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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... reader . Those that are gener- ally designated as " problem " novels remain the province of the poorer readers or of the good readers going through " a phase . " In this sense , modern children's literature seems almost to have split ...
... reader . Those that are gener- ally designated as " problem " novels remain the province of the poorer readers or of the good readers going through " a phase . " In this sense , modern children's literature seems almost to have split ...
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... readers of science fiction , however , neither science nor fact has much to do with their appreciation of this , their favorite kind of fiction , and their reading gratification . That readers of the genre responded to it with ...
... readers of science fiction , however , neither science nor fact has much to do with their appreciation of this , their favorite kind of fiction , and their reading gratification . That readers of the genre responded to it with ...
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... readers with some sense of hope on a personal level , but still most young readers will understand that many of the issues Burton raises are still unresolved today . Paradoxically enough , this very modernity sometimes operates against ...
... readers with some sense of hope on a personal level , but still most young readers will understand that many of the issues Burton raises are still unresolved today . Paradoxically enough , this very modernity sometimes operates against ...
Contents
the Golden Ages of Childrens Literature | 18 |
Realistic Fiction | 31 |
The Problem Novel | 66 |
Copyright | |
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