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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... piece of literature . Thomas Day's Sandford and Merton with its heavily pedagogic writing is only interesting today as an English expression of Rousseau's theory of childhood education in fictional form ; it is literature in the most ...
... piece of literature . Thomas Day's Sandford and Merton with its heavily pedagogic writing is only interesting today as an English expression of Rousseau's theory of childhood education in fictional form ; it is literature in the most ...
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... piece of history is conveyed in fictional form . By contrast , the mood and tone of Walsh's Fireweed are all doubt and darkness . Bill is a runaway evacuee who , in a London air - raid shelter , meets Julie , also a runaway , but from a ...
... piece of history is conveyed in fictional form . By contrast , the mood and tone of Walsh's Fireweed are all doubt and darkness . Bill is a runaway evacuee who , in a London air - raid shelter , meets Julie , also a runaway , but from a ...
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... pieces of dialogue - oriented dramatic poetry are unlike any found in the work of modern children's poets . The poems in his collections , Ann at Highwood Hall : Poems for Children ( 1964 ) and The Penny Fiddle : Poems for Children ...
... pieces of dialogue - oriented dramatic poetry are unlike any found in the work of modern children's poets . The poems in his collections , Ann at Highwood Hall : Poems for Children ( 1964 ) and The Penny Fiddle : Poems for Children ...
Contents
the Golden Ages of Childrens Literature | 18 |
Realistic Fiction | 31 |
The Problem Novel | 66 |
Copyright | |
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