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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... interests , play a role in deciding which children's books survive . The academic community as well is a factor in ... interest . They choose books for filming that already have had a long career of appeal , among them E. Nesbit's The ...
... interests , play a role in deciding which children's books survive . The academic community as well is a factor in ... interest . They choose books for filming that already have had a long career of appeal , among them E. Nesbit's The ...
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... interest in their work and therefore an audience for it , if only a specialized one . But the writers of historical fiction face a decline in interest in history , as the lack of general history trade books for children attests . That ...
... interest in their work and therefore an audience for it , if only a specialized one . But the writers of historical fiction face a decline in interest in history , as the lack of general history trade books for children attests . That ...
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... interest for light fantasy and science fiction . It may well be that the ubiquity of the lavishly illustrated single tale gives the impression to older children that the folk- and fairy tales are for little kids . At any rate this genre ...
... interest for light fantasy and science fiction . It may well be that the ubiquity of the lavishly illustrated single tale gives the impression to older children that the folk- and fairy tales are for little kids . At any rate this genre ...
Contents
the Golden Ages of Childrens Literature | 18 |
Realistic Fiction | 31 |
The Problem Novel | 66 |
Copyright | |
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