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Toast and the Familiar in Children’s Literature

Food and Literature, 2018
When Lewis Carroll’s Alice ventures to taste the little bottle labeled “drink me,” she fi nds that “(it had, in fact, a sort of mixed fl avour of cherrytart, custard, pineapple, roast turkey, toff y, and hot buttered toast),” and, as a consequence, “she ...
F. Dolan
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Significant Roles of Children’s Literature In Efl

Global Expert: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra, 2019
ABSTRACTThis article describes about the concept of children’s literature, the genre and the role of children’s literature in teaching English as a foreign language. In Indonesia, English as a foreign language because Indonesian use Bahasa Indonesia for communication.Children’s literature is a kind of literary texts such as picture story books ...
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TEACHER, BOOK AND COMPANION: THE ENVIRONMENT IN SHONA CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

Commonwealth Youth and Development, 2016
Contemporary society has had running battles with citizens, trying to force them to be aware and appreciative of the importance of relating well with, and also safeguarding the environment. Modern ways of child socialisation seem in mentoring youngsters about the being, nature and significance of the environment (both natural and social) in life. Today,
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THE EMERGENCE OF WESTERN ISLAMIC CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

Mousaion: South African Journal of Information Studies, 2016
This article discusses the emergence of Islamic children’s literature and identifies a paradigm shift giving rise to religious and cultural hybridity. It reflects on the initial avoidance of Muslim publishing houses to produce Islamic fiction. The article further outlines the reasons why Islamic children’s literature is now slowly gaining momentum.
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Research & Policy: Stories Still Matter: Rethinking the Role of Diverse Children’s Literature Today

Language Arts, 2016
This essay reviews the landscape of diversity in children’s literature one year after NCTE’s Resolution on the Need for Diverse Children’s and Young Adult Books.
E. E. Thomas
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THE DISADVANTAGED AND THE DISABLED IN SHONA CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: THE NGANO (FOLKTALE) GENRE

Mousaion: South African Journal of Information Studies, 2016
Contemporary Shona society in Zimbabwe has witnessed the mushrooming of organisations meant to protect the disabled and the vulnerable. In addition, empowering legislative measures have been put in place. In most cases, however, such efforts bear limited fruits, especially because they are not in sync with Shona practice.
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#WhoNeedsDiverseBooks?: Preservice Teachers and Religious Neutrality with Children’s Literature

Research in the Teaching of English, 2015
The social media campaign #WeNeedDiverseBooks has called for more varied works of literature. However, one of the arguments for increasing the visibility of diverse books has not received much attention: using #WNDB to cultivate religiously pluralistic ...
Denise Dávila
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SHONA FOLKTALES AS CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: THE CASE OF A.C. HODZA’S NGANO DZECHINYAKARE (1980)

Commonwealth Youth and Development, 2016
Some scholars of the genre of the folktale have argued that since time immemorial, folktales have been children’s literature created by adults for children’s pleasure. The main attraction in so describing African folktale as children’s literature was that this form afforded children entertainment as they listened to the stories narrated mostly by
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The North of England in Children’s Literature

2012
According to Hunt, magic and danger may occur around the ‘Celtic’ fringes, but the north of England is a blank on this map: ‘England is surrounded by wild mountains and wilder men’ (Hunt 1987: 13). Hunt’s remarks connect to a widespread assumption that the nostalgic pastoral idyll is the predominant and most suitable form for children’s literature ...
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Cultural Representation of Disability in Children’s Literature

2015
Research indicates that people’s reactions towards disability and disabled people are based more on what we learn through popular culture than on public policy or personal encounters (Mitchell & Snyder, 2000). Attitudes are learned, and in the Western part of the world disability and impairment are not seen as something that will probably touch all of ...
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