Author : Joan Clark
Publisher : Puffin Canada
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Beothuk Indians
ISBN : 9780143192350
While on an expedition with his father to get lumber to take back to Greenland, Thrand is captured by the native Osweet, who have taken him to replace one of their own who was killed by a Greenlander.
Author : Diana Cohn
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 22,12 MB
Release : 2002-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780811812443
In this story, inspired by the real life of Oaxacan woodcarver Manuel Jimenez, a young boy, dreams of colorful, exotic animals that he will one day carve in wood.
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Publisher : Pembroke Publishers Limited
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,75 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781551381084
Explore the lives of 83 of the most talented children's authors writing today. Told in the authors' own words, these lively biographies describe the creative process, and offer advice to today's young writers. Learn how they crate wonderful books, where they get their ideas, what their desks look like, and what their favourite books were when they were growing up.
Author : Janet Snider
Publisher : Summerhurst Books
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 36,65 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780968804919
Introduces the period of Canadian history from 900 to 1541 by discussing the explorations of the Vikings, John Cabot, and Jacques Cartier, and their encounters with the Native people of North America.
Author : R. F. Delderfield
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 18,43 MB
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1480490423
Between the wars, the lives of four neighboring English families intersect in this “highly recommended” saga by a New York Times–bestselling author (Sunday Express). In the spring of 1919, his wife’s death brings Sergeant Jim Carver home from the front. He returns to be a single parent to his seven children in a place he has never lived: Number Twenty, Manor Park Avenue, in a South London suburb. The Carvers’ neighbor Eunice Fraser, at Number Twenty-Two, has also known tragedy. Her soldier husband was killed, leaving her and her eight-year-old son, Esme, to fend for themselves. At Number Four, Edith Clegg takes in lodgers and looks after her sister, Becky, whose mind has been shattered by a past trauma. No one knows much about the Friths, at Number Seventeen, who moved to the Avenue before the war. The first book in the two-part historical series the Avenue, which also includes The Avenue Goes to War, The Dreaming Suburb takes readers into the everyday lives of these English families between World War I and World War II, as their hopes, dreams, and struggles are played out against a radically changing world.
Author : Clare Bradford
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 15,12 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0889205078
Children’s books seek to assist children to understand themselves and their world. Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children’s Literature demonstrates how settler-society texts position child readers as citizens of postcolonial nations, how they represent the colonial past to modern readers, what they propose about race relations, and how they conceptualize systems of power and government. Clare Bradford focuses on texts produced since 1980 in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand and includes picture books, novels, and films by Indigenous and non-Indigenous publishers and producers. From extensive readings, the author focuses on key works to produce a thorough analysis rather than a survey. Unsettling Narratives opens up an area of scholarship and discussion—the use of postcolonial theories—relatively new to the field of children’s literature and demonstrates that many texts recycle the colonial discourses naturalized within mainstream cultures.
Author : Mavis Reimer
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 24,47 MB
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1554587727
The essays in Home Words explore the complexity of the idea of home through various theoretical lenses and groupings of texts. One focus of this collection is the relation between the discourses of nation, which often represent the nation as home, and the discourses of home in children’s literature, which variously picture home as a dwelling, family, town or region, psychological comfort, and a place to start from and return to. These essays consider the myriad ways in which discourses of home underwrite both children’s and national literatures. Home Words reconfigures the field of Canadian children’s literature as it is usually represented by setting the study of English- and French-language texts side by side, and by paying sustained attention to the diversity of work by Canadian writers for children, including both Aboriginal peoples and racialized Canadians. It builds on the literary histories, bibliographical essays, and biographical criticism that have dominated the scholarship to date and sets out to determine and establish new directions for the study of Canadian children’s literature.
Author : Danielle Fuller
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 22,96 MB
Release : 2004-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0773572333
Prose works examined include Bernice Morgan's best-selling novel Random Passage, short stories by Helen Porter and Governor General's award-winner Joan Clark, as well as poetry by Mi'kmaq Elder Rita Joe and "People's Poet" Maxine Tynes, and the adult work of well-known children's author Sheree Fitch. Fuller demonstrates how these writers overturn regional stereotypes to present a complex and intriguing portrait of women's lives in Canada's most eastern provinces.
Author : Perry Nodelman
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 49,4 MB
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801895340
What exactly is a children’s book? How is children’s literature defined as a genre? A leading scholar presents close readings of six classic stories to answer these questions and offer a clear definition of children’s writing as a distinct literary form. Perry Nodelman begins by considering the plots, themes, and structures of six works: "The Purple Jar," Alice in Wonderland, Dr. Doolittle, Henry Huggins, The Snowy Day, and Plain City—all written for young people of varying ages in different times and places—to identify shared characteristics. He points out markers in each work that allow the adult reader to understand it as a children’s story, shedding light on ingrained adult assumptions and revealing the ways in which adult knowledge and experience remain hidden in apparently simple and innocent texts. Nodelman then engages a wide range of views of children's literature from authors, literary critics, cultural theorists, and specialists in education and information sciences. Through this informed dialogue, Nodelman develops a comprehensive theory of children's literature, exploring its commonalities and shared themes. The Hidden Adult is a focused and sophisticated analysis of children’s literature and a major contribution to the theory and criticism of the genre.
Author : Doris Seale
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 36,59 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780759107786
A Broken Flute is a book of reviews that critically evaluate children's books about Native Americans written between the early 1900s and 2003, accompanied by stories, essays and poems from its contributors. The authors critique some 600 books by more than 500 authors, arranging titles A to Z and covering pre-school, K-12 levels, and evaluations of some adult and teacher materials. This book is a valuable resource for community and educational organizations, and a key reference for public and school libraries, and Native American collections.
