International Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature
origin. The results of these influences can still be seen at the end of the twentieth century. During the five hundred years tha ...
served as a watershed in children’s literature; many children’s books which had been steadily reprinting for years finally disap ...
European children share a common literary heritage—the Moomintrolls (Finland), Heidi (Switzerland), Struwwelpeter (Germany), Bab ...
problems of post-colonialism—continuing links with European countries, poverty, low literacy levels, conflict between cultural g ...
simultaneously. The addition of the text in the appropriate language constitutes a very small part of the total production costs ...
worthiness. It is only in the last twenty years or so that Welsh-language children’s books have been able to compete fairly, in ...
prize, the Caldecott Medal, the first award for distinguished work in picture-books, was established in 1938.) Other notable con ...
Little Philio] (1989) consists of Philio’s accounts of her daily life, told with great humour, while Amarante Adler-Seta’s Ta Pa ...
57 Culture and Developing Countries Anne Pellowski Culture has many definitions, but here the term will be defined as the means ...
of a human person. Story can be sung, chanted in poetic form, spoken prose, or a combination of any of those. Enhanced informati ...
that such memory aids were used in many cultures. But it was chiefly such language devices as rhythmic speech, formulaic express ...
It is possible to trace much of what is oral in texts that have come down through the centuries, as well as recently recorded te ...
that for some groups in New Guinea, there is no word for colour, only a word for ‘paint’ because of the ritual significance of p ...
orature from children in developing countries that this must remain for now a highly speculative conclusion. The Kenyan writer N ...
imagination with the morally guided is a constant process in much of his work’ (Fagunwa 1982:2). Pilgrim’s Progress by John Buny ...
the ‘choose your own adventure’ type of book published in North America and Europe which are linear in pattern regardless of the ...
numerous peoples and cultures that make up the current population of that country. But although these books use portions of reco ...
Fuglesang 1982:199–200 There is no question that the illustration and design of children’s books in developing countries present ...
Many of these languages have speakers numbering in hundreds of thousands rather than millions; nevertheless, each group has its ...
Mair, V. (1988) Painting and Performance: Chinese Picture Recitation and its Indian Genesis, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Pres ...
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