Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Chaucer for Children: A Golden Key is an adapted version of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, the prominent English author. The book contains some of the most famous Canterbury Tales in Middle English alongside the modern translation. Additionally, the text is completed with numerous footnotes, explaining the meaning of rare words and phenomena typical of Chaucer's time.

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Author: Stephen Krensky
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416990267
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Chaucer knows bears are supposed to sleep through the winter, but he doesn't want to miss all the fun. This sweet picture book celebrates winter and friendship. Full color.

Author: Velma Bourgeois Richmond
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 078648151X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Although Geoffrey Chaucer is the major author for Middle English studies, he often receives little notice in studies of children's literature. However, there is a fascinating relationship between Chaucer and children's interests. This book examines in detail Chaucer stories retold for children--both the texts and the illustrations, which are excellent examples of the verbal and visual storytelling that are very important in children's literature. The popularity of certain Chaucer stories, their adjustment for children, and the historical, political, educational, and social contexts of the retellings reveal Victorian and Edwardian attitudes. The author also considers how retellings of Chaucer stories contributed to the traditional view of Chaucer as the Father of English and how this view of him was developed at the turn of the twentieth century as part of an expansion of general education and English studies.

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Author: Mrs. H. R. Haweis
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465597263
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 339

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A Chaucer for Children may seem to some an impossible story-book, but it is one which I have been encouraged to put together by noticing how quickly my own little boy learned and understood fragments of early English poetry. I believe that if they had the chance, many other children would do the same. I think that much of the construction and pronunciation of old English which seems stiff and obscure to grown up people, appears easy to children, whose crude language is in many ways its counterpart. The narrative in early English poetry is almost always very simply and clearly expressed, with the same kind of repetition of facts and names which, as every mother knows, is what children most require in story-telling. The emphasis which the final E gives to many words is another thing which helps to impress the sentences on the memory, the sense being often shorter than the sound. It seems but natural that every English child should know something of one who left so deep an impression on his age, and on the English tongue, that he has been called by Occleve Òthe finder of our fair language.Ó For in his day there was actually no national language, no national literature, English consisting of so many dialects, each having its own literature intelligible to comparatively few; and the Court and educated classes still adhering greatly to Norman-French for both speaking and writing. Chaucer, who wrote for the people, chose the best form of English, which was that spoken at Court, at a time when English was regaining supremacy over French; and the form he adopted laid the foundation of our present National Tongue.Ê

Author: Mike Bender
Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1984896938
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41

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A timely message of hope and comfort, this stunning picture book is the perfect treasure to share with anyone trying to navigate these uncertain times—or any life transition! Starting a book at the end may seem confusing. But the end of one thing is just the beginning of something new in this innovative and heartfelt book from #1 New York Times bestselling author Mike Bender. Accompanied by beautiful and inspiring illustrations by Diana Mayo, this story is ideal for helping kids understand how to meet life’s challenges with optimism and hope. A wonderful gift for all ages.

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Andesite Press
ISBN: 9781296542238
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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Chaucer for Children: A Golden Key is an adapted version of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, the prominent English author. The book contains some of the most famous Canterbury Tales in Middle English alongside the modern translation. Additionally, the text is completed with numerous footnotes, explaining the meaning of rare words and phenomena typical of Chaucer's time.

Author: H. Haweis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781507824764
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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A beautifully laid out-and perfectly accurate to the original-copy of one of the most famous books on how to teach Chaucer to children ever issued. Despite its name, this work is directed at explaining and teaching Chaucer-and is equally presentable to both youngsters and adults. This book, and its author, Mary Eliza Haweis (who wrote using her married name), are widely credited with reviving Chaucer's poetry in the modern world. These stories from The Canterbury Tales, along with some of Chaucer's shorter poems, were the first to be presented in their original Middle English format alongside contemporary English. In addition, the translations are supplemented by copious footnotes providing many fascinating details and background information, setting the scene, tone, and history of each of these marvelous tales. In addition to the extensive translations and retellings, the author also provided all of the illustrations: her pre-Raphaelite style drawings transforming an already classic piece of English literature into a work of art. "I believe that some knowledge of, or at least interest in, the domestic life and manners of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries, would materially help young children in their reading of English history. The political life would often be interpreted by the domestic life, and much of that time which to a child's mind forms the dryest portion of history, because so unknown, would then stand out as it really was, glorious and fascinating in its vigour and vivacity, its enthusiasm, and love of beauty and bravery. There is no clearer or safer exponent of the life of the fourteenth century, as far as he describes it, than Geoffrey Chaucer. "As to the difficulties of understanding Chaucer, they have been greatly overstated. An occasional reference to a glossary is all that is requisite; and, with a little attention to a very simple general rule, anybody with moderate intelligence and an ear for musical rhythm can enjoy the lines. "How much of the beauty and natural swing of Chaucer's poetry is lost by translation into modern English, is but too clear when that beauty is once perceived; but I thought some modernization of the old lines would help the child to catch the sense of the original more readily: for my own rendering, I can only make the apology that when I commenced my work I did not know it would be impossible to procure suitable modernized versions by eminent poets." -from the author's introduction. Included in this work are a description of Chaucer's Pilgrims, and the following tales and poems: Chaucer's Prologue The Knight's Tale The Friar's Tale The Clerk's Tale The Franklin's Tale The Pardoner's Tale Complaint of Chaucer to his Purse Two Rondeaux Virelai Good Counsel of Chaucer. This edition has been completely reset and the illustrations have been restored to better than original through modern digital enhancement.