International Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature
Elizabeth Coatsworth had also written of settlers, but Away Goes Sally (1934) is a more comfortable story of a house being moved ...
The brotherhood of men fighting a common enemy features in Blood Feud (1976), and Frontier Wolf (1980); a rare heroine appears i ...
Other American writers at this time included Jean Fritz, whose Brady (1960) observes a boy unable to keep a secret, but whose in ...
rhythm of the Scottish tongue without the use of dialect. Her finest book is The Stronghold (Carnegie Medal 1974), in which she ...
Carrie’s War was based on Nina Bawden’s own experience as an evacuee and paints a picture of an uncomfortable and unforgettable ...
1986), observed by Anna and Caleb in beautiful spare prose. There are, too, few wasted words in Isaac Campion (1986), Janni Howk ...
Sutcliff, R. (1983) Blue Remembered Hills, London: Bodley Head. Trease, G. (1971) A Whiff of Burnt Boats, London: Macmillan. ——( ...
31 Books for Younger Readers Colin Mills The history of books for the young is a fascinating and intricate narrative about the t ...
adult interest in books through the rapid growth of teacher training and of school libraries. Rose’s (1984) is a fascinating acc ...
child will encounter. Peepo! (1981) shows family life in the 1940s through the eyes of a very young child—with ‘peepholes’ in th ...
anthropomorphised as friends. Novice readers have to understand stories as a particular kind of imaginative activity. An importa ...
reading of Beatrix Potter’s stories in which he shows how she dealt with complex ideas relating to childhood fears, including id ...
the Spy (1964)). British writers such as Gene Kemp, in her Cricklepit stories (The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler (1977) et al.), ...
Much of the sharpest and wittiest content has appeared in picture books over the last twenty years. Gifted artists have shown th ...
conventions of television, video narrative and cartoons. Attention here can be drawn to Shirley Hughes’s Chips and Jessie (1985) ...
References Bosche, S. (1987) Jenny Lives with Eric and Martin, London: Gay Men’s Press. Brown, H. and Mathie, V. (1990) Inside W ...
32 Teenage Fiction: Realism, Romances, Contemporary Problem Novels Julia Eccleshare The demarcation of reading by age is always ...
The notion of teenagers as a separate group of readers with their own tastes and demanding a style of writing that is directed s ...
possibly, but certainly Ruth was a very unliberated heroine by the standards of the next two decades. Teenage fiction emerged al ...
boldness of purpose and her directness of style were recognised and applauded in many circles at the time. Admitting that sex am ...
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