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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... Machine - Gunners uses a group of children to make a less optimis- tic statement about disruption in children's lives . For his stage he has chosen not the anonymity of a huge city but a small , stable com- munity . Still , here too the ...
... Machine - Gunners uses a group of children to make a less optimis- tic statement about disruption in children's lives . For his stage he has chosen not the anonymity of a huge city but a small , stable com- munity . Still , here too the ...
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... Machine - Gunners . London : Macmillan , 1975. 189 pp .; title of US ed . , The Machine Gunners . New York : Greenwillow , 1976 . 186 PP . 4 . The Problem Novel There has been more distinguished 65 REALISTIC FICTION.
... Machine - Gunners . London : Macmillan , 1975. 189 pp .; title of US ed . , The Machine Gunners . New York : Greenwillow , 1976 . 186 PP . 4 . The Problem Novel There has been more distinguished 65 REALISTIC FICTION.
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... machine is programmed - and before that a machine is put together . Who put me together ? Don't give me that bilge about eggs and sperms . Who put me together ; or the cat or the rat or the bat or the good red herring ? We have become ...
... machine is programmed - and before that a machine is put together . Who put me together ? Don't give me that bilge about eggs and sperms . Who put me together ; or the cat or the rat or the bat or the good red herring ? We have become ...
Contents
the Golden Ages of Childrens Literature | 18 |
Realistic Fiction | 31 |
The Problem Novel | 66 |
Copyright | |
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