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Turning the Page: Childrens Literature in Performance and the Media

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften: December 2006

Seller ID: 443099

ISBN: 3039102559

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Since the nineteenth century, children's literature has been adapted for both the stage and the screen. As the twentieth century progressed, children's books provided the material for an increasing range of new media, from radio to computer games, from television to cinema blockbuster. Although such adaptations are now recognised as a significant part of the culture of childhood and popular culture in general, little has been written about the range of products and experiences that they generate. This book brings together writers whose work offers contrasting perspectives on the process of ada...
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Hearts of lightness: The magic of children's literature

By: N/A

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Cafoscarina: January 2001

Seller ID: 472001

ISBN: 8888613188

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Golden Compass and Philosophy: God Bites the Dust (Popular Culture and Philosophy, 43)

By: N/A

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Open Court: October 2009

Seller ID: 472002

ISBN: 0812696719

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The popularity of the His Dark Materials trilogy has generated a major motion picture, a stage play, video games, and a new prequel. The series has also been highly controversial with its use of exciting adventure stories for children to comment on organized religion. These books have piqued the interest of the contributors to this fascinating volume, who use it to probe the philosophical issues that inform them. Could a golden compass, or alethiometer, really work? Can a person's soul or daemon have a mind of its own? What are the ramifications of pursuing the diabolical "intercision" ...
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The Art of Babar

By: Babar/Weber, Nicholas Fox

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Abrams: January 1989

Seller ID: 471904

ISBN: 0810918935

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

American Picturebooks from Noah's Ark to the Beast Within

By: Bader, Barbara

Price: $8.00

Seller ID: 351590

ISBN: 0027080803

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Bemelmans: The Life & Art of Madeline's Creator

By: Bemelmans/ Marciano, John

Price: $7.50

Publisher: February 2010

Seller ID: 454056

ISBN: 067088460X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

This elegantly designed and lavishly illustrated book showcases Bemelmans art and writing and illuminates the relationship between the man and his work. Bemelmans fascinating life story is told through letters, photographs, illustrations, paintings, sketches, and excerpts from both his published writings and his private journals, selected by his grandson, John Bemelmans Marciano.
Although Ludwig Bemelmans is best known for his Madeline books, his creative life ex-tended far beyond the old house in Paris. He was a novelist and a non-fiction writer, as well as a regular contributor to "The N...
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Wild Things! Acts of Mischief in Children's Literature

By: Bird, Betsy

Price: $6.50

Publisher: August 2016

Seller ID: 471235

ISBN: 0763651508

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Secret lives, scandalous turns, and some very funny surprises -- these essays by leading kids' lit bloggers take us behind the scenes of many much-loved children's books.

Told in lively and affectionate prose, this treasure trove of information for a student, librarian, parent, or anyone wondering about the post-Harry Potter children's book biz brings contemporary illumination to the warm-and-fuzzy bunny world we think we know.
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Other Alice, Story of Alice Liddell and Alice in Wonderland

By: Bjork, Christina & Eriksson, I

Price: $6.00

Publisher: September 2014

Seller ID: 282886

ISBN: 9129622425

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Advent of ALice

By: Carroll, Lewis

Price: $4.00

Seller ID: 406145

ISBN: 89723806

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Kiddie Lit: The Cultural Construction of Children's Literature in America

By: Clark, Professor Beverly Lyon

Price: $6.50

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press: August 2003

Seller ID: 448700

ISBN: 0801869005

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The popularity of the Harry Potter books among adults and the critical acclaim these young adult fantasies have received may seem like a novel literary phenomenon. In the 19th century, however, readers considered both Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as works of literature equally for children and adults; only later was the former relegated to the category of boys' books while the latter, even as it was canonized, came frequently to be regarded as unsuitable for young readers. Adults - women and men - wept over Little Women, and America's most prestigious literary journals regularly reviewed bo...
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Wild Things: Children's Culture and Ecocriticism

By: Dobrin, Sidney/Kidd, Kenneth

Price: $7.00

Seller ID: 394473

ISBN: 0814330282

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Today's young children are occupied with numerous activities taking place in settings that are isolated from nature or merely simulations of the earth's natural environment. As a result, unless they receive appropriate nature education, many children may never develop a familiarity with and positive attitudes toward the natural world that are so crucial to its preservation. Wild Things: Children's Culture, Ecocriticism examines the ways in which literature, media, and other cultural forms for young people address nature, place, and ecology.

Studies in children's culture and eco...
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In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown

By: Gary, Amy

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Flatiron Books: January 2017

Seller ID: 461152

ISBN: 1250065364

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The extraordinary life of the woman behind the beloved children's classics Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny comes alive in this fascinating biography of Margaret Wise Brown. Margaret's books have sold millions of copies all over the world, but few people know that she was at the center of a children's book publishing revolution. Her whimsy and imagination fueled a steady stream of stories, book ideas, songs, and poems and she was renowned for her prolific writing and business savvy, as well as her stunning beauty and endless thirst for adventure.

Margaret started her...
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What the Dormouse Said: Lessons for Grown-ups from Children's Books

By: Gash, Amy

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Algonquin Books: October 2004

Seller ID: 474233

ISBN: 1565124510

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This one-of-a-kind collection reminds weary adults not to lose sight of the values and virtues they learned as kids. Here are over three hundred quotations from over two hundred well-loved children's books, such as Charlotte's Web, Peter Pan, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Eloise, Sounder, Number the Stars, and Goodnight Moon, organized by topic, among them Acceptance, Goodness, Family Woes, and Growing Old. On Silence: "I assure you that you can pick up more information when you are listening than when you are talking."--E. B.White, ...
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Alternative Worlds in Fantasy Fiction (Contemporary Classics in Children's Literature)

By: Hunt, Peter,Lenz, Millicent

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group: March 2002

Seller ID: 443098

ISBN: 0826449379

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This is a critical study of Ursula le Guin, Philip Pullman and Terry Pratchett. It overviews the alworlds genre and studies the Earthsea quartet, the Discworld series and the His Dark Materials trilogy.
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Pop Goes the Weasel: The Secret Meanings Of Nursery Rhymes

By: Jack, Albert

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Penguin UK: November 2010

Seller ID: 435980

ISBN: 0141030984

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In Pop Goes the Weasel, Albert Jack explores the strange and fascinating histories behind the nursery rhymes we thought we knew, showing that their real meanings are far from innocent. Who were Mary Quite Contrary and Georgie Porgie? How could Hey Diddle Diddle offer an essential astronomy lesson? And if Ring a Ring a Roses isn't about catching the plague, then what is it really about? This ingenious book delves into the hidden meanings of the nursery rhymes and songs we all know so well and discovers all kinds of strange tales ranging from Viking raids to firewalking and from political rebell...
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Old-Time Schools and School-Books

By: Johnson, Clifton

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Dover Pubns: January 1963

Seller ID: 450766

ISBN: 0486210316

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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Mysterious Case of Nancy Drew & The Hardy Boys

By: Kismaric, Carole

Price: $5.00

Publisher: January 2012

Seller ID: 449685

ISBN: 0684846896

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys have woven their spell of teen intrigue over more than 150 million readers, beginning in 1927 and continuing today. With its marvelous text and brilliant design, The Mysterious Case of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys uncovers why the fearless young crime fighters remain beloved icons.
From The Secret of the Old Clock to Rock 'n Roll Renegades, the popular teen sleuths have deduced and detected their way through hundreds of adventures. Although the plots have changed with the times, the books have always starred the same clean teens with justice and generosity in t...
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The Art of Maurice Sendak

By: Lanes, Selma

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Abrams: September 1998

Seller ID: 455203

ISBN: 0810980630

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A book which contains many images of the well-known author/illustrator in the United States, Maurice Sendak. He is perhaps best known as the man who encouraged timid children (and parents) to venture Where the Wild Things Are, who revealed what goes on In the Night Kitchen and who proclaimed the unsung virtues of Chicken Soup with Rice. This book contains early sketches, ideas that were never developed and penned fantasies created while listening to music. There is also an accompanying personal account of the artist's life.
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Children's Literature: A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter

By: Lerer, Seth

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 349730

ISBN: 0226473015

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children's literature. Children's Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop's fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from Where the Wild Things Are to Harry Potter.
The only single-volume work to capture the rich and diverse history of children's literature in its full panorama, this extraordinary book reveals why J. R. R. Tolkien, Dr. Seuss, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Beatrix Potter, and many others, despite their divergent styles and subjec...
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Children's Literature: New Approaches

By: Lesnik-Oberstein, karin

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 404249

ISBN: 1403917388

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This book documents the experiences of 15 mothers whose children labeled learning disabled attended public schools during the last four decades. Despite the right of parents to participate in educational decision-making, these mothers describe the challenge of exercising that right. In candid and compelling narratives, mothers speak to the language of experts, conflicts in shared decision-making, devaluation of "mother knowledge," and the influence of race, class, and gender. The constancy of issues suggests that this landmark legislation may, in fact, have engendered minimal changes in the li...
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