Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Voyager Paperbacks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,83 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Fairy tales
ISBN : 9780152015053
Young, beautiful Dove Isabeau is turned into a fire-breathing dragon by her evil stepmother and is saved from the spell by her true love, Kemp Owain.
Author : Pietro Mascagni
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 16,61 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Operas
ISBN :
Author : Orson Scott Card
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 21,75 MB
Release : 2006-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765349118
Brand-new contributions to the hoard of dragon lore by five top fantasy authors. Orson Scott Card's "In the Dragon's House" is a gothic yarn about the mysterious dragon that lives in the wiring of an old house, noticed by a young boy who shares its body in dreams and feels its true size and power. Mercedes Lackey's "Joust" tells the story of a slave boy who is chosen to care for a warrior's dragon--a dragon whose secrets may be the key to his freedom. Tanith Lee's "Love in a Time of Dragons" is a fable is imbued with her signature atmosphere--Old World, moody, erotic--as a kitchen maid goes a-questing with a handsome champion to slay the local drakkor. Elizabeth Moon's "Judgment" tells the tale of a young man forced by lies to flee his village . . . into an adventure of dwarfs and dragonspawn. Michael Swanwick's "King Dragon" invokes a truly sinister and repellent creature--a being with the soul of a beast and the body of a machine--part metal, part devil . . . all merciless.
Author : Walter C Utt
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 29,48 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1836242174
An English biography of the Huguenot lawyer, preacher, diplomat and martyr Claude Brousson. It examines his life (1647-98), letters, sermons, books, and the role he played in resisting Louis XIV's persecution of the Huguenots until his death on the scaffold in 1698.
Author : Leslie Ormandy
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 31,11 MB
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 147662769X
The simplicity of children's picture books--stories told with illustrations and a few well chosen words or none at all--makes them powerful tools for teaching morals and personal integrity. Children follow the story and see the characters' behaviors on the page and interpret them in the context of their own lives. But unlike many picture books, most children's lives don't feature monsters. This collection of new essays explores the societally sanctioned behaviors imparted to children through the use of monsters and supernatural characters. Topics include monsters as instructors, the normalization of strangers or the "other," fostering gender norms, and therapeutic monsters, among others.
Author : John Daniel Stahl
Publisher :
Page : 1084 pages
File Size : 44,28 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN :
This volume combines a wide variety of primary texts with critical readings, examines the texts within the context of critical debates, explores the ways in which children's literature combines instruction and entertainment, oral and written traditions, words and pictures, fantasy and realism, classics and adaptations, and perspectives on childhood and adult life. It spans a wide range of literary periods, genres, and cultural traditions, and examines how these overlapping forms and genres, diverse influences, and evolving values and attitudes towards children and childhood have shaped the body of literature written for young adults and children.
Author : Jo Worthy
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 17,49 MB
Release : 2001-04-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781572306479
This comprehensive text presents a core of research-based approaches to engaging, effective literacy instruction in the middle grades. Methods and materials are described to foster reading skills, content mastery, and writing in different formats and for different purposes. The authors emphasize the need to tailor instruction to the needs, strengths, skill levels, and interests of diverse students. They offer recommendations for reading lists that incorporate critically acclaimed fiction and nonfiction, popular series books, and other student-friendly materials. Special features include case studies, examples of teaching and assessment activities, and commentary from middle-school teachers and students. Appendices contain reproducible forms and lists of recommended reading materials and resources.
Author : Roberta L. Sejnost
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 10,68 MB
Release : 2006-08-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 1452209367
This invaluable guide offers step-by-step, research-based strategies that will help you increase your students' reading comprehension, strengthen writing skills, and build vocabulary across content areas.
Author : Lucy Calkins
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 15,46 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN :
Provides comprehensive and accessible leveled lists and guides for 1,200 children's trade books for kindergarten through 6th grade to help teachers build classroom libraries.
Author : Donald Haase
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 12,18 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814322086
"The essays address the reception of the Grimms' texts by their readers; the dynamics between Grimms' collection and its earliest audiences; and aspects of the literary, philosophical, creative, and oral reception of the tales, illuminating how writers, philosophers, artists, and storytellers have responded to, reacted to, and revised the stories, thus shedding light on the ways in which past and contemporary transmitters of culture have understood and passed on the Grimms' tales."--BOOK JACKET.
