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Book Synopsis The Crown Of Dalemark by : Diana Wynne Jones
Download or read book The Crown Of Dalemark written by Diana Wynne Jones and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Countess and Lord Keril send Mitt to kill a young woman Noreth Onesdaughter, who claims to know where the lost crown is hidden.
Book Synopsis The Crown of Dalemark by : Diana Wynne Jones
Download or read book The Crown of Dalemark written by Diana Wynne Jones and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Countess and Lord Keril send Mitt to kill a young woman, Noreth Onesdaughter, who claims to know where the lost crown is hidden.
Book Synopsis Fantasy and the Real World in British Children's Literature by : Caroline Webb
Download or read book Fantasy and the Real World in British Children's Literature written by Caroline Webb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the children’s books of three extraordinary British writers—J.K. Rowling, Diana Wynne Jones, and Terry Pratchett—and investigates their sophisticated use of narrative strategies not only to engage children in reading, but to educate them into becoming mature readers and indeed individuals. The book demonstrates how in quite different ways these writers establish reader expectations by drawing on conventions in existing genres only to subvert those expectations. Their strategies lead young readers to evaluate for themselves both the power of story to shape our understanding of the world and to develop a sense of identity and agency. Rowling, Jones, and Pratchett provide their readers with fantasies that are pleasurable and imaginative, but far from encouraging escape from reality, they convey important lessons about the complexities and challenges of the real world—and how these may be faced and solved. All three writers deploy the tropes and imaginative possibilities of fantasy to disturb, challenge, and enlarge the world of their readers.
Book Synopsis Diana Wynne Jones by : Farah Mendlesohn
Download or read book Diana Wynne Jones written by Farah Mendlesohn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British author Diana Wynne Jones has been writing speculative fiction for children for more than thirty years. A clear influence on more recent writers such as J. K. Rowling, her humorous and exciting stories of wizard's academies, dragons, and griffins-many published for children but read by all ages-are also complexly structured and thought provoking critiques of the fantasy tradition. This is the first serious study of Jones's work, written by a renowned science fiction critic and historian. In addition to providing an overview of Jones's work, Farah Mendlesohn also examines Jones's important critiques of the fantastic tradition's ideas about childhood and adolescence. This book will be of interest to Jones's many admirers and to those who study fantasy and children's literature.
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.
Book Synopsis Readers In Wonderland by : Deborah O'Keefe
Download or read book Readers In Wonderland written by Deborah O'Keefe and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-08-03 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "O'Keefe examines a wide range of children's fantasy books, and draws on her own experiences as a sympathetic reader as well as on the views of psychologists and social theorists. Readers in Wonderland ranges from William Steig's small picture books to J. R. R. Tolkien's epic series; from utopias like L. Frank Baum's Oz to dystopias like Virginia Hamilton's Dustland; from less-known works like Patricia Wrightson's to the phenomenon that is J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter; from time travel to parallel worlds; and from magical transformations and wishes that come true to lonely journeys and huge battles of good against evil."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Fantasy Fiction by : Frances Sinclair
Download or read book Fantasy Fiction written by Frances Sinclair and published by School Library Association. This book was released on 2008 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handbook of fantasy fiction for teachers, librarians, parents and guardians and children themselves in which to find many titles of fantasy fiction that they like, or may be tempted, to read. Includes groups such as classic fantasy, comic fantasy, Arthurian, dark fantasy, animals and dragons.
Book Synopsis The Spellcoats by : Diana Wynne Jones
Download or read book The Spellcoats written by Diana Wynne Jones and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tanqui discovers she has the only means to conquer the evil Kankredin who threatens her own people and the Heathens who have invaded prehistoric Dalemark.
Book Synopsis The Spellcoats and the Crown of Dalemark by : D. Jones
Download or read book The Spellcoats and the Crown of Dalemark written by D. Jones and published by . This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the second two books in a quartet in which four young people from different times struggle to save a war-torn land.
Download or read book Mythprint written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Children's Fantasy Literature by : Michael Levy
Download or read book Children's Fantasy Literature written by Michael Levy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy has been an important and much-loved part of children's literature for hundreds of years, yet relatively little has been written about it. Children's Fantasy Literature traces the development of the tradition of the children's fantastic - fictions specifically written for children and fictions appropriated by them - from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century, examining the work of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, C. S. Lewis, Roald Dahl, J. K. Rowling and others from across the English-speaking world. The volume considers changing views on both the nature of the child and on the appropriateness of fantasy for the child reader, the role of children's fantasy literature in helping to develop the imagination, and its complex interactions with issues of class, politics and gender. The text analyses hundreds of works of fiction, placing each in its appropriate context within the tradition of fantasy literature.
Download or read book Here Be Dragons written by Stefan Ekman and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies (2016) Fantasy worlds are never mere backdrops. They are an integral part of the work, and refuse to remain separate from other elements. These worlds combine landscape with narrative logic by incorporating alternative rules about cause and effect or physical transformation. They become actors in the drama—interacting with the characters, offering assistance or hindrance, and making ethical demands. In Here Be Dragons, Stefan Ekman provides a wide-ranging survey of the ubiquitous fantasy map as the point of departure for an in-depth discussion of what such maps can tell us about what is important in the fictional worlds and the stories that take place there. With particular focus on J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, Ekman shows how fantasy settings deserve serious attention from both readers and critics. Includes insightful readings of works by Steven Brust, Garth Nix, Robert Holdstock, Terry Pratchett, Charles de Lint, China Miéville, Patricia McKillip, Tim Powers, Lisa Goldstein, Steven R. Donaldson, Robert Jordan, and Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction by : Don D'Ammassa
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction written by Don D'Ammassa and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 1657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents articles on the horror and fantasy genres of fiction, including authors, themes, significant works, and awards.
Book Synopsis The Child as Critic by : Glenna Davis Sloan
Download or read book The Child as Critic written by Glenna Davis Sloan and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bestselling text has helped countless numbers of educators to create effective reading programs that are fun and inspiring for both the student and the educator. New features include a chapter on contemporary literary theories for classroom practice, a section on storytelling, assessment advice and more.
Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of Fantasy Literature by : Allen Stroud
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Fantasy Literature written by Allen Stroud and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-06-12 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy is a genre in motion, gradually expanding its reach and historical sources to embrace a global identity Historical Dictionary of Fantasy Literature, Second Edition is a snapshot of the genre in this moment, identifying new themes and sources that are emerging to inspire, enhance and invigorate the published works of fantasy writers.
Book Synopsis Drowned Ammet by : Diana Wynne Jones
Download or read book Drowned Ammet written by Diana Wynne Jones and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his protest against the tyrannical government fails, a young boy escapes, with two other children, to the mysterious Holy Islands where they learn the power of two folk figures celebrated by their countrymen.
Book Synopsis Humor in Young Adult Literature by : Walter Hogan
Download or read book Humor in Young Adult Literature written by Walter Hogan and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrates the accomplishments of YA authors acclaimed for producing high-quality comedies, who have not yet been treated in a book-length bio-critical study. Simultaneously, it reminds readers that no matter how funny an author of fiction may be, if he shows off his wit in ways that fail to play a natural role in advancing his narrative, he is not writing good fiction. To demonstrate this, humorous passages are presented to illustrate the contribution a sense of humor can make to a work of fiction. The book is arranged topically to facilitate a comparison of distinctive treatments by various authors of adolescent life events, such as sibling rivalry, bullies, and first dates.
