Timeless Children's Novels to Refresh Our Tired Souls
Join award-winning author Mitali Perkins as she explores the promise of seven timeless children's novels for adults living in uncertain times. Through works by Louisa May Alcott, C. S. Lewis, L. M. Montgomery, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and other literary "uncles" and "aunts," Perkins unpacks wisdom to help us thrive.
"This title is a second edition of the "Keywords for Children's Literature." This work provides a list of essential terms for the study of children's literature with a discussion of each term"--
"This title is a second edition of the "Keywords for Children's Literature." This work provides a list of essential terms for the study of children's literature with a discussion of each term"--
This study is a critical contribution toward the development of global conceptions of how picturebooks present democracy to young children. Picturebooks provide an essential opportunity for children who are future leaders and citizens to gain understanding of democratic principles and practices.
Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games
Reveals the diversity crisis in children's and young adult media as not only a lack of representation, but a lack of imagination Stories provide portals into other worlds, both real and imagined. The promise of escape draws people from all backgrounds to speculative fiction, but when people of color seek passageways into the fantastic, the doors ......
This book is a series of readings of phenomenological texts and novels for children that carves out an interdisciplinary space that allows phenomenology to offer provocative literary analyses.
Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games
Reveals the diversity crisis in children's and young adult media as not only a lack of representation, but a lack of imagination Stories provide portals into other worlds, both real and imagined. The promise of escape draws people from all backgrounds to speculative fiction, but when people of color seek passageways into the fantastic, the doors ......
If you take an interest in military and national security affairs, you have probably read the works of Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, and Thucydides. But what about the books of the underappreciated military strategist Theodor Geisel, also known as Dr. Seuss? Until Dr. Seuss & National Security, the military aspect of Ted Geisel's biography and his books ......