| Description |
xv, 416 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Part I: Books And Children -- Defining Children's Literature, Peter Hunt -- Critical Opinion: Reading Children's Books, Julia Briggs -- Protecting Children's Literature, Natalie Babbitt -- The Imaginative Uses of Secrecy in Children's Literature, John Daniel Steele -- An Eye for Thresholds, Tim Wynne-Jones -- Interpreting the Past: Reflections of an Historical Novelist, Joan Aiken -- Progressive Utopia, Or, How to Grow Up Without Growing Up, Perry Nodelman -- Alice, Huck, Pinnochio, and the Blue Fairy: Bodies Real and Imagined, M.L. Rosenthal -- Of Style and the Stylist, Eleanor Cameron -- Fin de Siecle, Roy Stokes -- Part Ii: Myth And Folklore -- Runes to Ward Off Sorrow: Rhetoric of the English Nursery Rhyme, Joanne L. Lynn -- Woods and Castles, Towers and Huts: Aspects of Setting in the Fairy Tale, Joyce Thomas -- Unknown Childhood, P.L. Travers -- A Dissolving Ghost, Margaret Mahy -- Deeper Than You Think, Patricia Wrightson -- Part Iii: Fantasy -- Turtles All the Way Down, Jane Yolen -- Some Presumptuous Generalizations About Fantasy, Perry Nodelman -- Fantasy: Why Kids Read It, Why Kids Need It, Tamora Pierce -- Dr Seuss and Dr Einstein: Children's Books and Scientific Imagination -- Part Iii: Science Fiction -- Science Fiction as Myth and Metaphor, Monica Hughes -- Let There Be Dragons, Terry Pratchett -- What is it About Science Fiction?, William Sleator -- Part Iv: Poetry -- The Poem On Page 81, Myra Cohn Livinston -- Strict and Loose Nonsense: Two Worlds of Children's Verse, X.J. Kennedy -- Part Vi: Picture Books And Illustrations -- What is a Picture Book?, Uri Shulevitz -- How Picture Books Work, Perry Nodelman -- Black and White Set the Tone, Tessa Rose Chester -- The Construction of Texts: Picture Books and the Metafictive, David Lewis -- Part Vii: Gender Relations -- The Absent Mother: Women Against Women in Old Wives' Tales, Marina Warner -- Women's Coming of Age in Fantasy, Brian Attebery -- Fathers Fare Poorly in Children's Books, Michael Valpy -- Part Viii: Young Adult Literature -- Innocence and Experience in the Young Adult Romance, Sarah Ellis -- The Adolescent Novel of Ideas, Peter Hollindale -- Part Ix: Recent Trends And Overview -- The Turbulent Years, John Rowe Townsend -- Trends in Children's Books Today, James Cross Giblin -- Cultural Politics from a Writer's Point of View -- There Was Once, Margaret Atwood -- The Lion, The Witch, and The Drug Addict, Susan Smith -- Greening the Child, Rosalind Coward -- Abandonment: The New Realism of the Eighties, Marilyn Fain Aspeloff -- Taking Political Stock: New Theoretical and Critical Approaches to Anglo-American Children's Literature in the 1980s, Jack Zipes -- Epilogue: Some Thoughts on Conecting -- Notes on Contributors -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [402]-404) and index |
| Subject |
Children -- Books and reading.
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Children's literature -- History and criticism.
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| Author |
Egoff, Sheila A.
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| LC no. |
96163504 |
| ISBN |
0195410246 (paperback) |
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