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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... Leon Garfield , Alan Garner , Ursula Le Guin , Eleanor Cameron , and Paula Fox wrote novels that were the very antithesis of the narrow problem novel . Rather , their works brought modern children into their own time through an enriched ...
... Leon Garfield , Alan Garner , Ursula Le Guin , Eleanor Cameron , and Paula Fox wrote novels that were the very antithesis of the narrow problem novel . Rather , their works brought modern children into their own time through an enriched ...
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... Leon Garfield , Barbara Willard , and Hester Burton - account to a large extent for a feeling of substance in the genre . Having thus carefully noted factors unfavorable to the develop- ment of historical fiction , one then finds that ...
... Leon Garfield , Barbara Willard , and Hester Burton - account to a large extent for a feeling of substance in the genre . Having thus carefully noted factors unfavorable to the develop- ment of historical fiction , one then finds that ...
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... Leon Garfield does it . The eighteenth century , which is Garfield's specialty , lends itself particularly well to his often larger - than - life approach . His novels revolve around swashbuckling highwaymen and captains ; eccentric ...
... Leon Garfield does it . The eighteenth century , which is Garfield's specialty , lends itself particularly well to his often larger - than - life approach . His novels revolve around swashbuckling highwaymen and captains ; eccentric ...
Contents
the Golden Ages of Childrens Literature | 18 |
Realistic Fiction | 31 |
The Problem Novel | 66 |
Copyright | |
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