International Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature
children’s attention in his Divine Emblems or Book for Boys and Girls (1686), described as a sort of ‘after-glow’ to the Pilgrim ...
Capacities of Youth (1756) dispensed with the letters, while retaining the use of dramatised episodes. Richardson’s novels kindl ...
fiction was to make domesticity interesting, the women writers achieved recognition for the children ‘discounted from history fo ...
that novel are found in the Moral Tales for younger readers, in which the diverse speech patterns of a female Quixote, a mannish ...
genre: ‘The golden fagots’ appeared in Household Words (15 June 1850) and ‘The magic fishbone’ in 1868. In A Child’s History of ...
the secrets of the human condition. Hardy (1840–1928) empowered his two boy heroes to seize destiny and redirect it (the stream ...
To Chesterton, the Just So Stories (1902) were ‘a great chronicle of primal fables’, their animals ‘walking portents’. Brecht ad ...
is too old for fairy stories’ (Ransome 1916/1984: 7). In his stories wise fools succeed and innocents outwit the witch Baba Yaga ...
and nature. These poems, celebratory rather than facetious, are likely to appeal individually. The much more ambitious What is t ...
of Jill Paton Walsh, Nina Bawden, Penelope Lively, Jane Gardam, and others, whose association with children’s literature has not ...
35 Books Adopted by Children Stuart Hannabuss It has always been difficult to define exact boundaries between children’s literat ...
John Gordon and Sylvia Engdahl. Issues of this type are particularly interesting in popular generic writing, like westerns and s ...
that is why children have appropriated many modern writers who do not write for them’— and she cites Buchan, Masefield, Hammond ...
Down; dystopias exist in the work of Kafka and Huxley as well as in John Christopher and Peter Dickinson; supernatural events ar ...
the stereotypes they contain, and raise the question as to how far children adopt any story which is twodimensional (and, by tha ...
‘animals are ideal partners and accomplices’ and friendships with them are partnerships ‘with a being who, like [the child reade ...
was partly to provide them with a good example of independence, rationality, diligence, and triumph over a hostile environment, ...
adopt it for themselves. Reasons might be pragmatic, when adults think that the work would simply bore children. Reasons might a ...
appear on English syllabi in schools and colleges. Crises of identity and courage are explored in works like Crane’s The Red Bad ...
other media. These serve as cross-media prequels and sequels which they ‘know’ the readers already know. The issues of censorshi ...
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