The Voice of the Narrator in Children's Literature: Insights from Writers and CriticsCharlott Otten, Gary D. Schmidt As Otten and Schmidt note in their preface, voice is a broad metaphor. Thus the 41 essays in this collection provide varied approaches, examining point of view, focus, selection of details, tone, and even illustrations as part of the narrative identity. Eight genres, including picture books, fantasy, realism, and biography, receive separate study in generally brief articles by writers and more substantial analyses by critics. . . . In her contribution, Jill Paton Walsh describes contemporary criticism as an `impenetrable thicket of technical terms.' In most cases, the critics here avoid jargon. They speak clearly, offering practical criticsm accessible to anyone seriously concerned about narrative technique in children's literature. Choice |
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... Picture books are like strings of beads , the story the string , and the pictures the beads , each one individual in ... picture book from this tale . Since all I wanted was a simple story line , I omitted Chaucer's material on dreams ...
... book , Whispers , rewritten from the point of view of one who no longer ... picture books which I did with Leonard Everett Fisher , however , presented ... children's writing , with the attention to the autonomous self . My work on The ...
... illustrated songbook of Skip to My Lou ( 1975 ) . It is the chorus of animals gathered at the window sill making ... picture book called Take Me Out to the Airfield ! ( 1976 ) , subtitled How the Wright Brothers Invented the Airplane ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
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