International Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature
Oral tradition Story-telling itself began beside the fire. Though no one sat down to analyse them, these tales told aloud probab ...
Meanwhile, the popularity of such heroic tales as Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan of the Apes (1914) continued to portray Africa a ...
1992, are five publishers from Nigeria, and one each from Kenya, Ghana and South Africa. It is cheaper and therefore easier to p ...
good name, receives a large reward for exposing a smuggling syndicate which saves his family from poverty and pays his own schoo ...
Village Bridge by Andre Proctor, and several picture books by Margaret Tredgold (for example, The Hare in the Moon) have proved ...
Library’ kit (1993) with ten carefully workshopped, full colour picture books, and a programme of teacher training to support it ...
and there is a keen sense of collectivity. Its content can be frightening, and it can threaten to separate the reader from socie ...
There has been a paradoxical disproportion between the number of books published for children and books published for adults. In ...
[The Heroic End of Babemba, King of Sikasso] (1980) by C.O.Diong, or accounts of every day life (Moussa et Amina au village [Mou ...
Livres africains pour la jeunesse [African Books for the Young] (1994) Paris: Les amis de la Joie par les livres. Nyarko, F. (19 ...
78 The Indian Sub-Continent Manorama Jafa The Indian sub-continent comprises five major countries: India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pak ...
limitations there is growing consciousness of the importance of children’s books for reading pleasure. The increased interest in ...
of original and creative writing is still in a low key. A large number of books continue to draw upon traditional and already pu ...
including English and Hindi since 1969 under the Nehru Bal Pustakalaya Scheme. The National Council of Educational Research and ...
instant popularity. During this period, several magazines also came out; the foremost of these were Vidyarthi (1914), Shishu (19 ...
illustrated a number of books and liked to illustrate his own stories. His notable books are Gupi Gayen Bagha Bayen, Sonar Kalla ...
Since 1952, original writings have developed at a faster pace. There is the unique annual event, Pustak Yatra, when the writers ...
Oriya Oriya is spoken in the state of Orissa. The first effort was made by Balkrishna Kar during the early 1930s when he prepare ...
Telegu Telegu is spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Christian missionaries published an illustrated book, Pedda Balasiksha i ...
Betweeen 1955 and 1970, only a few books for children were published in Bangla language. These too were mostly based on the oral ...
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