Thursday's Child: Trends and Patterns in Contemporary Children's LiteratureBeschrijving van de ontwikkeling van het hedendaagse Engelstalige kinder- en jeugdboek, in de vorm van een schets van diverse genres, toonaangevende auteurs en afzonderlijke titels. |
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... seen in the contrast between present and past . The most obvious and profound change between contemporary writing and its predecessors comes in the ultimate fate of the young protagonists . In books of the past children were almost ...
... seen in the contrast between present and past . The most obvious and profound change between contemporary writing and its predecessors comes in the ultimate fate of the young protagonists . In books of the past children were almost ...
Page 91
... seen as an amorphous form , a shape - changer , as Death . Even in Lloyd Alexander's more comic approach to epic fantasy in his Prydain series , there is Arawin , the Death Lord , Master of Evil , the shape - changer who can only be seen ...
... seen as an amorphous form , a shape - changer , as Death . Even in Lloyd Alexander's more comic approach to epic fantasy in his Prydain series , there is Arawin , the Death Lord , Master of Evil , the shape - changer who can only be seen ...
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... seen in those books that explore the child's everyday world , the realistic picture book . In these it can be seen , in the simplest combination of words and pictures , that children are not secure , but sad or alarmed . And although ...
... seen in those books that explore the child's everyday world , the realistic picture book . In these it can be seen , in the simplest combination of words and pictures , that children are not secure , but sad or alarmed . And although ...
Contents
the Golden Ages of Childrens Literature | 18 |
Realistic Fiction | 31 |
The Problem Novel | 66 |
Copyright | |
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