International Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature
And Man, the chief of all, his God forsakes. Yet by th’ Almighty’s Mercy ‘twas decreed, Heaven’s Heir should satisfie for Man’s ...
A curious hieroglyphick Bible: or select Passages in the Old and New Testaments represented with Emblematical Figures for the Am ...
Benjamin Harris. Until the nineteenth century, the majority of American children’s religious books, including children’s Bibles, ...
Drama also proffered religious and devotional messages. At the French court of Louis XIV the pious Marquise de Maintenon encoura ...
or holy living. These were distributed by pedlars, some of whom were ‘Christian pedlars’ who dealt (or were supposed to deal) on ...
very much in tune with the popular imagination of the time, and contributed to mainstream popular culture, and many of the stori ...
edition, ‘it has been so often read and re-read that most of the early editions have long ere this been thumbed out of existence ...
The influence of these books (which became known as ‘rewards’) was pervasive, and should not be underestimated in literary and c ...
supported by the Sunday School movement with its buying of prizes as a reward for good attendance and by the fact that the books ...
liberty to regard Biblical stories simply as stories’ (Martin 1993:33). Faith in Print, an initiative of the Christian Book Prom ...
Battle of St George Without (1966) is set in a run-down city area. Noel Streatfeild’s vicarage family move from the inner London ...
books with a religious message that reflected popular taste. Popular taste has changed and whether there will be room for a self ...
22 Animal Stories Keith Barker The predominance of animals in children’s books comes as no surprise when looking at the way West ...
Animals have continued to be a major feature of rhyme for children, from the very popular Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard ...
Let none of your own species excel you in any amiable quality, for want of your endeavours to equal the best; and do your duty i ...
The Victorian and Edwardian eras saw not only a flowering of talent writing for children but also a period when animal character ...
It is difficult today to separate the truth of Beatrix Potter’s writing from the commercialism which has surrounded it for so lo ...
cannot be denied that much of the books’ appeal rests in their nostalgia, as is witnessed in the high sales of Potter merchandis ...
which Grahame felt was so important and which reaches its apotheosis in the chapter ‘The piper at the gates of dawn’. Between th ...
credible novels in which the harsh lives of animals in the wild are depicted with a ferocious attention to detail. White Fang (1 ...
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