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  • Literature as a Lens for Climate Change

    Using Narratives to Prepare the Next Generation

    Each chapter in this collection offers a practical approach for using literature to engage and empower students to confront aspects of climate crises. Educators from different backgrounds and parts of the world share their experience using novels, short stories, drama, poetry, and nonfiction to help students understand the causes and consequences of climate change as well as how they can ... Read more

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  • Justice in Young Adult Speculative Fiction

    A Cognitive Reading

    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    This book is the first to offer a justice-focused cognitive reading of modern YA speculative fiction in its narrative and filmic forms. It links the expansion of YA speculative fiction in the 20th century with the emergence of human and civil rights movements, with the communitarian revolution in conceptualizations of justice, and with spectacular advances in cognitive sciences as applied to the ... Read more

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    E. B. White's Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic

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  • Denslow's House that Jack built : Pictures Book

    A classic of children's book illustrator of pen-and-ink line drawings and watercolors by Denslow, W. W. ( William Wallace )There is a pictures book that will be occupied for children to read at bedtime or anytime.You can have this e-book for an incredibly lower price. ... Read more

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  • New Directions in Picturebook Research

    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    In this new collection, children’s literature scholars from twelve different countries contribute to the ongoing debate on the importance of picturebook research, focusing on aesthetic and cognitive aspects of picture books. Contributors take interdisciplinary approaches that integrate different disciplines such as literary studies, art history, linguistics, narratology, cognitive psychology, ... Read more

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  • Sparing the Child

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    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
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  • Eleanor Cameron

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    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
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