By Victor Watson
ISBN-10: 0521550645
ISBN-13: 9780521550642
The Cambridge advisor to kid's Books is an alphabetized reference paintings delivering a severe and appreciative evaluate of kid's books written in English all over the world. it isn't a advisor to "children's literature" yet has a much wider task--to contain any writer, or illustrator, or paintings, believed via the editors to have made an important effect on younger readers, or to have in a roundabout way prompted the advance of kid's books. as well as the original traditions of kid's writing from nice Britain and america, the advisor covers the expanding variety of profitable kid's books produced in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, West Africa, and India; and the fascinating renaissance in kid's books at the moment occurring in eire and South Africa. Reflecting the constructing scholarly appreciation for the historical past of kid's books, The advisor offers due weight to kid's books from pre-Norman instances, and recognizes contemporary advancements in publishing practices and in kid's personal interpreting. Victor Watson is Assistant Director of analysis, Homerton university, collage of Cambridge. He has edited a number of volumes approximately kid's literature, together with starting the Nursery Door (Routledge, 1997) and the place Texts and youngsters Meet (Routledge, 2000).
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JAG Andrews, Jane 1833—87 American author of instructive fiction. Forced by illness to abandon college teaching, Andrews started her own school; her integrative approach to education inspired several experimental children’s books. The Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats in the Air (1861) not only found a (much-imitated) way to teach geography through visits to imaginary children, but was one of the earliest attempts to further inter-cultural understanding through children’s literature.
The book is informed by a consciousness of the environment and a desire to bring the child closer to it. Continuing these concerns, Born to Lead (1994) is the saga of a tiger cub in a jungle destroyed by man. Impossible? Tales of the Unknown (1996) and School Soup (1996) are two books for teenagers narrated with warmth and wit to alleviate the loneliness of the adolescent reader. She has also written Superzero (1996), a collection of witty, thought-provoking stories for younger children. MBh Anastasia Krupnik series A series of nine humorous children’s novels by Lois Lowry.
DS dote to Peter Pan’, which would ‘show what a play for children should be like . . ’ In practice Shaw’s comedy of Christian martyrdoms in the Roman amphitheatre has never seriously challenged Peter Pan in popularity. Some comic incongruities work well, notably the reluctant bravery of timid Androcles, and the triumph of violence over Christian pacifism in the Samson-like Ferovius, but Shaw cannot resist a vein of intellectual satire which children are liable to find tedious and perplexing. 1821) Probably by Richard Scrafton Sharpe, a London grocer who tried to keep his authorship a secret.
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