International Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature

...

International Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature ...

International Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature Edited by PETER HUNT Associate Editor Sheila Ray London and New Yo ...

First published 1996 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Libra ...

Contents Editor’s Preface x Contributors xi 1 Introduction Margaret Meek 1 I THEORY AND CRITICAL APPROACHES 14 2 Defining Childr ...

13 Fairy Tales and Folk-tales Ruth B.Bottigheimer 148 14 Myth and Legend Maurice Saxby 162 15 Playground Rhymes and the Oral Tra ...

29 Pony Books Alison Haymonds 357 30 Historical Fiction Janet Fisher 365 31 Books for Younger Readers Colin Mills 374 32 Teenage ...

47 Libraries and Research Collections Karen Nelson Hoyle 539 48 What the Authors Tell Us Peter Hunt 548 IV APPLICATIONS OF CHILD ...

63 The Netherlands Anne de Vries 701 64 France Jean Perrot 709 65 Spain Carmen García, Surrallés and Antonio Moreno Verdulla wit ...

78 The Indian Sub-Continent Manorama Jafa 797 79 The Far East Sheila Ray 812 80 China Wong Yoon WahLaina Ho 819 81 Japan Teruo J ...

Editor’s Preface Children’s literature, as a body of oral and written texts to be described, and as a subject of study to be inv ...

Contributors Julinda Abu-Nasr, Lebanese American University, Beirut Gillian Adams, editor, Children’s Literature Abstracts Maria ...

Elvine Gignac-Pharand, Laurentian University, (Ontario), Canada Betty Gilderdale, Author and Lecturer, Auckland, New Zealand Jer ...

Maurice Saxby, Author and Lecturer, Sydney, Australia Zohar Shavit, Tel Aviv University Louisa Smith, Mankato State University J ...

1 Introduction Margaret Meek Acts of Definition Encyclopedias are usually designed to assemble and to encompass, for the purpose ...

revisions of Written for Children (1965/1990), a text kept alert to change; it is still a starting place for many students. Over ...

have kept of how individual children grew up with books (Paley 1981; Crago and Crago 1983; Wolf and Brice Heath 1992). One of th ...

kinds of writing conventions for different school subjects, children make narrative serve many of the purposes of their formal l ...

writers to exploit deliberately the bookish nature of books, as in John Burningham’s Where’s Julius? (1986) and Aidan Chambers’s ...

depicted in visual metafictions. In 1993 appeared Babette Cole’s Mummy Laid an Egg, a picture story of two exuberant children wh ...