Children's novels and the movies /

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Waking Sleeping Beauty : the feminist voices in children's novels / by Trites, Roberta Seelinger, 1962-

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Steeped in stories : timeless children's novels to refresh our tired souls / by Perkins, Mitali

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The Nesbit tradition; the children's novel in England, 1945-1970. by Crouch, Marcus

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Thursday's child : trends and patterns in contemporary children's literature by Egoff, Sheila A.

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Writing fiction for children : stories only you can tell by Morris, Judy K.

Table of Contents: “…Interlude: Setting and Contemporary Children's Novels…”


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Chaos theory in psychology

Table of Contents: “…Stability and Variability: The Geometry of Children's Novel-Word Interpretations /…”


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Beauty, brains, and brawn : the construction of gender in children's literature

Table of Contents: “…Louie -- Author profile : Alice Mead -- Author profile : Pat Mora -- Parent characters in children's novels : lessons learned / Sylvia M. Vardell -- Parallels, polarities, and intersections : gender and religion in children's books / Ann Trousdale -- Why do educators need a political agenda on gender? …”


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Painted desert, green shade : essays on contemporary writers of fiction for children and young adults by Rees, David, 1936-1993

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Treasure islands : studies in children's literature

Table of Contents: “…Creating wildmen in one's own image: maroons, Darwin and the question of humanity / Kate Hebblethwaite -- This treasured island: Irish nationalist propaganda aimed at children and youth, 1910-16 / Marnie Hay -- 'There is an isle in the western ocean': the Christian Brothers, Our Boys and Catholic-nationalist ideology / Michael Flanagan -- 'The island come true': Peter Pan, Wild Cat Island, and the lure of the real / Anna Bogen -- New kinds of treasure: changes in island adventure in Britain and the USA in the mid-twentieth century / Clive Barnes -- Islands and I-lands in Enid Blyton / David Rudd -- The contemporary relevance of Enid Blyton (1897-1968) / Jane O'Hanlon -- 'This island's mine ... which thou tak'st from me': textual 'ownership' in some recent young adult fiction / Robert Dunbar -- Australia, island's edge: the sea in Gary Crew's picture books / Elizabeth Parsons -- Gods, heroes, saints and villains of the Celtic other-world in modern retellings of old Irish tales / Maire Ui Mhaicin -- Tresured islands: the literary uses of the island setting in some Scottish children's novels / Maureen A. Farrell -- Contrasting cinematic versions of the conflict between tradition and modernity in Into the West and Whale Rider / Celia Keenan -- Bridging gaps, waters abating: C.S. …”


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Cultural conformity in books for children : further readings in racism

Table of Contents: “…Arciniega -- Cultural pluralism and books for children / Council on Interracial Books for Children -- American Indian authors for young readers / Mary Gloyne Byler -- That's one good Indian: unacceptable images in children's novels / Laura Herbst -- Academic treatment of the Indian in public school texts and literature / R. …”


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Beyond Babar : the European tradition in children's literature

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Frances Hodgson Burnett : The secret garden, A little princess, Little Lord Fauntleroy by Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924

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From mythic to linear : time in children's literature by Nikolajeva, Maria

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The complete adventures of Peter Pan by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937

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The pirates' mixed-up voyage : dark doings in the Thousand Islands by Mahy, Margaret, 1936-2012

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Wild Horse Annie and the last of the mustangs : the life of Velma Johnston by Cruise, David, 1950-

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A monster calls

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