International Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature
Further Reading Bettelheim, B. (1976) The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales, New York: Knopf. Bold, ...
36 Information Books Peggy Heeks Definitions Public libraries have, for decades, divided their stock into ‘fiction’ and ‘non-fic ...
Purposes Served Traditionally, information books have set out to present facts about a specific subject. There is a long history ...
valuable in practice include (in rising order of reading age) Children’s Britannica, first published in 1960, Oxford Children’s ...
importance. Examples can be found among winners of The Times Educational Supplement’s Information Book Awards, such as Spiders b ...
reasonable to expect an information book to have an organic shape—which, again, will be linked to its purpose and its subject. I ...
the adult market—a dictionary of dates, for example, or a field guide to wild birds. At one time, there was a perceived shortage ...
was preferred to fiction. While the majority of students said that they derived satisfaction from reading, a critique of both pr ...
has brought constraints in institutional book budgets. In these circumstances, the information book market remained relatively b ...
Trends The most obvious change in information books during the past forty years has been the increase in importance of illustrat ...
Department of Education and Science (1975) A Language for Life (The Bullock Report), London: HMSO. Department of Education and S ...
37 Children’s Magazines Marianne Carus Introduction According to a recent survey, 48 million children (ages 2–17) in the USA and ...
valuable data about the interests, tastes, and preferences of today’s children. Therefore, periodicals can play an important rol ...
magazines with a religious focus like Weite Welt [Wide World] (8–14). Das Knickerbocker- Bandenblatt, started in 1993, entertain ...
Zornička [Morning Star] (7–9), and Ohník [The Little Fire] (9–11). They are all general- interest magazines. Slniečko [Little Su ...
include science, history, sports, and activities. Toupi [Spinning Top] is for 2 to 4-year- olds. Germany By far the most sophist ...
careers began with contributing to this magazine. Several quality magazines, published at the turn of the century, died after th ...
periodical. But after the Second World War, all of Europe, including Holland, was flooded with comics from the USA and from Fran ...
[the Pal Paper] (8–14). It is a general-interest periodical. For horse-loving teenagers there is Min Häst (6–16) and, for all an ...
with a focus on science experiments, computers, games, and puzzles. Chalk Talk (5– and Rain Coast are published in British Colu ...
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