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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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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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Poetics of Children's Literature

, 1987
In this study, the author isolates the conventions and moral aims that have structured children's literature, from the fairy tales collected and reworked by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm - in particular, "Little Red Riding Hood" - through the ...
Z. Shavit
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The Oxford companion to children's literature

, 1984
FOREWORD PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION A TO Z OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE LIST OF PRIZES AND ...
Daniel Hahn, M. Morpurgo, H. Carpenter, M. Prichard   +3 more
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Disrupting the educational racial contract of Islamophobia: racialized curricular expectations of Muslims in children’s literature

Race Ethnicity and Education, 2020
When racialized knowledge is built into curricular expectations in schools, children are susceptible to beliefs that lead them to a hierarchical understanding of social relationships with particula...
Liou, Daniel D., Cutler, Kelly Deits
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Ethics and Children's Literature

, 2014
Introduction Part I The Dilemma of Didacticism: Attempts to Shape Children as Moral Beings 1 Transmitting Ethics through Books of Golden Deeds for Children Claudia Nelson 2 Sermonizing in New York: The Children's Magazines of Mary Mapes Dodge and Jose ...
C. Mills
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Children’s Literature in Second Language Education

, 2013
1. Introduction Janice Bland Part I: Extensive Reading with Children's Literature 2. Free Reading: Still a Great Idea Stephen Krashen 3. Efficient Use of Literature in Second Language Education: Free Reading and Listening to Stories Beniko Mason 4 ...
Janice Bland, C. Lütge
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African American Children's Literature: The First One Hundred Years.

, 1990
African Americans have been depicted in general literature since the seventeenth century. Essentially, the depictions are stereotyped, pejorative, and unauthentic (Brown, 1933; Baker, 1961; Broderick, 1973; Sims, 1982).
Violet J. Harris
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Criticism, theory, and children's literature

, 1991
Introduction - a map of criticism criticism and children's literature the situation of children's literature defining children's literature approaching the text the text and the reader style and stylistics narrative politics, ideology, and children's ...
P. Hunt
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