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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... offer differences in readership from the present . They are read by the best and the most mature readers as well as the slower readers , usually at a later age . They conform to Thomas C. Haliburton's definition of a good book as ...
... offer differences in readership from the present . They are read by the best and the most mature readers as well as the slower readers , usually at a later age . They conform to Thomas C. Haliburton's definition of a good book as ...
Page 105
... offer solu- tions to specific dilemmas ; they offer instead a gentle but courageous view of life as a whole . Issues of morality and values are suggested but lightly and obliquely . They take the ordinary world and add to it splinters ...
... offer solu- tions to specific dilemmas ; they offer instead a gentle but courageous view of life as a whole . Issues of morality and values are suggested but lightly and obliquely . They take the ordinary world and add to it splinters ...
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... offer a kind of gentle parody of the folk tradition , done up in simple , almost cartoonlike fashion . In probably the best example of the genre , Preussler's The Little Ghost lives in the town museum of Eulenberg , but he has never ...
... offer a kind of gentle parody of the folk tradition , done up in simple , almost cartoonlike fashion . In probably the best example of the genre , Preussler's The Little Ghost lives in the town museum of Eulenberg , but he has never ...
Contents
the Golden Ages of Childrens Literature | 18 |
Realistic Fiction | 31 |
The Problem Novel | 66 |
Copyright | |
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