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  • Wild Things! Acts of Mischief in Children’s Literature

    by Betsy Bird, Julie Danielson, Peter D. Sieruta ...
    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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Enriched edition. A Gothic New England Tale of Hereditary Sin, Guilt, Redemption, and a Haunted Ancestral Mansion

    by Nathaniel Hawthorne ...
    Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The House of the Seven Gables" intricately weaves a tale of guilt, retribution, and the haunting specter of the past. Set against the backdrop of a decaying, ancestral mansion in Massachusetts, the novel employs a rich, descriptive style akin to gothic romance, infusing the narrative with themes of hereditary sin and moral decay. Hawthorne's use of symbolism—epitomized by ... Read more

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  • Aesop's Fables

    by By Aesop ...
    Aesop's Fables is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with Aesop's name have descended to modern times through a number of sources. They continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in popular as well as artistic mediums.In Classical times ... Read more

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  • Tintin

    by Jean-Marc Lofficier, Randy Lofficier ...
    An updated edition just in time for Steven Spielberg's animated film The Adventures of Tintin, premiering December 23, 2011, produced by Peter Jackson and starring Daniel Craig, Simon Pegg, and Jamie Bell as TintinThe silhouette of Tintin—a young man wearing golf pants, running with a white fox terrier by his side—is easily one of the most recognizable visual icons of the modern world. In fact ... Read more

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  • The Jumblies and Other Nonsense Verses [ Illustrated ]

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    by Edward Lear ...
    * Illustrated * Author Biography * Interactive Table of Contents * Free Audiobook Download The Jumblies and Other Nonsense Verses [ Illustrated ] [ Free Audiobooks Download ] The Jumblies and Other Nonsense Verses is one children's book by Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, author, and poet, renowned today primarily for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his ... Read more

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  • Four British Fantasists

    Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper

    by Charles Butler ...
    Four British Fantasists explores the work of four of the most successful and influential fantasy writers of the generation who rose to prominence in the "second Golden Age" of children's literature in Britain: Susan Cooper, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Penelope Lively. Drawing on history, archeology, social geography, anthropology, and postcolonial theory, as well as literary criticism, ... Read more

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  • Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins

    by Giorgia Grilli ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    The Mary Poppins that many people know of today--a stern, but sweet, loveable, and reassuring British nanny--is a far cry from the character created by Pamela Lyndon Travers in the 1930's. Instead, this is the Mary Poppins reinvented by Disney in the eponymous movie. This book sheds light on the original Mary Poppins,Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins is the only full-length study that ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Understanding Children's Literature

    Edited by Peter Hunt ...
    Edited by Peter Hunt, a leading figure in the field, this book introduces the study of children’s literature, addressing theoretical questions as well as the most relevant critical approaches to the discipline.The fourteen chapters draw on insights from academic disciplines ranging from cultural and literary studies to education and psychology, and include an essay on what writers for children ... Read more

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  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin - Illustrated by Kate Greenaway

    by Robert Browning ...
    Illustrated by Kate Greenaway ...
    ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin – with Kate Greenaway illustrations’ is a tale concerning the mysterious disappearance of a great number of children from a town in Lower Saxony, Germany – originating in the Middle Ages. This particular version (in the form of a children’s poem) is penned by Robert Browning (1812 – 1889), an English playwright and lyricist whose mastery of dramatic verse made him one of ... Read more

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  • When Dreams Came True

    Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition

    by Jack Zipes ...
    For centuries fairy tales have been a powerful mode of passing cultural values onto our children, and for many these stories delight and haunt us from cradle to grave. But how have these stories become so powerful and why? Until now we have lacked a social history of the fairy tale to frame our understanding of the role it plays in our lives. With the publication of When Dreams Came True, Jack ... Read more

    $58.95 USD

  • Second-Generation Memory and Contemporary Children's Literature

    Ghost Images

    by Anastasia Ulanowicz ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    Winner of the Children’s Literature Association Book AwardThis book visits a range of textual forms including diary, novel, and picturebook to explore the relationship between second-generation memory and contemporary children’s literature. Ulanowicz argues that second-generation memory — informed by intimate family relationships, textual mediation, and technology — is characterized by vicarious, ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Childhood and Children's Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800

    by Andrea Immel, Michael Witmore ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    This volume of 14 original essays by historians and literary scholars explores childhood and children's books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800. The collection aims to reposition childhood as a compelling presence in early modern imagination--a ready emblem of innocence, mischief, and playfulness. The essays offer a wide-ranging basis for reconceptualizing the development of a separate literature ... Read more

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