The School Story - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The School Story write by Andrew Clements. This book was released on 2002-08. The School Story available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Twelve-year-old Natalie has written a story her best friend says is good enough to publish. But how can two sixth graders conquer the tough world of children's publishing? Illustrations.
After the First Death
After the First Death - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook After the First Death write by Robert Cormier. This book was released on 1991-02-01. After the First Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Who will be the next to die? They've taken the children. And the son of a general. But that isn't enough. More horrors must come...
Table Lands
Table Lands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Table Lands write by Kara K. Keeling. This book was released on 2020-06-04. Table Lands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Food is a signifier of power for both adults and children, a sign of both inclusion and exclusion and of conformity and resistance. Many academic disciplines—from sociology to literary studies—have studied food and its function as a complex social discourse, and the wide variety of approaches to the topic provides multidisciplinary frames for understanding the construction and uses of food in all types of media, including children’s literature. Table Lands: Food in Children’s Literature is a survey of food’s function in children’s texts, showing how the sociocultural contexts of food reveal children’s agency. Authors Kara K. Keeling and Scott T. Pollard examine texts that vary from historical to contemporary, noncanonical to classics, and Anglo-American to multicultural traditions, including a variety of genres, formats, and audiences: realism, fantasy, cookbooks, picture books, chapter books, YA novels, and film. Table Lands offers a unified approach to studying food in a wide variety of texts for children. Spanning nearly 150 years of children’s literature, Keeling and Pollard’s analysis covers a selection of texts that show the omnipresence of food in children’s literature and culture and how they vary in representations of race, region, and class, due to the impact of these issues on food. Furthermore, they include not only classic children’s books, such as Winnie-the-Pooh, but recent award-winning multicultural novels as well as cookbooks and even one film, Pixar’s Ratatouille.
The Nation in Children's Literature
The Nation in Children's Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Nation in Children's Literature write by Kit Kelen. This book was released on 2013-02-11. The Nation in Children's Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the meaning of nation or nationalism in children’s literature and how it constructs and represents different national experiences. The contributors discuss diverse aspects of children’s literature and film from interdisciplinary and multicultural approaches, ranging from the short story and novel to science fiction and fantasy from a range of locations including Canada, Australia, Taiwan, Norway, America, Italy, Great Britain, Iceland, Africa, Japan, South Korea, India, Sweden and Greece. The emergence of modern nation-states can be seen as coinciding with the historical rise of children’s literature, while stateless or diasporic nations have frequently formulated their national consciousness and experience through children’s literature, both instructing children as future citizens and highlighting how ideas of childhood inform the discourses of nation and citizenship. Because nation and childhood are so intimately connected, it is crucial for critics and scholars to shed light on how children’s literatures have constructed and represented historically different national experiences. At the same time, given the massive political and demographic changes in the world since the nineteenth century and the formation of nation states, it is also crucial to evaluate how the national has been challenged by changing national languages through globalization, international commerce, and the rise of English. This book discusses how the idea of childhood pervades the rhetoric of nation and citizenship, and how children and childhood are represented across the globe through literature and film.
History and the Construction of the Child in Early British Children's Literature
History and the Construction of the Child in Early British Children's Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook History and the Construction of the Child in Early British Children's Literature write by Jackie C. Horne. This book was released on 2016-04-22. History and the Construction of the Child in Early British Children's Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How did the 'flat' characters of eighteenth-century children's literature become 'round' by the mid-nineteenth? While previous critics have pointed to literary Romanticism for an explanation, Jackie C. Horne argues that this shift can be better understood by looking to the discipline of history. Eighteenth-century humanism believed the purpose of history was to teach private and public virtue by creating idealized readers to emulate. Eighteenth-century children's literature, with its impossibly perfect protagonists (and its equally imperfect villains) echoes history's exemplar goals. Exemplar history, however, came under increasing pressure during the period, and the resulting changes in historiographical practice - an increased need for reader engagement and the widening of history's purview to include the morals, manners, and material lives of everyday people - find their mirror in changes in fiction for children. Horne situates hitherto neglected Robinsonades, historical novels, and fictionalized histories within the cultural, social, and political contexts of the period to trace the ways in which idealized characters gradually gave way to protagonists who fostered readers' sympathetic engagement. Horne's study will be of interest to specialists in children's literature, the history of education, and book history.
