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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... turned little boys into gentlemen and little girls into princesses . But unlike the children of the past , these qualities of character rarely were achieved without a sustained strug- gle . The young protagonists in the best fantasy and ...
... turned little boys into gentlemen and little girls into princesses . But unlike the children of the past , these qualities of character rarely were achieved without a sustained strug- gle . The young protagonists in the best fantasy and ...
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... turned to a version of the past , a future time when the world has either fallen into chaos or is being rebuilt in the image of an old , simpler order . They take as their models today's prevalent pessimistic theories of social collapse ...
... turned to a version of the past , a future time when the world has either fallen into chaos or is being rebuilt in the image of an old , simpler order . They take as their models today's prevalent pessimistic theories of social collapse ...
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... turned . That essential quality of page - turning at just the right time is created 3. Lee Kingman , and others , Illustrators of Children's Books , 1967-1976 ( Boston : The Horn Book , 1978 ) , p . 31 . by the unity of text and ...
... turned . That essential quality of page - turning at just the right time is created 3. Lee Kingman , and others , Illustrators of Children's Books , 1967-1976 ( Boston : The Horn Book , 1978 ) , p . 31 . by the unity of text and ...
Contents
the Golden Ages of Childrens Literature | 18 |
Realistic Fiction | 31 |
The Problem Novel | 66 |
Copyright | |
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