Landscape in Children's Literature

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136321179
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Book Synopsis Landscape in Children's Literature by : Jane Suzanne Carroll

Download or read book Landscape in Children's Literature written by Jane Suzanne Carroll and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a new critical methodology for the study of landscapes in children's literature. Treating landscape as the integration of unchanging and irreducible physical elements, or topoi, Carroll identifies and analyses four kinds of space — sacred spaces, green spaces, roadways, and lapsed spaces — that are the component elements of the physical environments of canonical British children’s fantasy. Using Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising Sequence as the test-case for this methodology, the book traces the development of the physical features and symbolic functions of landscape topoi from their earliest inception in medieval vernacular texts through to contemporary children's literature. The identification and analysis of landscape topoi synthesizes recent theories about interstitial space together with earlier morphological and topoanalytical studies, enabling the study of fictional landscapes in terms of their physical characteristics as well as in terms of their relationship with contemporary texts and historical precedents. Ultimately, by providing topoanalytical studies of other children’s texts, Carroll proposes topoanalysis as a rich critical method for the study and understanding of children’s literature and indicates how the findings of this approach may be expanded upon. In offering both transferable methodologies and detailed case-studies, this book outlines a new approach to literary landscapes as geographical places within socio-historical contexts.

A Landscape with Dragons

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Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1681490129
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (814 download)

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Book Synopsis A Landscape with Dragons by : Michael D. O'Brien

Download or read book A Landscape with Dragons written by Michael D. O'Brien and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Harry Potter series of books and movies are wildly popular. Many Christians see the books as largely if not entirely harmless. Others regard them as dangerous and misleading. In his book A Landscape with Dragons, Harry Potter critic Michael O'Brien examines contemporary children's literature and finds it spiritually and morally wanting. His analysis, written before the rise of the popular Potter books and films, anticipates many of the problems Harry Potter critics point to. A Landscape with Dragons is a controversial, yet thoughtful study of what millions of young people are reading and the possible impact such reading may have on them. In this study of the pagan invasion of children's culture, O'Brien, the father of six, describes his own coming to terms with the effect it has had on his family and on most families in Western society. His analysis of the degeneration of books, films, and videos for the young is incisive and detailed. Yet his approach is not simply critical, for he suggests a number of remedies, including several tools of discernment for parents and teachers in assessing the moral content and spiritual impact of this insidious revolution. In doing so, he points the way to rediscovery of time-tested sources, and to new developments in Christian culture. If you have ever wondered why a certain children's book or film made you feel uneasy, but you couldn't figure out why, this book is just what you need. This completely revised, much expanded second edition also includes a very substantial recommended reading list of over 1,000 books for kindergarten through highschool.

Landscape and Literature

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521729823
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Book Synopsis Landscape and Literature by : Stephen Siddall

Download or read book Landscape and Literature written by Stephen Siddall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-21 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. Landscape and Literature introduces students to the exploration of different ways in which landscape has been represented in literature. It focuses on key aspects of this topic such as the importance of pastoral, contrasts between city and country, eighteenth-century developments from neo-classical to picturesque and Romantic ideas of the sublime, regional novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and varied styles of twentieth-century poetry from the Georgian poets to Heaney and Hughes. Poems and prose extracts from writers such as Marvell, Wordsworth, George Eliot, Hardy, Lawrence and Seamus Heaney are included.

Space and Place in Children’s Literature, 1789 to the Present

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317052021
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Space and Place in Children’s Literature, 1789 to the Present by : Maria Sachiko Cecire

Download or read book Space and Place in Children’s Literature, 1789 to the Present written by Maria Sachiko Cecire and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on questions of space and locale in children’s literature, this collection explores how metaphorical and physical space can create landscapes of power, knowledge, and identity in texts from the early nineteenth century to the present. The collection is comprised of four sections that take up the space between children and adults, the representation of 'real world' places, fantasy travel and locales, and the physical space of the children’s book-as-object. In their essays, the contributors analyze works from a range of sources and traditions by authors such as Sylvia Plath, Maria Edgeworth, Gloria Anzaldúa, Jenny Robson, C.S. Lewis, Elizabeth Knox, and Claude Ponti. While maintaining a focus on how location and spatiality aid in defining the child’s relationship to the world, the essays also address themes of borders, displacement, diaspora, exile, fantasy, gender, history, home-leaving and homecoming, hybridity, mapping, and metatextuality. With an epilogue by Philip Pullman in which he discusses his own relationship to image and locale, this collection is also a valuable resource for understanding the work of this celebrated author of children’s literature.

Four British Fantasists

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Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 1461658705
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Book Synopsis Four British Fantasists by : Charles Butler

Download or read book Four British Fantasists written by Charles Butler and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2006-04-25 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four British Fantasists explores the work of four of the most successful and influential of the generation of fantasy writes who rose to prominence in the "second Golden Age" of children's literature in Britain: Susan Cooper, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Penelope Lively.

Exploring Landscape Art with Children

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Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0934738955
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (347 download)

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Book Synopsis Exploring Landscape Art with Children by : Gladys S. Blizzard

Download or read book Exploring Landscape Art with Children written by Gladys S. Blizzard and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1996-04-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In COME LOOK WITH ME: EXPLORING LANDSCAPE ART WITH CHILDREN art educator Gladys S. Blizzard introduces boys and girls to 12 magnificent landscape paintings. Through these carefully selected works and a thought-provoking text, the author guides students toward an imaginative new way of looking at art. This book is suited both for family reading and for sharing with a small group. Each full-color reproduction is accompanied by a brief biological sketch of the artist and a series of open-ended questions designed to make the most of a child's natural curiosity.

Picturing the Wolf in Children's Literature

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415801176
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (158 download)

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Book Synopsis Picturing the Wolf in Children's Literature by : Debra Mitts Smith

Download or read book Picturing the Wolf in Children's Literature written by Debra Mitts Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wolf has long been a part of the landscape of children's literature. Mitts-Smith analyzes visual images of the wolf in children's books published in Western Europe and North America from 1500 to the present.

Girl in Landscape

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307791777
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Book Synopsis Girl in Landscape by : Jonathan Lethem

Download or read book Girl in Landscape written by Jonathan Lethem and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Girl in Landscape is a daring exploration of the violent nature of sexual awakening, a meditation on language and perception, and an homage to the great American tradition of the Western. • "Jonathan Lethem's imagination [is]...marvelously fertile." --Newsday The heroine is young Pella Marsh, whose mother dies just before her family flees a post-apocalyptic Brooklyn for the frontier of a recently discovered planet. Hating her ineffectual father, and troubled by a powerful attraction to a virile but dangerous loner who holds sway over the little colony, Pella sets out on a course of discovery that will have tragic and irrevocable consequences for the humans in the community and the ancient inhabitants, known only as archbuilders. Girl in Landscape finds Jonathan Lethem twisting forms and literary conventions to create a dazzling, completely unconventional tale.

Maps and Mapping in Children's Literature

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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027265461
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Maps and Mapping in Children's Literature by : Nina Goga

Download or read book Maps and Mapping in Children's Literature written by Nina Goga and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maps and Mapping in Children’s Literature is the first comprehensive study that investigates the representation of maps in children’s books as well as the impact of mapping on the depiction of landscapes, seascapes, and cityscapes in children’s literature. The chapters in this volume pursue a comparative approach as they represent a wide spectrum of diverse genres and national children’s literatures by examining a wealth of children’s books from Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Norway, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the USA. The theoretical and methodological approaches range from literary studies, developmental psychology, maps and geography literacy, ecocriticism, historical contextualization with both new historicist and political-historical leanings, and intermediality to materialist cartographies, cultural studies, island studies, and genre studies. By this, this volume aims at embedding children’s literature in a broader field of literary and cultural studies, thus situating children’s literature research within a general context of literary theory.

Over and Under the Snow

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Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452123985
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)

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Book Synopsis Over and Under the Snow by : Kate Messner

Download or read book Over and Under the Snow written by Kate Messner and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2012-12-07 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the snow, the world is hushed and white. But under the snow exists a secret kingdom of squirrels and snow hares, bears and bullfrogs, and many other animals that live through the winter safe and warm, awake and busy, under the snow. Discover the wonder and activity that lies beneath winter s snowy landscape in this magical book.

The Children's Book Business

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136841970
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Book Synopsis The Children's Book Business by : Lissa Paul

Download or read book The Children's Book Business written by Lissa Paul and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By focusing on the children's book business of the long eighteenth-century, €this book€argues that the thinking, knowing children of the Enlightenment are models for the technologically-connected, socially-conscious children of the twenty-first. The increasingly obsolete images of Romantic innocent and ignorant children are bracketed between the two periods.

The Mysteries of Life in Children's Literature

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Publisher : TAN Books
ISBN 13 : 1618906739
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (189 download)

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Book Synopsis The Mysteries of Life in Children's Literature by : Mitchell Kalpakgian

Download or read book The Mysteries of Life in Children's Literature written by Mitchell Kalpakgian and published by TAN Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FAIRY TALES AND MYTHS have enriched childhood for centuries. In between “Once upon a time” and “happily ever after” we embark on adventures that seem an eternity away from our everyday lives. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. In The Mysteries of Life in Children’s Literature, journey through a treasury of beloved fables and folk tales and discover the wisdom hiding within. In an age that rejects moral absolutes, children’s literature restores the meaning of good and evil, beautiful and ugly, normal and abnormal—and helps us see the nature of our world more clearly than we ever have before.

My Monster Moofy

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Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0884488039
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (844 download)

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Book Synopsis My Monster Moofy by : Annie Watson

Download or read book My Monster Moofy written by Annie Watson and published by Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s a monster under my bed who changes like a chameleon. He can be motionless like a rock with a tail, or he can strike with blinding speed, like a lightning bolt with claws. My monster’s name is Moofy. His ears are as pointy as tortilla chips. His tongue is as pink as bubblegum, and his teeth are as sharp as swords. By day, Moofy is a fur rug in the sunshine. By night, he’s a pair of glowing headlights in the darkness. With those opening lines, we’ve already encountered similes using like, similes using as, and metaphors. Personifications, idioms, hyperboles, allusions, and much more lie ahead. But this isn’t a writing guide, it’s a picture book story about a little monster who oozes personality. The first pages leave us guessing, but kids will soon figure out, to their delight, that Moofy’s a cat. And what else could this furball of mischief be? Fun is the order of the day, but an unobtrusive banner on each page lets interested readers know which figure of speech is being featured. This is a book a young reader and future writer can grow with.

All Aboard! California

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Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 1423640802
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (236 download)

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Book Synopsis All Aboard! California by : Haily Meyers

Download or read book All Aboard! California written by Haily Meyers and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2015-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every area of the world can be mapped out for adventure, and brilliant babies love the sophistication of traveling by train.

Children's Literature

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226473023
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Book Synopsis Children's Literature by : Seth Lerer

Download or read book Children's Literature written by Seth Lerer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children’s literature. Children’s Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop’s fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from Where the Wild Things Are to Harry Potter. The only single-volume work to capture the rich and diverse history of children’s literature in its full panorama, this extraordinary book reveals why J. R. R. Tolkien, Dr. Seuss, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Beatrix Potter, and many others, despite their divergent styles and subject matter, have all resonated with generations of readers. Children’s Literature is an exhilarating quest across centuries, continents, and genres to discover how, and why, we first fall in love with the written word. “Lerer has accomplished something magical. Unlike the many handbooks to children’s literature that synopsize, evaluate, or otherwise guide adults in the selection of materials for children, this work presents a true critical history of the genre. . . . Scholarly, erudite, and all but exhaustive, it is also entertaining and accessible. Lerer takes his subject seriously without making it dull.”—Library Journal (starred review) “Lerer’s history reminds us of the wealth of literature written during the past 2,600 years. . . . With his vast and multidimensional knowledge of literature, he underscores the vital role it plays in forming a child’s imagination. We are made, he suggests, by the books we read.”—San Francisco Chronicle “There are dazzling chapters on John Locke and Empire, and nonsense, and Darwin, but Lerer’s most interesting chapter focuses on girls’ fiction. . . . A brilliant series of readings.”—Diane Purkiss, Times Literary Supplement

Of Thee I Sing

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Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0375983295
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (759 download)

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Book Synopsis Of Thee I Sing by : Barack Obama

Download or read book Of Thee I Sing written by Barack Obama and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barack Obama delivers a tender, beautiful letter to his daughters in this powerful picture book illustrated by award-winner Loren Long that's made to be treasured! In this poignant letter to his daughters, Barack Obama has written a moving tribute to thirteen groundbreaking Americans and the ideals that have shaped our nation. From the artistry of Georgia O'Keeffe, to the courage of Jackie Robinson, to the patriotism of George Washington, Obama sees the traits of these heroes within his own children, and within all of America’s children. Breathtaking, evocative illustrations by award-winning artist Loren Long at once capture the personalities and achievements of these great Americans and the innocence and promise of childhood. This beautiful book celebrates the characteristics that unite all Americans, from our nation’s founders to generations to come. It is about the potential within each of us to pursue our dreams and forge our own paths. It is a treasure to cherish with your family forever.

Signs Along the River

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ISBN 13 : 9780911797220
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (972 download)

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Book Synopsis Signs Along the River by : Kayo Robertson

Download or read book Signs Along the River written by Kayo Robertson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells how to sense the presence of several common types of plants, mammals, and birds.