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Children's Literature: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends provides students with high quality critical material on a selection of important classic and contemporary children's books. From Louisa May Alcott's Little Women to J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone to Melvin Burgess's Junk, each has been selected because they still find a favoured place on the bookshelves of today's children and because they are widely studied on university courses. These case studies explore children's literature across a variety of genres and ages, bringing together lively and accessible scholarly essays by leading scholars, some reprinted and others newly commissioned. The collection is supported by detailed introductory material, suggestions for further reading and a colour plate section reproducing covers and illustrations.… (más)
Read this for my Open University course 'Children's Literature'. It contains some very good and insightful essays, as well as a few which were a little tough to get through. ( )
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Children's literature is, as Peter Hunt has argued, a 'remarkable area of writing: it is one of the roots of western culture, it is enjoyed passionately by adults as well as children, and it has exercised huge talents over hundreds of years' (1994: 1).
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Although the novel itself is not postmodern - this is precluded by Reeve's focus on the protagonists' personal development - the author has used postmodernisms to construct an entertaining and compelling young adult series that not only introduces 'big ideas,' but also combines fast-paced adventure with the bildungsroman in a wonderfully imagined futuristic world.
Children's Literature: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends provides students with high quality critical material on a selection of important classic and contemporary children's books. From Louisa May Alcott's Little Women to J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone to Melvin Burgess's Junk, each has been selected because they still find a favoured place on the bookshelves of today's children and because they are widely studied on university courses. These case studies explore children's literature across a variety of genres and ages, bringing together lively and accessible scholarly essays by leading scholars, some reprinted and others newly commissioned. The collection is supported by detailed introductory material, suggestions for further reading and a colour plate section reproducing covers and illustrations.
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It contains some very good and insightful essays, as well as a few which were a little tough to get through. (