International Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature
local and international awards for picture books, collections of stories such as The First Margaret Mahy Story Book (1972) and n ...
followed two years later by Betty Gilderdale’s A Sea Change, 145 Years of New Zealand Junior Fiction (1982), a comprehensive sur ...
With the honourable exception of Margaret Mahy’s work, fantasy has always been the weakest genre in New Zealand writing for chil ...
Further Reading Gilderdale, B. (1982) A Sea Change, 145 Years of New Zealand Junior Fiction, Auckland: Longman Paul. ——(1987) In ...
84 Canada English-Speaking Canada Alexandra West Background Children’s literature in English-speaking Canada parallels, though i ...
literature in the classroom. In effecting this, federal money supporting Canada Council publishing grants and literary awards, a ...
in Jan Truss’s Jasmin (1982) or Kevin Major’s Hold Fast (1978); or anthropomorphic animal adventures, as in Sheila Burnford’s Th ...
psychologically realistic or historical, as, for instance, happens in Collura’s Winners or Lunn’s The Root Cellar. Given Canada’ ...
authors, and the names of the prizes they have won, by year, as well as suggestions of books suitable for specific ages of child ...
picturebooks, such as Freda Ahenakew and George Littlechild’s How the Birch Tree Got Its Stripes (1988), and How the Mouse Got B ...
French-Speaking Canada Elvine Gignac-Pharand French Canadian children’s literature is constantly developing, and scholarly resea ...
créatrices de livres québécois pour la jeunesse. The list includes illustrators Hélène Desputeaux and Paul Roux, writers Michel ...
Further Reading Doolittle, J. and Barnieh, Z. (1979) A Mirror of Our Dreams: Children and Theatre in Canada, Vancouver: Talonboo ...
85 Children’s Literature in the USA: A Historical Overview Jerry Griswold Before 1800 It is only by contrivance that we can divi ...
and each biography follows a predictable plot ending with the Protestant Pieta: a child contracts some terminal illness, readies ...
and Aesop’s Fables. The result of this last endorsement was a shift from sanctimonious, deathbed reading to a new kind of vigoro ...
fashion in Europe, while the Grimm Brothers were huddled around peasant fires and ventilating ancient German myths and legends a ...
seq.) which contained passages from what was slowly being recognised as this country’s literature—among them: Whittier’s ‘Snow-b ...
book’ drew its inspiration from elsewhere (from sentimental and domestic fiction) and offered emotional stories occurring in the ...
All this social attention paid to the child may explain the great interest during the period (even among adults) in children’s l ...
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