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Rereading Childhood Books

Alison Waller
Rereading Childhood Books Book PDF

Author : Alison Waller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474298292

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Shortlisted for the ESSE book awards 2020, for Literatures in the English Language Childhood books play a special role in reading histories, providing touchstones for our future tastes and giving shape to our ongoing identities. Bringing the latest work in Memory Studies to bear on writers' memoirs, autobiographical accounts of reading, and interviews with readers, Rereading Childhood Books explores how adults remember, revisit, and sometimes forget, these significant books. Asking what it means to return to familiar works by well-known authors such as Lewis Carroll, C. S. Lewis and Enid Blyton, as well as popular and ephemeral material not often considered as part of the canon, Alison Waller develops a poetics of rereading and presents a new model for understanding lifelong reading. As such she reconceives the history of children's literature through the shared and individual experiences of the readers who carry these books with them throughout their lives.

On Rereading

Patricia Meyer Spacks
On Rereading Book PDF

Author : Patricia Meyer Spacks
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674267473

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On Rereading by Patricia Meyer Spacks Pdf

After retiring from a lifetime of teaching literature, Patricia Meyer Spacks embarked on a year-long project of rereading dozens of novels: childhood favorites, fiction first encountered in young adulthood and never before revisited, books frequently reread, canonical works of literature she was supposed to have liked but didn’t, guilty pleasures (books she oughtn’t to have liked but did), and stories reread for fun vs. those read for the classroom. On Rereading records the sometimes surprising, always fascinating, results of her personal experiment. Spacks addresses a number of intriguing questions raised by the purposeful act of rereading: Why do we reread novels when, in many instances, we can remember the plot? Why, for example, do some lovers of Jane Austen’s fiction reread her novels every year (or oftener)? Why do young children love to hear the same story read aloud every night at bedtime? And why, as adults, do we return to childhood favorites such as The Hobbit, Alice in Wonderland, and the Harry Potter novels? What pleasures does rereading bring? What psychological needs does it answer? What guilt does it induce when life is short and there are so many other things to do (and so many other books to read)? Rereading, Spacks discovers, helps us to make sense of ourselves. It brings us sharply in contact with how we, like the books we reread, have both changed and remained the same.

The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel)

Ellen Raskin
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Author : Ellen Raskin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781101486054

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The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel) by Ellen Raskin Pdf

From the Newbery Award-winning author of THE WESTING GAME, more clever riddles and wordplay, clues to be found, and mysteries to be solved! Glub! Blub! Mrs. Caroline "Little Dumpling" Carillon isn't quite sure what to expect when she sets off to meet her husband, Leon. After all, she hasn't seen him since their wedding when she was five and he was seven. But their reunion is cut short when a storm knocks him off their boat, and he disappears completely, leaving only one very waterlogged clue (Glub! Blub!). Will Dumpling be able to find Leon (or is it Noel) again? And just what is a glub blub?

Mine for Keeps

Jean Little
Mine for Keeps Book PDF

Author : Jean Little
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781774882955

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Mine for Keeps by Jean Little Pdf

Away at school, Sally Copeland has always dreamed of going home, but now that she’s there, she feels frightened and unsure of herself.Will her brother and sister accept her? Will she be able to do things for herself? And what will it be like to go to a regular school and be the only one with cerebral palsy?

Aliens Ate My Homework

Bruce Coville
Aliens Ate My Homework Book PDF

Author : Bruce Coville
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781416938835

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Aliens Ate My Homework by Bruce Coville Pdf

Rod is surprised when a miniature spaceship lands in his school science project and reveals five tiny aliens, who ask his help in apprehending an interstellar criminal. Now reissued with an exciting new look. Illustrations.

Trickster's Choice

Tamora Pierce
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Author : Tamora Pierce
Publisher : Ember
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004-09-28
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780375828799

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Trickster's Choice by Tamora Pierce Pdf

When you gamble with kingdoms, all bets are off. Legends are born in this thrilling and New York Times bestselling spy saga from the fantasy author who is legend herself: Tamora Pierce. Aly is from a family known for great deeds. She is the daughter of Alanna, the famed knight and King’s Champion of Tortall. But even though she is bold and brave, like her mother, her true talents lie on her father’s side, in the art of spying. When Aly is captured by pirates and sold as a slave to an exiled royal family in the faraway Copper Isles, she strikes a bargain with the trickster god. If she can keep young noblewomen Sarai and Dove safe for the summer, then he will return Aly to her family. The task should be simple, but Sarai and Dove are anything but. It’s a time of murderous plotting at court, and Aly will need to rely on her training and the insights of a strange young man named Nawat to survive in a world where trust can cost you your life. “Tamora Pierce’s books shaped me not only as a young writer but also as a young woman. She is a pillar, an icon, and an inspiration. Cracking open one of her marvelous novels always feels like coming home.” —SARAH J. MAAS, #1 New York Times bestselling author “Tamora Pierce didn’t just blaze a trail. Her heroines cut a swath through the fantasy world with wit, strength, and savvy. Her stories still lead the vanguard today. Pierce is the real lioness, and we’re all just running to keep pace.” —LEIGH BARDUGO, #1 New York Times bestselling author

The Man Who Loved Children

Christina Stead
The Man Who Loved Children Book PDF

Author : Christina Stead
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453265253

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The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead Pdf

“This crazy, gorgeous family novel” written at the end of the Great Depression “is one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century” (Jonathan Franzen, The New York Times). First published in 1940, The Man Who Loved Children was rediscovered in 1965 thanks to the poet Randall Jarrell’s eloquent introduction (included in this ebook edition), which compares Christina Stead to Leo Tolstoy. Today, it stands as a masterpiece of dysfunctional family life. In a country crippled by the Great Depression, Sam and Henny Pollit have too much—too much contempt for one another, too many children, too much strain under endless obligation. Flush with ego and chilling charisma, Sam torments and manipulates his children in an esoteric world of his own imagining. Henny looks on desperately, all too aware of the madness at the root of her husband’s behavior. And Louie, the damaged, precocious adolescent girl at the center of their clashes, is the “ugly duckling” whose struggle will transfix contemporary readers. Named one of the best novels of the twentieth century by Newsweek, Stead’s semiautobiographical work reads like a Depression-era The Glass Castle. In the New York Times, Jonathan Franzen wrote of this classic, “I carry it in my head the way I carry childhood memories; the scenes are of such precise horror and comedy that I feel I didn’t read the book so much as live it.”

The Birchbark House

Louise Erdrich
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Author : Louise Erdrich
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780063064188

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The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich Pdf

This National Book Award finalist by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Louise Erdrich is the first installment in an essential nine-book series chronicling 100 years in the life of one Ojibwe family, and includes beautiful interior black-and-white artwork done by the author. She was named Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop. Omakayas and her family live on an island in Lake Superior. Though there are growing numbers of white people encroaching on their land, life continues much as it always has. But the satisfying rhythms of their life are shattered when a visitor comes to their lodge one winter night, bringing with him an invisible enemy that will change things forever—but that will eventually lead Omakayas to discover her calling. By turns moving and humorous, this novel is a breathtaking tour de force by a gifted writer. The beloved and essential Birchbark House series by Louise Erdrich includes The Birchbark House, The Game of Silence, The Porcupine Year, Chickadee, and Makoons.

Awakening Children's Minds

Laura E. Berk
Awakening Children s Minds Book PDF

Author : Laura E. Berk
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 0195171551

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Awakening Children's Minds by Laura E. Berk Pdf

Based on the most recent contemporary research, this is a wide-ranging and practical guide to parenthood and early childhood education. 7 halftones.

Sloppy Firsts

Megan McCafferty
Sloppy Firsts Book PDF

Author : Megan McCafferty
Publisher : Broadway Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780676806649

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Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty Pdf

The first book in the New York Times bestselling Jessica Darling series When her best friend, Hope Weaver, moves away from Pineville, New Jersey, hyperobservant sixteen-year-old Jessica Darling is devastated. A fish out of water at school and a stranger at home, Jessica feels more lost than ever now that the only person with whom she could really communicate has gone. How is she supposed to deal with the boy- and shopping-crazy girls at school, her dad’s obsession with her track meets, her mother salivating over big sister Bethany’s lavish wedding, and her nonexistent love life? A fresh, funny, utterly compelling novel, Sloppy Firsts is an insightful, true-to-life look at Jessica’s predicament as she embarks on another year of teenage torment. From the dark days of Hope’s departure through her months as a type-A personality turned insomniac to her completely mixed-up feelings about Marcus Flutie, the intelligent and mysterious “Dreg” who works his way into her heart, this poignant, hilarious novel is sure to appeal to readers who are still going through it, as well as those who are grateful that they don’t have to go back and grow up all over again. “A hilarious trip down memory lane. You’ll laugh out loud–and cringe–as this first novel by McCafferty takes you back to the soap opera that was high school.”—Glamour

Last Gate of the Emperor

Kwame Mbalia,Prince Joel Makonnen
Last Gate of the Emperor Book PDF

Author : Kwame Mbalia,Prince Joel Makonnen
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338665871

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Last Gate of the Emperor by Kwame Mbalia,Prince Joel Makonnen Pdf

From Kwame Mbalia and Prince Joel David Makonnen comes an Afrofuturist adventure about a mythical Ethiopian empire. Sci-fi and fantasy combine in this epic journey to the stars. Yared Heywat lives an isolated life in Addis Prime -- a hardscrabble city with rundown tech, lots of rules, and not much to do. His worrywart Uncle Moti and bionic lioness Besa are his only family... and his only friends. Often in trouble for his thrill-seeking antics and wisecracking sense of humor, those same qualities make Yared a star player of the underground augmented reality game, The Hunt for Kaleb's Obelisk. But when a change in the game rules prompts Yared to log in with his real name, it triggers an attack that rocks the city. In the chaos, Uncle Moti disappears. Suddenly, all the stories Yared's uncle told him as a young boy are coming to life, of kingdoms in the sky and city-razing monsters. And somehow Yared is at the center of them. Together with Besa and the Ibis -- a game rival turned reluctant ally -- Yared must search for his uncle... and answers to his place in a forgotten, galaxy-spanning war.

A Face for Picasso

Ariel Henley
A Face for Picasso Book PDF

Author : Ariel Henley
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780374314095

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A Face for Picasso by Ariel Henley Pdf

A Schneider Family Book Award Honor Book for Teens "Raw and unflinching . . . A must-read!" --Marieke Nijkamp, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of This Is Where It Ends "[It] cuts to the heart of our bogus ideas of beauty." –Scott Westerfeld, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Uglies I am ugly. There's a mathematical equation to prove it. At only eight months old, identical twin sisters Ariel and Zan were diagnosed with Crouzon syndrome -- a rare condition where the bones in the head fuse prematurely. They were the first twins known to survive it. Growing up, Ariel and her sister endured numerous appearance-altering procedures. Surgeons would break the bones in their heads and faces to make room for their growing organs. While the physical aspect of their condition was painful, it was nothing compared to the emotional toll of navigating life with a facial disfigurement. Ariel explores beauty and identity in her young-adult memoir about resilience, sisterhood, and the strength it takes to put your life, and yourself, back together time and time again.

Autumn Street

Lois Lowry
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Author : Lois Lowry
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1986-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780440403449

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Autumn Street by Lois Lowry Pdf

Elizabeth is forced to grow up when her father goes to fight in World War II. Her family moves in with her grandfather, and a special friend is struck by tragedy. An ALA Notable Children's Book.

If I Ran the Zoo

Dr. Seuss
If I Ran the Zoo Book PDF

Author : Dr. Seuss
Publisher : RH Childrens Books
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780385379380

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If I Ran the Zoo by Dr. Seuss Pdf

Animals abound in Dr. Seuss’s Caldecott Honor–winning picture book If I Ran the Zoo. Gerald McGrew imagines the myriad of animals he’d have in his very own zoo, and the adventures he’ll have to go on in order to gather them all. Featuring everything from a lion with ten feet to a Fizza-ma-Wizza-ma-Dill, this is a classic Seussian crowd-pleaser. In fact, one of Gerald’s creatures has even become a part of the language: the Nerd!

The Baby Sitters Club Notebook

Sonia W. Black
The Baby Sitters Club Notebook Book PDF

Author : Sonia W. Black
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1987-12
Category : Babysitters
ISBN : 0590412507

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The Baby Sitters Club Notebook by Sonia W. Black Pdf

Everything you wanted to know about babysitting including games and activities, emergency care, and easy.