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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... listening boy , Arthur , sees it all in his mind's eye . Mayne moves smoothly from the old man's tale to : Arthur saw . He saw directly , with the children pictured in his mind , each one clearly there , even if the names he had heard ...
... listening boy , Arthur , sees it all in his mind's eye . Mayne moves smoothly from the old man's tale to : Arthur saw . He saw directly , with the children pictured in his mind , each one clearly there , even if the names he had heard ...
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... listened who find themselves in trouble eventually . ' ' Why ? ' ' Because it is extremely dull , " said Aunt Susan tartly , " to grow old with nothing inside your head but your own voice . Tedious , to put it mildly . ' Another rare ...
... listened who find themselves in trouble eventually . ' ' Why ? ' ' Because it is extremely dull , " said Aunt Susan tartly , " to grow old with nothing inside your head but your own voice . Tedious , to put it mildly . ' Another rare ...
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... listening child : " In the summers , my Aunt Yentl liked to tell stories on the Sabbath after the main meal , when my Uncle Joseph lay down for a nap . " The pivotal story in the book is " Naftali the Storyteller and His Horse , Sus ...
... listening child : " In the summers , my Aunt Yentl liked to tell stories on the Sabbath after the main meal , when my Uncle Joseph lay down for a nap . " The pivotal story in the book is " Naftali the Storyteller and His Horse , Sus ...
Contents
the Golden Ages of Childrens Literature | 18 |
Realistic Fiction | 31 |
The Problem Novel | 66 |
Copyright | |
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