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Children Of The 1940s
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Download or read book A 1940s Childhood written by James Marsh and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you remember collecting shrapnel and listening to Children’s Hour? Carrying gas masks or sharing your school with evacuees from the city? The 1940s was a time of great challenge for everyone who lived through it. From the hardships and fear of a World War, with Britain’s towns and cities were being bombed on an almost nightly basis, to the trauma of being parted from ones parents and sent away to the country to live with complete strangers. For just over half of this decade the war continued, meaning food and clothing shortages became a way of life. But through it all, and afterwards, the simplicity of kids shone through. From collecting bits of shot down German aircraft to playing in bomb-strewn streets, kids made their own fun. Then there was the joy of the second half of this decade when fathers came home and fun things started up again. This trip down memory lane will take you through the most memorable and evocative experiences of growing up in the 1940s.
Book Synopsis The Family Nobody Wanted by : Helen Doss
Download or read book The Family Nobody Wanted written by Helen Doss and published by Northeastern University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doss's charming, touching, and at times hilarious chronicle tells how each of the children, representing white, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Mexican, and Native American backgrounds, came to her and husband Carl, a Methodist minister. She writes of the way the "unwanted" feeling was erased with devoted love and understanding and how the children united into one happy family. Her account reads like a novel, with scenes of hard times and triumphs described in vivid prose. The Family Nobody Wanted, which inspired two films, opened doors for other adoptive families and was a popular favorite among parents, young adults, and children for more than thirty years. Now this edition will introduce the classic to a new generation of readers. An epilogue by Helen Doss that updates the family's progress since 1954 will delight the book's loyal legion of fans around the world.
Book Synopsis Children of the 1940s by : Mike Hutton
Download or read book Children of the 1940s written by Mike Hutton and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was it really like growing up in the 1940s? There are tales of being dragged from bombed out homes and of watching dog fights in the skies above. Of evacuation and a clash of cultures between city centre kids and their country cousins. All endured strict discipline at school and a shortage of food due to stringent rationing. Bomb sites provided ready made adventure playgrounds. Pleasures were simple with a weekly pilgrimage to the local cinema for Saturday morning pictures. Sales of comics boomed and Enid Blyton churned out countless books generally loved by the young. The arrival of the Americans caused a flutter of excitement for children and quite a few of their elder sisters and mums too. Just when it appeared it was all over there was a new threat as buzz bombs brought fear and devastation. Eventually there was a brief moment of celebration with VE Day followed by a massive victory parade. Austerity continued to gnaw away, not helped by cold winters with frost lining the inside of window frames. Returning fathers were often unwanted strangers while some returning were confronted with babies fathered by other men. There was much to be sorted out. Mike Hutton takes you back to a different world. One where streets offered live theatre populated by knife grinders, rat catchers and the cries of the rag and bone man. The skinny army of the 1940s are old now but their stories live on. Some are desperately sad, all warmly nostalgic while others are quite hilarious.
Book Synopsis Children's Literature: A Very Short Introduction by : Kimberley Reynolds
Download or read book Children's Literature: A Very Short Introduction written by Kimberley Reynolds and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children's literature takes many forms - works adapted for children in antiquity, picture books and pop-ups - and now includes the latest online games and eBooks. This vast and amorphous subject is both intimately related to other areas of literary and cultural investigation but also has its own set of concerns, issues and challenges. From familiar authors including Beatrix Potter and Roald Dahl, classic books such as Pooh, Alice in Wonderland, and The Secret Garden, to modern works including Harry Potter and the Twilight series, thisVery Short Introduction provides an overview of the history of children's literature as it has developed in English, whilst at the same time introducing key debates, developments, and figures in the field. Raising questions about what shape the future of literature for children should take, and exploring the crossover with adult fiction, Reynolds shows that writing for children - whether on page or screen - has participated in shaping and directing ideas about culture, society and childhood. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Book Synopsis Born in the 40s by : Tim Glynne-Jones
Download or read book Born in the 40s written by Tim Glynne-Jones and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a stroll down Memory Lane with this wonderful collection of photographs of Britain in the 1940s, which evokes those Happy Days when everyone pulled together to defeat Hitler and kept smiling despite the hardship of the post-war years.
Book Synopsis Life in 1940s London by : Mike Hutton
Download or read book Life in 1940s London written by Mike Hutton and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a turbulent decade for our iconic capital
Book Synopsis The Man Who Loved Children by : Christina Stead
Download or read book The Man Who Loved Children written by Christina Stead and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This crazy, gorgeous family novel” written at the end of the Great Depression “is one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century” (Jonathan Franzen, The New York Times). First published in 1940, The Man Who Loved Children was rediscovered in 1965 thanks to the poet Randall Jarrell’s eloquent introduction (included in this ebook edition), which compares Christina Stead to Leo Tolstoy. Today, it stands as a masterpiece of dysfunctional family life. In a country crippled by the Great Depression, Sam and Henny Pollit have too much—too much contempt for one another, too many children, too much strain under endless obligation. Flush with ego and chilling charisma, Sam torments and manipulates his children in an esoteric world of his own imagining. Henny looks on desperately, all too aware of the madness at the root of her husband’s behavior. And Louie, the damaged, precocious adolescent girl at the center of their clashes, is the “ugly duckling” whose struggle will transfix contemporary readers. Named one of the best novels of the twentieth century by Newsweek, Stead’s semiautobiographical work reads like a Depression-era The Glass Castle. In the New York Times, Jonathan Franzen wrote of this classic, “I carry it in my head the way I carry childhood memories; the scenes are of such precise horror and comedy that I feel I didn’t read the book so much as live it.”
Book Synopsis American Culture in the 1940s by : Jacqueline Foertsch
Download or read book American Culture in the 1940s written by Jacqueline Foertsch and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-27 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the major cultural forms of 1940s America - fiction and non-fiction; music and radio; film and theatre; serious and popular visual arts - and key texts, trends and figures, from Native Son to Citizen Kane, from Hiroshima to HUAC, and from Dr Seuss to Bob Hope. After discussing the dominant ideas that inform the 1940s the book culminates with a chapter on the 'culture of war'. Rather than splitting the decade at 1945, Jacqueline Foertsch argues persuasively that the 1940s should be taken as a whole, seeking out links between wartime and postwar American culture.
Download or read book The 1940s House written by Juliet Gardner and published by Channel 4 Book. This book was released on 2002 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty-five years after the end of the Second World War, the Hymers family moved into a 1940s house in Kent under the skies where the Battle of Britain was fought. The family experienced many different aspects of life on the home front. Juliet Gardiner draws on the letters and diaries of many home front veterans as well as the experiences of the Hymer family to create a unique insight into life in Britain during the Second World War.
Book Synopsis American Family of the 1990s Paper Dolls by : Tom Tierney
Download or read book American Family of the 1990s Paper Dolls written by Tom Tierney and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2003-04-14 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dress 8 dolls in 24 great outfits, among them flared slacks, a cartoon sweatshirt, a summer dress over matching cotton shorts, cut-off jeans, and a classic wedding dress.
Book Synopsis Seeing Life in the 1940s & 50s through the eyes of a Nebraska Child by : Darlene Hill
Download or read book Seeing Life in the 1940s & 50s through the eyes of a Nebraska Child written by Darlene Hill and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-07 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written by a great-grandma who wants to leave to her children the memories she has of her childhood. The book tells about the house she was born in, the church she attended, and the school she went to. It also tells about how the house was heated, how the laundry was done, growing a garden so there would be food through the winter, and living through the blizzard of 1948 and '49. She also tells about how her great-grandpa settled in Greeley County and how he built his farm
Download or read book Helluva Town written by and published by powerHouse Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of World War II New York City went through a period of transformation - loved ones were reunited and babies were born into a new era. African American soldiers who fought in the name of democracy demanded equal rights at home. Women left the factories and returned to the domestic front to raise children and cater to their husbands. Vivian Cherry charts this period with lively vignettes full of compassion and gritty street scenes exuding social conciousness.
Book Synopsis The Innocents at Home-Children of the 1940s by : Mary Stone
Download or read book The Innocents at Home-Children of the 1940s written by Mary Stone and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the 1940s. Children were to be seen and not heard. Until now. Here are their stories of war, internment, polio, tuberculosis, loss, bullying, prejudice, faith, love, resiliency, overcoming, and normalcy amid the abnormality of childhood during this decade. While the characters and narratives are fictional, all accounts are inspired by actual circumstances and events of the 1940s. These stories told through the eyes of children living in the United States, Poland, Germany, and France culminate in a multicultural anthology. Nicolette discovers evidence of a British soldier living in her French mansion's attic. Junior writes letters to his dad stationed at Pearl Harbor. Casimer hides from Nazis in a Polish cave with his family for many months. Addie falls in love with a German POW working on her father's farm. Nora contracts polio and fights for freedom to soar above the pain and confinement. And more children tell their stories . . . Here are the Innocents at Home. Hear their stories. Hear their voices. Lovers of historical fiction, Baby Boomers, and high school English and History classes will be drawn into the characters' lives and back into the 1940s. Offering an extensive Discussion Guide at the end of the book, this historical fiction collection promises to be a great book club pick.
Book Synopsis The 1940s from World War II to Jackie Robinson by : Stephen Feinstein
Download or read book The 1940s from World War II to Jackie Robinson written by Stephen Feinstein and published by Enslow Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the 1940s, including the triumphs, tragedies, fads, and fashions of the decade.
Download or read book Space Witch written by Don Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tilly Ipswitch, Queen of Halloween, decides to spend Halloween frightening creatures on other planets.
Download or read book Peepo! written by Janet Ahlberg and published by . This book was released on 1985-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each page gives a different glimpse of a baby's day, as the adults in his world go about their obscure yet urgent tasks. The initial view of each full-page illustration is through a peep-hole in the centre of the page. A rhyming text describes the picture, and asks "what does he see?"
Author :Benjamin Spock Publisher :Markham, Ont. : Simon & Schuster of Canada ISBN 13 :9780671804923 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (49 download)
Book Synopsis Baby and Child Care by : Benjamin Spock
Download or read book Baby and Child Care written by Benjamin Spock and published by Markham, Ont. : Simon & Schuster of Canada. This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
