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Author : Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0679818391
When a disagreeable man with two boys marries a widow with three children, family adjustments are complicated by two magic chemistry sets which cause strange things to happen around the house.
Author : Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0606243585
When a disagreeable man with two boys marries a widow with three children, family adjustments are complicated by two magic chemistry sets which cause strange things to happen around the house.
Author : Zena Sutherland
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1980-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0226780597
Includes indexes.
Author : Suzanne Rahn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136510847
First Published in 1995. Dedicated to furthering original research in children's literature and culture, the Children's Literature and Culture series will include monographs on individual authors and illustrators, historical examinations of different periods, literary analyses of genres, and comparative studies on literature and the mass media. The series is international in scope and is intended to encourage innovative research in children's literature with a focus on interdisciplinary methodology. This volume looks at ‘undiscovered’ children’s literature.
Author : Farah Mendlesohn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135461355
British author Diana Wynne Jones has been writing speculative fiction for children for more than thirty years. A clear influence on more recent writers such as J. K. Rowling, her humorous and exciting stories of wizard's academies, dragons, and griffins-many published for children but read by all ages-are also complexly structured and thought provoking critiques of the fantasy tradition. This is the first serious study of Jones's work, written by a renowned science fiction critic and historian. In addition to providing an overview of Jones's work, Farah Mendlesohn also examines Jones's important critiques of the fantastic tradition's ideas about childhood and adolescence. This book will be of interest to Jones's many admirers and to those who study fantasy and children's literature.
Author : Charles Butler
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781461658702
Four British Fantasists explores the work of four of the most successful and influential of the generation of fantasy writes who rose to prominence in the "second Golden Age" of children's literature in Britain: Susan Cooper, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Penelope Lively.
Author : Peter Hunt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1399 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134436842
Children's publishing is a huge international industry and there is ever-growing interest from researchers and students in the genre as cultural object of study and tool for education and socialization.
Author : Sanna Lehtonen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786461363
This book explores representations of girlhood and young womanhood in recent English language children's fantasy by focusing on two fantastic body transformation types: invisibility and age-shifting. Drawing on recent feminist and queer theory, the study discusses the tropes of invisibility and age-shifting as narrative devices representing gendered experiences. The transformations offer various perspectives on a girl's changing body and identity and provide links between real-life and fantastic discourses of gender, power, invisibility and aging. The main focus is on English-language fantasy published since the 1970s but the motifs of invisibility and age-shifting in earlier tales and children's books is reviewed; this is the first study of children's fantasy literature that considers these tropes at length. Novels discussed are from both critically acclaimed authors and the less well known. Most of the novels depicting invisible or age-shifting girls are neither thoroughly conventional nor radically subversive but present a range of styles. In terms of gender, children's fantasy novels can be more complex than they are often interpreted to be.
Author : Bernard A. Drew
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1997-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780313078194
The book focuses on individuals writing in the '90s, but also includes 12 classic authors (e.g., Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, J.R.R. Tolkien) who are still widely read by teens. It also covers some authors known primarily for adult literature (e.g., Stephen King) and some who write mainly for middle readers but are also popular among young adults (e.g., Betsy Byars). An affordable alternative to multivolume publications, this book makes a great collection development tool and resource for author studies. It will also help readers find other books by and about their favorite writers.
Author : Farah Mendlesohn,Edward James
Publisher : Libri Publishing Limited
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781907471643
Some of the earliest books ever written, including The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Odyssey, deal with monsters, marvels, extraordinary voyages, and magic, and this genre, known as fantasy, remained an essential part of European literature through the rise of the modern realist novel. Tracing the history of fantasy from the earliest years through to the origins of modern fantasy in the 20th century, this account discusses contributions decade by decade--from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy and Lewis's Narnia books in the 1950s to J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. It also discusses and explains fantasy's continuing and growing popularity.
Author : Peter Hunt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1310 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136486753
Children's literature continues to be one of the most rapidly expanding and exciting of interdisciplinary academic studies, of interest to anyone concerned with literature, education, internationalism, childhood or culture in general. This edition has been expanded and includes over 50 new articles. New topics include Postcolonialism, Comparative Studies, Ancient Texts, Contemporary Children's Rhymes and Folklore, Contemporary Comics, War, Horror, Series Fiction, Film, Creative Writing, and 'Crossover' literature. The international section has been expanded to reflect world events.
Author : Margaret Hobson,Jennifer Madden,Ray Prytherch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429867538
First published in 1992, this Sourcebook is a basic working tool for all those concerned with children’s reading. It will help librarians and teachers to select a comprehensive stock of children’s’ fiction for their institutions.The authors in the sourcebook have been selected on the grounds of importance, popularity and current availability. Author entries are arranged in alphabetical order and indexes provided by title, series, age-range and genre. Each entry consists of some background information, and evaluative comment on style of the book, a list of the authors books with publisher, date and price, and literary agent where applicable. There is a suggestion of similar authors, sequels, related series and reader age range.
Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547812876
George Edward Challenger, better known as Professor Challenger, is a protagonist in a series of fantasy and science fiction novels and stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Professor Challenger is an aggressive, hot-tempered, dominating figure, and also a pretentious and self-righteous scientific jack-of-all-trades. The Challenger Series includes: "The Lost World" describes an expedition to a plateau in South America where prehistoric creatures including dinosaurs still survive. "The Poison Belt" depicts the situation in which the Earth passes through a cloud of poisonous ether. "The Land of Mist" is a tale of the supernatural, focusing on Edward Malone's at first professional, and later personal interest in Spiritualism. "When the World Screamed" tells of Challenger's World Echinus theory. "The Disintegration Machine" concerns the potentially dangerous new invention by a scientist named Theodore Nemor. Memories and Adventures: An Autobiography of Arthur Conan Doyle Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. The Sherlock Holmes stories are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. Doyle is also known for writing the fictional adventures of Professor Challenger and for propagating the mystery of the Mary Celeste. He was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels.
Author : Don Borchert
Publisher : Random House
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781448132836
The public library - a haven of calm, source of information, home to the student, the geek and the aging librarian. Or so you might think. Don Borchert's ten years as assistant librarian have taught him that a library is more than just a place to borrow books, it's also a place where people hide from the law, fall in love, fight, deal drugs, introduce their children to reading, look up porn and pursue their dreams. Borchett's hilarious memoir delves behind the bookshelves as he discovers the weird, dangerous and downright dirty world of a public library and the fearless civil servants who patrol its aisles.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 1011 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX