International Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature
Review (a refereed journal issued by the Children’s Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society), Dime Novel Round-up, Fiv ...
researchers into the historical background of children’s literature, academic theoreticians and literary critics an outlet for t ...
institutions in Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Norway, and Switzerland. CLIP will begin in 1996 with fifty ...
Kite, W. (1877) ‘Fiction in public libraries’, The American Library Journal 1, 8:35–36. Lewis, W.D. (1912) ‘The aim of the Engli ...
42 Censorship Mark I.West Most discussions of the relationship between censorship and children’s literature focus on attempts to ...
sin in the human heart, and the how and why of the entrance of every vice can be traced’ (Rousseau 1762/1974:56). Rousseau belie ...
publisher wanted to censor a line from The Tale of Tom Kitten. At one point in the story, Tom falls off a wall and loses his clo ...
critics, went so far as to claim that the reading of penny dreadfuls could lead to madness. In an article published in the Fortn ...
part, Stratemeyer’s books took the form of mystery stories in which youngsters solve crimes. His books were popular with childre ...
Authority’. This system of self-censorship succeeded in dampening much of the controversy. (West 1988a: 43–53). However, it had ...
One of the most frequently censored is Judy Blume. The censors have focused their attacks on five of her books: Are You There Go ...
conservative manifestos he wrote in the early 1980s. While her husband was writing these tracts, Beverly LaHaye founded a conser ...
something that is controversial, it’s better to take it out.’ Since the late 1980s, many other textbook publishers have joined H ...
intolerance, but in their own eyes, they are protecting innocent children and working for the benefit of society. References Bar ...
43 Prizes and Prizewinners Keith Barker Why award prizes? What importance is attached to them by writers, publishers, those sele ...
chose children’s librarians as trustees of such an award at a time when their number was only slowly increasing. He did, however ...
imaginative writing, as if it required less intellectual acumen. This is often how such awards are perceived today, even with th ...
Thomson 1985:24 Indeed, the winners of this award and similar British ‘children’s choice’ awards are not that different from tho ...
colour’ the pain and the pride of their history, of their struggle for human and civil rights, is an ever-present and unfinished ...
Garrett 1993:314 So much for the prizes themselves, but what about the winning books and their authors and illustrators? It has ...
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