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  • More Words about Pictures

    Current Research on Picturebooks and Visual/Verbal Texts for Young People

    Edited by Perry Nodelman, Naomi Hamer, Mavis Reimer ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    This volume represents the current state of research on picture books and other adjacent hybrid forms of visual/verbal texts such as comics, graphic novels, and book apps, with a particular focus on texts produced for and about young people. When Perry Nodelman’s Words about Pictures: the Narrative Art of Children’s Picture Books was published almost three decades ago, it was greeted as an ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Girls, Texts, Cultures

    Edited by Clare Bradford, Mavis Reimer ...
    Series Book 23 - Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
    This book focuses on girls and girlhoods, texts for and about girls, and the cultural contexts that shape girls’ experience. It brings together scholars from girls’ studies and children’s literature, fields that have traditionally conducted their research separately, and the collaboration showcases the breadth and complexity of girl-related studies.Contributors from disciplines such as sociology, ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Such a Simple Little Tale

    Critical Responses to L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables

    Edited by Mavis Reimer ...
    New in paperback 2003. Here is a compilation of the best critical essays on this enduring classic. Selections focus on the many perspectives from which Anne of Green Gables is viewed. Is it children's literature, or does it fit a different area of literary scholarship? Each of the articles breaks new ground in the literary criticism of Montgomery's book. Also included is a comprehensive ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • Home Words

    Discourses of Children’s Literature in Canada

    Edited by Mavis Reimer ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
    The essays in Home Words explore the complexity of the idea of home through various theoretical lenses and groupings of texts. One focus of this collection is the relation between the discourses of nation, which often represent the nation as home, and the discourses of home in children’s literature, which variously picture home as a dwelling, family, town or region, psychological comfort, and a ... Read more

    $40.39 USD

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  • The Myth of Persephone in Girls' Fantasy Literature

    by Holly Blackford ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    In this book, Blackford historicizes the appeal of the Persephone myth in the nineteenth century and traces figurations of Persephone, Demeter, and Hades throughout girls’ literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She illuminates developmental patterns and anxieties in E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Nutcracker and Mouse King, Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, J. ... Read more

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  • CINDERELLA

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  • Anne of Green Gables : Free Audio Book Link

    by L.M. Montgomery ...
    Series series Angel Nova Publication
    Anne of Green Gables (1908) is a bestselling novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. Written as fiction for readers of all ages, the literary classic has been considered a children's novel since the mid-twentieth century. It recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, a young orphan girl mistakenly sent to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a middle-aged brother and sister who have a farm on Prince ... Read more

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    The story revolves around the complex relationship between three main characters: Olive Chancellor, a feminist and reformer; Basil Ransom, a conservative lawyer from Mississippi; and Verena Tarrant, a young woman with a natural talent for public speaking. Olive becomes infatuated with Verena's charismatic abilities and envisions her as a symbol of the feminist movement.Olive, driven by her strong ... Read more

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  • Memory Serves

    by Lee Maracle ...
    Series Book 13 - Writer as Critic
    Memory Serves gathers together the oratories award-winning author Lee Maracle has delivered and performed over a twenty-year period. Revised for publication, the lectures hold the features and style of oratory intrinsic to the Salish people in general and the Sto: lo in particular. From her Coast Salish perspective and with great eloquence, Maracle shares her knowledge of Sto: lo history, memory, ... Read more

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