Category: About Kids Books

Explores the art of Beatrix Potter. This book demonstrates the influences of contemporary artists, her flowering as an artist and a writer of books for children, and her later life as farmer and conservationist through more than 450 colour and black-and-white reproductions of her work.
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Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature

By: Potter/Lear, Linda

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 394876

ISBN: 0312369344

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Peter Rabbit, Mr. McGregor, and many other Beatrix Potter characters remain in the hearts of millions. However, though Potter is a household name around the world, few know the woman behind the illustrations. Her personal life, including a romantic relationship with her publisher, Norman Warne, and her significant achievements outside of children's literature remain largely unknown. In Linda Lear's enchanting new biography, we get the life story of this incredible, funny, and independent woman. As one of the first female naturalists in the world, Potter brought the beauty and importance of nat...
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Dr. Seuss & Mr. Geisel: A Biography

By: Seuss/Morgan, Judith & Neil

Price: $7.00

Seller ID: 377652

ISBN: 030680736X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Horton, Thidwick, Yertle, the Lorax, the Grinch, Sneetches, and the Cat in the Hat are just a handful of the bizarre and beloved characters Theodor S. Geisel (1904-1991), alias Dr. Seuss, created in his forty-seven children's books, from 1937's And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street to 1990's Oh, the Places You'll Go During his lifetime Dr. Seuss was honored with numerous degrees, three Academy Awards, and a Pulitzer, but the man himself remained a reclusive enigma. In this first and only biography of the good doctor, the authors, his close friends for almost thirty years...
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Theodor Geisel: A Portrait of the Man Who Became Dr. Seuss (Lives and Legacies Series)

By: Seuss/Pease, Donald

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 351932

ISBN: 0190614528

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Dr. Seuss's infectious rhymes, fanciful creatures, and roundabout plots not only changed the way children read but imagined the world. And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat and the Hat, these and other classics have sold hundreds of millions of copies and entertained children and adults for decades.

After graduating from Dartmouth, Theodor Geisel used his talents as an ad-man, political provocateur, and social satirist, gradually but irrevocably turning to children's books. Theodor Geisel tells the unlikely story of t...
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Read me a Story Show me a Book

By: Shirley, Betsy

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 406144

ISBN: 98347

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Language and Ideology in Children's Fiction (Language in Social Life Series)

By: Stephens, John

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 404251

ISBN: 0582070627

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Contemporary discussions of literature have paid increasing attention to the ideologies pervading texts and to the ways in which creative literature represents the individual both as subject and as agent. Language and Ideology in Children's Fiction examines these matters in narratives written for children, with a special focus on language, since meanings are primarily constituted in language.
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Disturbing the Universe: Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature

By: Trites, Roberta

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 404335

ISBN: 087745857X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The author expands the notion of the young adult novel as a coming-of-age story. She chronicles the dynamics of power and repression revealing that characters in these novels must learn to negotiate the levels of power that exist in the myriad social institution in which adolescents function.
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Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in Children's Novels

By: Trities, Roberta

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 404252

ISBN: 0877455910

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An examination of feminist themes in children's and young adult's literature covers such topics as friendship, marriage, and community.
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Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Children's Books

By: Underdown, Harold D.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: September 2011

Seller ID: 160362

ISBN: 1592577504

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Honest and precise... everything about writing for children there is to know."
--Jane Yolen, author

Here is the comprehensive guide to writing, publishing, and selling for the ever-expanding and always exciting children's market--now in a new and updated third edition.

- Includes new chapters on self-publishing and on "how to choose a how-to," plus revision and updates throughout
- Offers practical advice on getting started--and on dealing with out-of-print books
- Covers picture books, chapter books, nonfiction, middle-grade and young novels, and common formats and genr...
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Once Upon a Time: Illustrations from Fairytales, Fables, Primers, Pop-Ups, and Other Children's Books

By: Weinstein, Amy

Price: $7.00

Publisher: November 2016

Seller ID: 329284

ISBN: 1568985649

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Many of our most cherished childhood memories recall the pleasure of sitting in a big comfy chair while a doting parent reads from a lovingly illustrated picture book. "Jack and the Bean Stalk," "Little Red Riding Hood," "Robinson Crusoe"the colorful illustrations that decorated the pages of these stories remain forever captured in the minds eye.

"Once Upon a Time" reawakens the joys of childhood reading, of seeing a story come alive in words and pictures on the printed pageand in our nascent imaginations. Drawing upon the extraordinary collection of Victorian-era illustrated books amassed ...
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Feminine Subject in Children's Literature (Children's Literature and Culture)

By: Wilkie-Stibbs, Christine

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 404250

ISBN: 0415929962

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

This book builds upon and contributes to the growing academic interest in feminism within the field of children's literature studies. Christie Wilkie-Stibbs draws upon the work of Luce Irigaray, Helene Cixous, Julia Kristeva, and Jacques Lacan in her analysis of particular children's literature texts to demonstrate how a feminist analysis opens up textual possibilities that may be applied to works of children's fiction in general, extending the range of textual engagements in children's literature through the application of a new poststructural critical apparati.

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Category: About Kids Books