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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Page 132
... presents difficulties and ulti- mately fails to apply . The present has an uncanny habit of leaping ahead of itself and what seems to be the distant future today is suddenly commonplace tomorrow . Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues ...
... presents difficulties and ulti- mately fails to apply . The present has an uncanny habit of leaping ahead of itself and what seems to be the distant future today is suddenly commonplace tomorrow . Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues ...
Page 138
... present knowledge of the problems besetting society : high unemployment , runaway inflation , shortages , and hoarding . The father of the Mortimer family buys Noah's Castle because it is large , isolated , and has plenty of storage ...
... present knowledge of the problems besetting society : high unemployment , runaway inflation , shortages , and hoarding . The father of the Mortimer family buys Noah's Castle because it is large , isolated , and has plenty of storage ...
Page 139
... present conditions . As the book ends : Never mind death and the stars , Will ; never mind the glory and the forever , this will do the rest of my life . He walked the length of the School Room , a little boy in Class 3 , and it was a ...
... present conditions . As the book ends : Never mind death and the stars , Will ; never mind the glory and the forever , this will do the rest of my life . He walked the length of the School Room , a little boy in Class 3 , and it was a ...
Contents
the Golden Ages of Childrens Literature | 18 |
Realistic Fiction | 31 |
The Problem Novel | 66 |
Copyright | |
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