International Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature
settings and characters even as they learn the basic conventions of how story works. Thomas’s illustrations provide one single a ...
strong. Consider the effect of feminism on literature. ‘Children’ are no longer a homogeneous group of readers; they are constit ...
impression rather than a fact. Although their intrinsic worth is judged differently, all books are packaged to be sold. Publishe ...
came from the London Times Literary Supplement in the 1960s, but children’s literature remained a kind of appendage to serious p ...
constructed. Then, the claim is, readers will understand, from their responses to the text, ‘who is doing what to whom’, and thu ...
making the most of the innocence of beginning readers to engage them in new reading games. If children’s literature begets new c ...
McGann, J.J. (1991) The Textual Condition, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Mackey, M. (1995) ‘Communities of fictions ...
Part I Theory and Critical Approaches ...
2 Defining Children’s Literature and Childhood Karín Lesnik-Oberstein The definition of ‘children’s literature’ lies at the hear ...
The meaning of children’s literature as ‘books which are good for children’ in turn crucially indicates that the two constituent ...
the point is that ideas entertained about these [family] relations may be dissimilar at moments separated by lengthy periods of ...
derived meanings, and the actual use of ‘children’ and ‘literature’ within ‘children’s literature’ in very specific, and often v ...
literature (Heimeriks and Van Toorn 1989:370–372). However, Barbara Wall argues in contrast to Travers, White, and Lypp, that Al ...
1908 by the Government of the Netherlands East Indies [when Indonesia was a Dutch colony]. Sunindyo 1987:44–45 Japanese critic T ...
project also illustrates the extent to which differences of opinion exist and threaten the coherence of children’s literature cr ...
Books must be judged as literature on their own merits. And children should be given excellent literature’ (34). ‘Children’ in r ...
of the Maori in children’s books: ‘What are we after? Not just cultural trappings—that’s for sure. The essence of children? Yes. ...
A children’s book uses simple vocabulary geared to the untrained mind? Compare a little Kipling to a little Hemingway and think ...
Egoff 1987:355 Yoko Inokuma, similarly, in discussing writing about minority groups in Japanese children’s literature, argues th ...
one limitation to [many] books, however, is their emphasis on, identification with, and relevance only to middle class children. ...
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