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  • Let's Go Fishing!

    A Book for Beginners

    Illustrated by Brian W. Payne ...
    The ideal companion to a child's first tackle set, and a useful reference for years to follow.Ages 8 and up ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • From Mythic to Linear

    Time in Children's Literature

    Now available in paperback! In this radically new approach to text typology, Maria Nikolajeva examines the depiction of time in literature for children. Nikolajeva identifies a continuum of texts ranging from those that depict non-linear time, typical of archaic, or mythical, thought, to those that express linearity, typical of contemporary mainstream literature. The author argues that literature ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Willy Whitefeather's Outdoor Survival Handbook for Kids

    From treating a bee sting to building an overnight shelter, kids will gain the knowledge and confidence they need to survive outdoors.All ages ... Read more

    $7.99 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

    $62.99 USD

  • A Kids' Guide to Building Forts

    by Tom Birdseye ...
    An entertaining guide for building safe and fun forts—outside, inside, at the beach, and in snow country.Ages 8-14 ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Discover Life Through the Ages

    A Carnegie Activity Book

    Series series Carnegie Museum Discovery Series
    An engrossing mix of games, brainteasers, and stories makes learning the basics of natural science and history fun.Ages 8-12 ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Willy Whitefeather's River Book for Kids

    A grandfather teaches a young Cherokee how to avoid the hard knocks of the river.All ages ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Written for Children

    An Outline of English-Language Children's Literature

    This revised and updated edition provides children's and young adult librarians, teachers, literature classes, and library school classes with an authoritative history and analysis of the best British and American children's literature through 1994, with a new 2003 postscript including such recent phenomenons as J.K.Rowling and Philip Pullman. Written for Children traces the development of ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Disturbing the Universe

    Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature

    The Young Adult novel is ordinarily characterized as a coming-of-age story, in which the narrative revolves around the individual growth and maturation of a character, but Roberta Trites expands this notion by chronicling the dynamics of power and repression that weave their way through YA books. Characters in these novels must learn to negotiate the levels of power that exist in the myriad social ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • American Indian Stereotypes in the World of Children

    A Reader and Bibliography

    The world of contemporary American infants and young children is saturated with inappropriate images of American Indians. American Indian Stereotypes in the World of Children reveals and discusses these images and cultural stereotypes through writings like Kathy Kerner's previously unpublished essay on Thanksgiving and an essay by Dr. Cornell Pewewardy on Disney's Pocahontas film. This edition ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition (The Annotated Books)

    by Lewis Carroll ...
    Series Book 0 - The Annotated Books
    The culmination of a lifetime of scholarship, The Annotated Alice is a landmark event in the rich history of Lewis Carroll and cause to celebrate the remarkable career of Martin Gardner.For over half a century, Martin Gardner has established himself as one of the world's leading authorities on Lewis Carroll. His Annotated Alice, first published in 1959, has over half a million copies in print ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Owl, The Raven, and the Dove

    The Religious Meaning of the Grimms' Magic Fairy Tales

    The fairy tales collected by the brothers Grimm are among the best known and most widely-read stories in western literature. In recent years commentators such as Bruno Bettelheim have, usually from a psychological perspective, pondered the underlying meaning of the stories, why children are so enthralled by them, and what effect they have on the the best-known tales (Hansel and Gretel, Little Red ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Rhetoric of Character in Children's Literature

    Now available in paperback! Until now, there was no theoretical research of character in children's fiction and very few comprehensive theoretical studies of literary characters in general. In her latest intellectual foray, the author of From Mythic to Linear ponders the art of characterization. Through a variety of critical perspectives, she uncovers the essential differences between story ('what ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Childs Moral Imagination

    by Vigen Guroian ...
    As the popularity of William Bennetts Book of Virtues attests, parents are turning more and more to childrens literature to help instill values in their kids. Now, in this elegantly written and passionate book, Vigen Guroian provides the perfect complement to books such as Bennetts, offering parents and teachers a much-needed roadmap to some of our finest childrens stories. Guroian illuminates the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Empire's Children

    Empire and Imperialism in Classic British Children's Books

    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    Empire's Children looks at works at by Rudyard Kipling, Frances Hodgson Burnett, E. Nesbit, Hugh Lofting, A.A. Milne, and Arthur Ransome for the ways these writers consciously and unconsciously used the metaphors of empire in their writing for children. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • A Charmed Life

    The Spirituality of Potterworld

    In this enlightening look at J.K. Rowling's phenomenal bestsellers, a Christian minister illuminates the powerful, positive message Harry Potter and his magical world bring to readers of all ages.Potter fever has swept the world and shows no signs of abating. The books and the recent movie have attracted millions of followers and fans, all of them eagerly awaiting the next installments. Along with ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Xenophon And The History Of His Times

    by John Dillery ...
    Xenophon and the History of his Times examines Xenophon's longer historical works, the Hellenica and the Anabasis. Dillery considers how far these texts reflect the Greek intellectual world of the fourth and fifth centuries B.C., rather than focusing on the traditional question of how accurate they are as histories. Through analysis of the complete corpus of Xenophon's work, and the writings of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Boys and Girls Forever

    Children's Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter

    by Alison Lurie ...
    Are some of the world's most talented children's book authors essentially children themselves? In this engaging series of essays, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alison Lurie considers this theory, exploring children's classics from many eras and relating them to the authors who wrote them, including Little Women author Louisa May Alcott and Wizard of Oz author Frank Baum, as well as Dr. Seuss and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Science of Harry Potter

    How Magic Really Works

    Behind the magic of Harry Potter—a witty and illuminating look at the scientific principles, theories, and assumptions of the boy wizard's world, newly come to life again in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and the upcoming film Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of GrindelwaldCan Fluffy the three-headed dog be explained by advances in molecular biology? Could the discovery of cosmic "gravity-shielding ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Stories and Tales

    Series series Routledge Classics
    A true classic of Western literature, Stories and Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, arguably the most notable children's writer of all, has delighted young and old for generations. This unique collection was first translated for George Routledge over 130 years ago. Completely reset, but preserving the original, beautiful illustrations by A.W. Bayes, engraved by the masters of Victorian book ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Brown Gold

    Milestones of African American Children's Picture Books, 1845-2002

    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    Brown Gold is a compelling history and analysis of African-American children's picturebooks from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. At the turn of the nineteenth century, good children's books about black life were hard to find — if, indeed, young black readers and their parents could even gain entry into the bookstores and libraries. But today, in the "Golden Age" of African-American ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Making of the Modern Child

    Children's Literature in the Late Eighteenth Century

    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    This book explores how the concept of childhood in the late-18th century was constructed through the ideological work performed by children's literature, as well as pedagogical writing and medical literature of the era. Andrew O'Malley ties the evolution of the idea of "the child" to the growth of the middle class, which used the figure of the child as a symbol in its various calls for social ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Regendering the School Story

    Sassy Sissies and Tattling Tomboys

    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    In 18th through 20th-century British and American literature, school stories always play out the power relationships between adult and child. They also play out gender relationships, especially when females are excluded, although most histories of the genre ignore the unusual novels that probe the gendering of school stories. When the occasional man wrote about girls schools-as Charles Lamb and H. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature

    by Peter Hunt ...
    Children's literature continues to be one of the most rapidly expanding and exciting of interdisciplinary academic studies, of interest to anyone concerned with literature, education, internationalism, childhood or culture in general. The second edition of Peter Hunt's bestselling International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature offers comprehensive coverage of the subject across the ... Read more

    $700.99 USD