Children's Literature Association Quarterly
Title | Children's Literature Association Quarterly PDF eBook |
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After the First Death
Title | After the First Death PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Cormier |
Publisher | Laurel Leaf |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 1991-02-01 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0440208351 |
Who will be the next to die? They've taken the children. And the son of a general. But that isn't enough. More horrors must come...
Prizing Children's Literature
Title | Prizing Children's Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth B. Kidd |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 2016-11-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317231422 |
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 book awards, scholars have paid relatively little attention to them. This book is the first scholarly volume devoted to the analysis of Anglophone children's book awards in historical and cultural context. With attention to both political and aesthetic concerns, the book offers original and diverse scholarship on prizing practices and their consequences in Australia, Canada, and especially the United States. Contributors offer both case studies of particular awards and analysis of broader trends in literary evaluation and elevation, drawing on theoretical work on canonization and cultural capital. Sections interrogate the complex and often unconscious ideological work of prizing, the ongoing tension between formalist awards and so-called identity-based awards — all the more urgent in light of the "We Need Diverse Books" campaign — the ever-morphing forms and parameters of prizing, and scholarly practices of prizing. Among the many awards discussed are the Pura Belpré Medal, the Inky Awards, the Canada Governor General Literary Award, the Printz Award, the Best Animated Feature Oscar, the Phoenix Award, and the John Newbery Medal, giving due attention to prizes for fiction as well as for non-fiction, poetry, and film. This volume will interest scholars in literary and cultural studies, social history, book history, sociology, education, library and information science, and anyone concerned with children's literature.
Children's Literature Association Quarterly
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Pages | 268 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Children's literature |
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Peter's Chair
Title | Peter's Chair PDF eBook |
Author | Ezra Jack Keats |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 42 |
Release | 1998-08-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0698165594 |
From the Caldecott Medal-winning author of The Snowy Day, Ezra Jack Keats, Peter's Chair is a picture book classic about a sibling rivalry. Peter, the hero of many of Ezra Jack Keats' award-winning books, has a new baby sister. When she arrives, his parents paint his old baby furniture pink for the new baby. There's only one thing they haven't painted yet, though: his little blue chair. He'll do whatever it takes to save it—even run away! This is a gentle and reassuring story about sibling rivalry and a perfect gift for any family expecting a new baby.
Literature For Children
Title | Literature For Children PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Hunt |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2003-09-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1134916272 |
Children's literature has recently produced a body of criticism with a highly distinctive voice. The book consolidates understanding of this area by including some of the most important essays published in the field in the last five years, demonstrating the links between literary criticism, education, psychology, history and scientific theory. It includes Peter Hollindale's award- winning essay on Ideology and Children's Literature, topics from metafiction and post-modernism to fractal geometry, and the examination of texts ranging from picture books to The Wizard of Oz and the the Australian classic Midnite . Sources are as disparate as Signal and the Children's Literature Association Quarterly , and the international community is represented by writers from Britain, the USA, Canada, Australia and Germany. Each essay is set in its critical context by extensive quotation from authoritative articles.
History and the Construction of the Child in Early British Children's Literature
Title | History and the Construction of the Child in Early British Children's Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Jackie C. Horne |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2016-04-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317121694 |
How did the 'flat' characters of eighteenth-century children's literature become 'round' by the mid-nineteenth? While previous critics have pointed to literary Romanticism for an explanation, Jackie C. Horne argues that this shift can be better understood by looking to the discipline of history. Eighteenth-century humanism believed the purpose of history was to teach private and public virtue by creating idealized readers to emulate. Eighteenth-century children's literature, with its impossibly perfect protagonists (and its equally imperfect villains) echoes history's exemplar goals. Exemplar history, however, came under increasing pressure during the period, and the resulting changes in historiographical practice - an increased need for reader engagement and the widening of history's purview to include the morals, manners, and material lives of everyday people - find their mirror in changes in fiction for children. Horne situates hitherto neglected Robinsonades, historical novels, and fictionalized histories within the cultural, social, and political contexts of the period to trace the ways in which idealized characters gradually gave way to protagonists who fostered readers' sympathetic engagement. Horne's study will be of interest to specialists in children's literature, the history of education, and book history.