing author, nurturing independent readers, celebrating writers with innovative projects, setting up author visits, assessment, and more.

Adapting Canonical Texts in Children's Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

Adapting Canonical Texts in Children's Literature

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-04-14
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

Collection analysing the intercultural communication and adaptation of Anglophone children's literature in Europe, across generations and borders.

Children’s Literature and Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 220

Children’s Literature and Culture

This collection of scholarship on the world of the child offers an eclectic overview of several aspects of youth culture today. The first essay focuses on Donna Williams, Joanna Greenberg, Temple Grandin and other children whose unusual minds raise questions that take us deep into the mysteries of all of human existence. The second, “Colonel Mustard in the Library With The Sims: From Board Games to Video Games and Back,” gives a historical context and theoretical frame for considering contemporary video and board games in our current age of television The third, “Just a Fairy, His Wits, and Maybe a Touch of Magic; Magic, Technology, and Self-Reliance in Contemporary Fantasy Fiction,”...

英国经典文学作品的儿童文学改编研究
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 239

英国经典文学作品的儿童文学改编研究

本书以英国经典文学作品的儿童文学改编为研究对象,横跨18世纪到20世纪的历史维度,细究儿童版对小说文体和叙事策略方面的改编,并从历时角度挖掘文本改编的社会因素,揭示经典作品的儿童文学改编风貌和社会文化动因。