Thursday's Child: Trends and Patterns in Contemporary Children's LiteratureSketches the history of children's literature, looks at the genres of fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction, folklore, poetry, problem novels and picture books, and recommends specific works |
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Page 106
Would he have come to the same conclusion about today ' s stories of talking
animals ? These are , in ... Locke in all probability would not have considered
animal tales to be fantasy , else he would have forbidden them . Nor did J . R . R
...
Would he have come to the same conclusion about today ' s stories of talking
animals ? These are , in ... Locke in all probability would not have considered
animal tales to be fantasy , else he would have forbidden them . Nor did J . R . R
...
Page 109
takes the quite legitimate characteristics of a certain animal that have overtones
of a certain type of human being ( pompous ... The concerns of White ' s animals
are far less philosophical and so more closely attuned to natural animal life .
takes the quite legitimate characteristics of a certain animal that have overtones
of a certain type of human being ( pompous ... The concerns of White ' s animals
are far less philosophical and so more closely attuned to natural animal life .
Page 112
But despite the book ' s wholeness and its poetic vision , it is Adams ' s view of
humanity that severs its link with animal fantasy , particularly of the past . His view
of animals is a reversal of that in Kipling ' s Jungle Books . While Mowgli could ...
But despite the book ' s wholeness and its poetic vision , it is Adams ' s view of
humanity that severs its link with animal fantasy , particularly of the past . His view
of animals is a reversal of that in Kipling ' s Jungle Books . While Mowgli could ...
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Contents
the Golden Ages of Childrens Literature | 18 |
Realistic Fiction | 31 |
The Problem Novel | 66 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Thursday's Child: Trends and Patterns in Contemporary Children's Literature |
| Authors | Egoff, Sheila, Sheila A. Egoff |
| Contributor | American Library Association |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | American Library Association, 1981 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 3 Aug 2006 |
| ISBN | 0838903274, 9780838903278 |
| Length | 323 pages |
| Subjects | › › Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / General |
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