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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... young protagonists suffer pain on an almost cosmic scale , but they also have the temperaments and the insights that make it all credible . A reader genuinely cares what happens to them . And with that ceaseless rumble of war in the ...
... young protagonists suffer pain on an almost cosmic scale , but they also have the temperaments and the insights that make it all credible . A reader genuinely cares what happens to them . And with that ceaseless rumble of war in the ...
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... young people are not involved in high deeds in high places but with the daily social , religious , and political events that affect the lives of ordinary people , particularly the poor , the dispos- sessed , and the persecuted . Unlike ...
... young people are not involved in high deeds in high places but with the daily social , religious , and political events that affect the lives of ordinary people , particularly the poor , the dispos- sessed , and the persecuted . Unlike ...
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... young children and by adults working with young children , as picture books rather than as folktales per se . With the advent of nursery schools and day - care centers and with public libraries paying more attention to the preschool ...
... young children and by adults working with young children , as picture books rather than as folktales per se . With the advent of nursery schools and day - care centers and with public libraries paying more attention to the preschool ...
Contents
the Golden Ages of Childrens Literature | 18 |
Realistic Fiction | 31 |
The Problem Novel | 66 |
Copyright | |
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