Author: Philip Turner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The adventures of three ingenious English boys and the retired naval Admiral whose interest in ancient weapons enables them to rescue an eccentric old neighbor from a blizzard and to solve the mystery of a long-missing Norman church statue.
The Grange at High Force
Author: Philip Turner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The adventures of three ingenious English boys and the retired naval Admiral whose interest in ancient weapons enables them to rescue an eccentric old neighbor from a blizzard and to solve the mystery of a long-missing Norman church statue.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The adventures of three ingenious English boys and the retired naval Admiral whose interest in ancient weapons enables them to rescue an eccentric old neighbor from a blizzard and to solve the mystery of a long-missing Norman church statue.
The Candlemass Treasure
Author: Philip Turner
Publisher: James Clarke & Co.
ISBN: 9780718826949
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Farah and Murray are half-Indian, half-Korean. A set of cryptic clues holds the key to finding their lost inheritance, stolen from Korea and hidden somewhere in England. With the help of their guardian, Mr Candlemass, they set out to unravel the clues. This book is for children aged 11 upwards.
Publisher: James Clarke & Co.
ISBN: 9780718826949
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Farah and Murray are half-Indian, half-Korean. A set of cryptic clues holds the key to finding their lost inheritance, stolen from Korea and hidden somewhere in England. With the help of their guardian, Mr Candlemass, they set out to unravel the clues. This book is for children aged 11 upwards.
A Landscape with Dragons
Author: Michael D. O'Brien
Publisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 1681490129
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The Harry Potter series of books and movies are wildly popular. Many Christians see the books as largely if not entirely harmless. Others regard them as dangerous and misleading. In his book A Landscape with Dragons, Harry Potter critic Michael O'Brien examines contemporary children's literature and finds it spiritually and morally wanting. His analysis, written before the rise of the popular Potter books and films, anticipates many of the problems Harry Potter critics point to. A Landscape with Dragons is a controversial, yet thoughtful study of what millions of young people are reading and the possible impact such reading may have on them. In this study of the pagan invasion of children's culture, O'Brien, the father of six, describes his own coming to terms with the effect it has had on his family and on most families in Western society. His analysis of the degeneration of books, films, and videos for the young is incisive and detailed. Yet his approach is not simply critical, for he suggests a number of remedies, including several tools of discernment for parents and teachers in assessing the moral content and spiritual impact of this insidious revolution. In doing so, he points the way to rediscovery of time-tested sources, and to new developments in Christian culture. If you have ever wondered why a certain children's book or film made you feel uneasy, but you couldn't figure out why, this book is just what you need. This completely revised, much expanded second edition also includes a very substantial recommended reading list of over 1,000 books for kindergarten through highschool.
Publisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 1681490129
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The Harry Potter series of books and movies are wildly popular. Many Christians see the books as largely if not entirely harmless. Others regard them as dangerous and misleading. In his book A Landscape with Dragons, Harry Potter critic Michael O'Brien examines contemporary children's literature and finds it spiritually and morally wanting. His analysis, written before the rise of the popular Potter books and films, anticipates many of the problems Harry Potter critics point to. A Landscape with Dragons is a controversial, yet thoughtful study of what millions of young people are reading and the possible impact such reading may have on them. In this study of the pagan invasion of children's culture, O'Brien, the father of six, describes his own coming to terms with the effect it has had on his family and on most families in Western society. His analysis of the degeneration of books, films, and videos for the young is incisive and detailed. Yet his approach is not simply critical, for he suggests a number of remedies, including several tools of discernment for parents and teachers in assessing the moral content and spiritual impact of this insidious revolution. In doing so, he points the way to rediscovery of time-tested sources, and to new developments in Christian culture. If you have ever wondered why a certain children's book or film made you feel uneasy, but you couldn't figure out why, this book is just what you need. This completely revised, much expanded second edition also includes a very substantial recommended reading list of over 1,000 books for kindergarten through highschool.
In the Realms of Gold
Author: Keith Barker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
"... Published to honour the 50th anniversary of the Carnegie Medal ..."--Back cover.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
"... Published to honour the 50th anniversary of the Carnegie Medal ..."--Back cover.
The Best in Children's Books
Author: Zena Sutherland
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226780573
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Reviews 1,400 books for children chosen as the best published during the years 1966-1972.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226780573
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Reviews 1,400 books for children chosen as the best published during the years 1966-1972.
The Nesbit Tradition
Author: Marcus Crouch
Publisher: Benny Hardouin
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Besprekingen volgens literaire maatstaven van die jeugdboeken die schrijven van belang acht voor de ontwikkeling van de jeugdliteratuur.
Publisher: Benny Hardouin
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Besprekingen volgens literaire maatstaven van die jeugdboeken die schrijven van belang acht voor de ontwikkeling van de jeugdliteratuur.
Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature
Author: Emer O'Sullivan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538122928
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
History is constantly evolving, and the history of children’s literature is no exception. Since the original publication of Emer O’Sullivan’s Historical Dictionary of Children’s Literature in 2010, much has happened in the field of children’s literature. New authors have come into print, new books have won awards, and new ideas have entered the discourse within children’s literature studies. Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 700 cross-referenced entries. This book will be an excellent resource for students, scholars, researchers, and anyone interested in the field of children’s literature studies.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538122928
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
History is constantly evolving, and the history of children’s literature is no exception. Since the original publication of Emer O’Sullivan’s Historical Dictionary of Children’s Literature in 2010, much has happened in the field of children’s literature. New authors have come into print, new books have won awards, and new ideas have entered the discourse within children’s literature studies. Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 700 cross-referenced entries. This book will be an excellent resource for students, scholars, researchers, and anyone interested in the field of children’s literature studies.
Chosen for Children
Author: Library Association
Publisher: London : Library Association
ISBN:
Category : Carnegie Medal
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Publisher: London : Library Association
ISBN:
Category : Carnegie Medal
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Topologies of the Classical World in Children's Fiction
Author: Claudia Nelson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192584898
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Beginning with Rudyard Kipling and Edith Nesbit and concluding with best-selling series still ongoing at the time of writing, this volume examines works of twentieth- and twenty-first-century children's literature that incorporate character types, settings, and narratives derived from the Greco-Roman past. Drawing on a cognitive poetics approach to reception studies, it argues that authors typically employ a limited and powerful set of spatial metaphors - palimpsest, map, and fractal - to organize the classical past for preteen and adolescent readers. Palimpsest texts see the past as a collection of strata in which each new era forms a layer superimposed upon a foundation laid earlier; map texts use the metaphor of the mappable journey to represent a protagonist's process of maturing while gaining knowledge of the self and/or the world; fractal texts, in which small parts of the narrative are thematically identical to the whole, present the past in a way that implies that history is infinitely repeatable. While a given text may embrace multiple metaphors in presenting the past, associations between dominant metaphors, genre, and outlook emerge from the case studies examined in each chapter, revealing remarkable thematic continuities in how the past is represented and how agency is attributed to protagonists: each model, it is suggested, uses the classical past to urge and thus perhaps to develop a particular approach to life.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192584898
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Beginning with Rudyard Kipling and Edith Nesbit and concluding with best-selling series still ongoing at the time of writing, this volume examines works of twentieth- and twenty-first-century children's literature that incorporate character types, settings, and narratives derived from the Greco-Roman past. Drawing on a cognitive poetics approach to reception studies, it argues that authors typically employ a limited and powerful set of spatial metaphors - palimpsest, map, and fractal - to organize the classical past for preteen and adolescent readers. Palimpsest texts see the past as a collection of strata in which each new era forms a layer superimposed upon a foundation laid earlier; map texts use the metaphor of the mappable journey to represent a protagonist's process of maturing while gaining knowledge of the self and/or the world; fractal texts, in which small parts of the narrative are thematically identical to the whole, present the past in a way that implies that history is infinitely repeatable. While a given text may embrace multiple metaphors in presenting the past, associations between dominant metaphors, genre, and outlook emerge from the case studies examined in each chapter, revealing remarkable thematic continuities in how the past is represented and how agency is attributed to protagonists: each model, it is suggested, uses the classical past to urge and thus perhaps to develop a particular approach to life.
Grant
Author: Jean Edward Smith
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684849275
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
In this magnificent biography, Jean Edward Smith skillfully reconciles the disparate, conflicting assessments of Ulysses S. Grant, confirming his genius as a general, but convincingly showing that Grant's presidential accomplishments were as considerable as his military victories. 40 photos.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684849275
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
In this magnificent biography, Jean Edward Smith skillfully reconciles the disparate, conflicting assessments of Ulysses S. Grant, confirming his genius as a general, but convincingly showing that Grant's presidential accomplishments were as considerable as his military victories. 40 photos.