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 83
... animal story , a third form of contempo- rary fantasy , is anything but new . Stories of talking animals are at least as old as Aesop and their appeal has remained constant . The fact that animals talk in these tales and yet act ...
... animal story , a third form of contempo- rary fantasy , is anything but new . Stories of talking animals are at least as old as Aesop and their appeal has remained constant . The fact that animals talk in these tales and yet act ...
Page 112
... animal fantasy , particularly of the past . His view of animals is a reversal of that in Kipling's Jungle Books . While Mowgli could learn skills , manners , even wisdom from his animal friends , he was nonetheless innately superior to ...
... animal fantasy , particularly of the past . His view of animals is a reversal of that in Kipling's Jungle Books . While Mowgli could learn skills , manners , even wisdom from his animal friends , he was nonetheless innately superior to ...
Page 118
... animal - fantasy picture book . Few writers have skirted the boundaries of this difficult genre of animal fantasy with such success as Lucy Boston in her A Stranger at Green Knowe ( 1961 ) , the story of the mystical bond between Hanno ...
... animal - fantasy picture book . Few writers have skirted the boundaries of this difficult genre of animal fantasy with such success as Lucy Boston in her A Stranger at Green Knowe ( 1961 ) , the story of the mystical bond between Hanno ...
Contents
the Golden Ages of Childrens Literature | 18 |
Realistic Fiction | 31 |
The Problem Novel | 66 |
Copyright | |
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