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Author : Bertha E. Mahony Miller
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Alice M. Jordan Horn Book written by Bertha E. Mahony Miller and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gale Eaton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442236485
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book The Education of Alice M. Jordan written by Gale Eaton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Alice M. Jordan, who headed children’s work at the Boston Public Library (BPL) from 1902 to 1940, is long overdue. Daughter of a Maine sea captain and a Massachusetts schoolteacher, she was one of the pioneering generation of children’s librarians, women who entered the field when salaries were low, progressive ideals high, academic credentials spotty, and the drive to professionalization was revolutionizing librarianship and education. Modest and unassuming, high-school graduate Jordan worked effectively to improve educational opportunities for children and their librarians alike. She taught at the Simmons Library School, helped create the BPL Training School, founded the New England Round Table of Children’s Librarians (NERTCL), and mentored Bertha Mahony Miller, founder of The Horn Book Magazine. She had a national reputation among children’s book editors and librarians for her critical acumen, clear writing, and astute advice. Locally, she networked tirelessly with Boston educators, negotiated the placement of qualified children’s librarians in all BPL branches, and trained a generation of gifted youth workers—all from a desk in the middle of a busy children’s room. She left a legacy of high standards for children’s reading, storytelling, and reference services. This biography draws on archival materials including Jordan’s correspondence with poet Louise Imogen Guiney and Horn Book editor Miller; BPL memos and reports; and 1979 interviews with Jordan trainees. I have shown her life and achievement in the context of social history, from late nineteenth-century women’s economic opportunities to early twentieth-century developments in librarianship, especially at the BPL. Each chapter has a brief list of milestones in Jordan and U.S. history.
Author : Marilyn Miller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313053189
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Pioneers and Leaders in Library Services to Youth written by Marilyn Miller and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-08-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation of 97 biographical essays celebrates public and school library service to children and young adults through the professional lives and contributions of its pioneers and leaders. Devoted entirely to the field of youth library services, the essays represent both outstanding librarians in the field, as well as those whose work has made significant contributions supporting the work of professional youth librarians. Sketches include modern-day workers, spanning the late 19th century until 1999. Will inspire young people as it underscores the continuing importance of youth library services.
Author : Beverly Lyon Clark
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801881701
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (817 download)
Download or read book Kiddie Lit written by Beverly Lyon Clark and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-01-02 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honor Book for the 2005 Book Award given by the Children's Literature Association The popularity of the Harry Potter books among adults and the critical acclaim these young adult fantasies have received may seem like a novel literary phenomenon. In the nineteenth century, however, readers considered both Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as works of literature equally for children and adults; only later was the former relegated to the category of "boys' books" while the latter, even as it was canonized, came frequently to be regarded as unsuitable for young readers. Adults—women and men—wept over Little Women. And America's most prestigious literary journals regularly reviewed books written for both children and their parents. This egalitarian approach to children's literature changed with the emergence of literary studies as a scholarly discipline at the turn of the twentieth century. Academics considered children's books an inferior literature and beneath serious consideration. In Kiddie Lit, Beverly Lyon Clark explores the marginalization of children's literature in America—and its recent possible reintegration—both within the academy and by the mainstream critical establishment. Tracing the reception of works by Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson Burnett, L. Frank Baum, Walt Disney, and J. K. Rowling, Clark reveals fundamental shifts in the assessment of the literary worth of books beloved by both children and adults, whether written for boys or girls. While uncovering the institutional underpinnings of this transition, Clark also attributes it to changing American attitudes toward childhood itself, a cultural resistance to the intrinsic value of childhood expressed through sentimentality, condescension, and moralizing. Clark's engaging and enlightening study of the critical disregard for children's books since the end of the nineteenth century—which draws on recent scholarship in gender, cultural, and literary studies— offers provocative new insights into the history of both children's literature and American literature in general, and forcefully argues that the books our children read and love demand greater respect.
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Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Horn Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gale Eaton
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810851948
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Well-dressed Role Models written by Gale Eaton and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides a qualitative exploration of juvenile biographies of women, a genre defined here as a book dealing with the whole or partial life of an individual and reviewed as nonfiction for readers in elementary, middle, or junior high school. Beginning with a survey of juvenile material on Elizabeth Tudor published in England and the United States between 1852 and 2002, author Gale Eaton scrutinizes thirty-four books--juvenile biographies, histories, and collected biographies--for trends in both content and rhetoric. Well-Dressed Role Models: The Portrayal of Women in Biographies for Children then goes on to look at close readings of books published in the United States in the years 1946, 1971, and 1996 and presents a penetrating analysis of a genre that serves the needs of youth. The findings of this study include the fact that juvenile biographies make role models out of women who, in many cases, never would have become famous by following all the rules for good girls. By choice of subject and emphasis, their authors dress the life stories of real women in the appropriate values of new generations. Three appendixes providing annotated book lists for each of the three years analyzed conclude this study.
Author : Anne Lundin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135576394
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Constructing the Canon of Children's Literature written by Anne Lundin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-10-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pioneering historical study, Anne Lundin argues that schools, libraries, professional organizations, and the media together create and influence the constantly changing canon of children's literature. Lundin examines the circumstances out of which the canon emerges, and its effect on the production of children's literature. The volume includes a comprehensive list of canonical titles for reference.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Horn Book Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacalyn Eddy
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299217930
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Bookwomen written by Jacalyn Eddy and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2006-09-25 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive account of the women who, as librarians, editors, and founders of the Horn Book, shaped the modern children's book industry between 1919 and 1939. The lives of Anne Carroll Moore, Alice Jordan, Louise Seaman Bechtel, May Massee, Bertha Mahony Miller, and Elinor Whitney Field open up for readers the world of female professionalization. What emerges is a vivid illustration of some of the cultural debates of the time, including concerns about "good reading" for children and about women's negotiations between domesticity and participation in the paid labor force and the costs and payoffs of professional life. Published in collaboration among the University of Wisconsin Press, the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America (a joint program of the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Wisconsin Historical Society), and the University of Wisconsin–Madison General Library System Office of Scholarly Communication.
Author : Beverly Lyon Clark
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1421415593
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Afterlife of "Little Women" written by Beverly Lyon Clark and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Superb, scrupulously researched . . . a comprehensive narrative for understanding the changing reception of Little Women.” —Gregory Eiselein, coeditor of The Louisa May Alcott Encyclopedia The hit Broadway show of 1912. The lost film of 1919. Katharine Hepburn, as Jo, sliding down a banister in George Cukor’s 1933 movie. Mark English’s shimmering 1967 illustrations. Jo—this time played by Sutton Foster—belting “I'll be / astonishing” in the 2004 Broadway musical flop. These are only some of the markers of the afterlife of Little Women. There’s also the nineteenth-century child who wrote, “If you do not ...make Laurie marry Beth, I will never read another of your books as long as I live.” Not to mention Miss Manners, a Little Women devotee, who announced that the book taught her an important life lesson: “Although it’s very nice to have two clean gloves, it’s even more important to have a little ink on your fingers.” In The Afterlife of Little Women, Beverly Lyon Clark, a leading authority on children’s literature, maps the reception of Louisa May Alcott’s timeless novel, first published in 1868. Clark divides her discussion into four historical periods. The first covers the novel’s publication and massive popularity in the late nineteenth century. In the second era—the first three decades of the twentieth century—the novel becomes a nostalgic icon of the domesticity of a previous century, while losing status among the literary and scholarly elite. In its mid-century afterlife, from 1930-1960, Little Women reaches a low in terms of its critical reputation but remains a well-known piece of Americana within popular culture. The book concludes with a long chapter on Little Women’s afterlife from the 1960s to the present, a period in which the reading of the book seems to decline, while scholarly attention expands dramatically and popular echoes continue to proliferate. Drawing on letters and library records as well as reviews, plays, operas, film and television adaptations, spinoff novels, translations, Alcott biographies, and illustrations, Clark demonstrates how the novel resonates with both conservative family values and progressive feminist ones. She grounds her story in criticism of children’s literature, book history, cultural studies, feminist criticism, and adaptation studies—in a book that is “fascinating, cover-to-cover, for the many readers of Little Women still out there, whether scholar or generally interested fan” (Studies in the Novel).
Author : Janice M. Del Negro
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440872090
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Storytelling written by Janice M. Del Negro and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book serves as both a textbook and reference for faculty and students in LIS courses on storytelling and a professional guide for practicing librarians, particularly youth services librarians in public and school libraries. Storytelling: Art and Technique serves professors, students, and practitioners alike as a textbook, reference, and professional guide. It provides practical instruction and concrete examples of how to use the power of story to build literacy and presentation skills, as well as to create community in those same educational spaces. This text illustrates the value of storytelling, covers the history of storytelling in libraries, and offers valuable guidance for bringing stories to contemporary listeners, with detailed instructions on the selection, preparation, and presentation of stories. It also provides guidance around the planning and administration of a storytelling program. Topics include digital storytelling, open mics and slams, and the neuroscience of storytelling. An extensive and helpful section of resources for the storyteller is included in an expanded Part V of this edition.
Author : Philip Nel
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1628468203
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (284 download)
Download or read book Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss written by Philip Nel and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-07-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crockett Johnson (born David Johnson Leisk, 1906-1975) and Ruth Krauss (1901-1993) were a husband-and-wife team that created such popular children's books as The Carrot Seed and How to Make an Earthquake. Separately, Johnson created the enduring children's classic Harold and the Purple Crayon and the groundbreaking comic strip Barnaby. Krauss wrote over a dozen children's books illustrated by others, and pioneered the use of spontaneous, loose-tongued kids in children's literature. Together, Johnson and Krauss's style--whimsical writing, clear and minimalist drawing, and a child's point-of-view--is among the most revered and influential in children's literature and cartooning, inspiring the work of Maurice Sendak, Charles M. Schulz, Chris Van Allsburg, and Jon Scieszka. This critical biography examines their lives and careers, including their separate achievements when not collaborating. Using correspondence, sketches, contemporary newspaper and magazine accounts, archived and personal interviews, author Philip Nel draws a compelling portrait of a couple whose output encompassed children's literature, comics, graphic design, and the fine arts. Their mentorship of now-famous illustrator Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are) is examined at length, as is the couple's appeal to adult contemporaries such as Duke Ellington and Dorothy Parker. Defiantly leftist in an era of McCarthyism and Cold War paranoia, Johnson and Krauss risked collaborations that often contained subtly rendered liberal themes. Indeed, they were under FBI surveillance for years. Their legacy of considerable success invites readers to dream and to imagine, drawing paths that take them anywhere they want to go.
Author : Leonard S. Marcus
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395674079
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Minders of Make-believe written by Leonard S. Marcus and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcus offers this animated history of the visionaries--editors, illustrators, and others--whose books have transformed American childhood and American culture.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1250 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Horn Book Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Suzanne Rahn
Publisher : New York : Garland Pub.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Children's Literature written by Suzanne Rahn and published by New York : Garland Pub.. This book was released on 1981 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catherine Butler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137365013
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Modern Children's Literature written by Catherine Butler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An established introductory textbook that provides students with a guide to developments in children's literature over time and across genres. This stimulating collection of critical essays written by a team of subject experts explores key British, American and Australian works, from picture books and texts for younger children, through to graphic novels and young adult fiction. It combines accessible close readings of children's texts with informed examinations of genres, issues and critical contexts, making it an essential practical book for students. This is an ideal core text for dedicated modules on Children's literature which may be offered at the upper levels of an undergraduate literature or education degree. In addition it is a crucial resource for students who may be studying children's literature for the first time as part of a taught postgraduate degree in literature or education. New to this Edition: - Revised and updated throughout in light of recent children's books and the latest research - Includes new coverage of key topics such as canon formation, fantasy and technology - Features an essay on children's poetry by the former Children's Laureate, Michael Rosen
Author : Linda Lear
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312377960
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (779 download)
Download or read book Beatrix Potter written by Linda Lear and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the life of the children's author and illustrator who created such memorable characters as Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-Duck, and Tom Kitten.
