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Title The prose and the passion : children and their reading / edited by Morag Styles, Eve Bearne, and Victor Watson
Published London ; New York : Cassell, 1994

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Description xi, 226 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Series Cassell education series
Cassell education.
Contents Introduction: Singular and Plural / Victor Watson -- 1. 'The Blowing Dust': Popular Culture and Popular Books for Children / Mary Hilton -- 2. 'Girl Talk': The Possibilities of Popular Fiction / Jenny Daniels -- 3. 'Am I That Geezer, Hermia?': Children and 'Great' Literature / Morag Styles -- 4. 'I Normally Daydream on Sundays': Can Children Write Literature? / Helen Arnold -- 5. Thresholds: Organizing Poetry Events in Schools and the Community / Helen Cook. Deterrent / Wendy Cope -- 6. Where Do Stories Come From? / Eve Bearne -- 7. Unpackaged Text: Learning to Read the Media / Avril Harpley -- 8. From Drama into Story: Strategies for Investigating Texts / Lesley Hendy -- 9. What Children's Books Tell Us about Teaching Language / Mike Taylor -- 10. Three Moments in the History of Narrative / Michael Armstrong -- 11. Finding a Voice: A Consideration of the Stories That Girls Dictate / Brigid Smith
12. 'It's Only a Story, Isn't It?': Creativity and Commitment in Writing for Children / Robert Leeson. Eaten Father, Eaten Mother / Ben Haggarty -- 13. Children's Literature and Literature's Children / Victor Watson -- 14. Making Picture Books / Anthony Browne -- 15. The Only Lemon in a Bowl of Planets: On Children, Their Poems and Their Obsessions / Fred Sedgwick -- 16. Memory, and Writing for Children Especially / Jill Paton Walsh
Notes Based on presentations made to a conference on children's literature held at Homerton College in Sept. 1992
Continues: After Alice
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Subject Children -- Books and reading -- Great Britain -- Congresses.
Children -- Books and reading.
Children -- Books and reading -- Great Britain.
Children's literature -- History and criticism.
Children's literature, English -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
Children's literature, English -- History and criticism.
Children's literature, English.
Children's literature.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Bearne, Eve, 1943-
Styles, Morag.
Watson, Victor.
LC no. 95197197
ISBN 0304327719 (paperback)
0304327727 (hardback)
OTHER TI After Alice