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Children's Fantasy Literature

Author : Michael Levy

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : pages

File Size : 30,5 MB

Release : 2016-04-16

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1316483134

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Fantasy has been an important and much-loved part of children's literature for hundreds of years, yet relatively little has been written about it. Children's Fantasy Literature traces the development of the tradition of the children's fantastic - fictions specifically written for children and fictions appropriated by them - from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century, examining the work of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, C. S. Lewis, Roald Dahl, J. K. Rowling and others from across the English-speaking world. The volume considers changing views on both the nature of the child and on the appropriateness of fantasy for the child reader, the role of children's fantasy literature in helping to develop the imagination, and its complex interactions with issues of class, politics and gender. The text analyses hundreds of works of fiction, placing each in its appropriate context within the tradition of fantasy literature.





The Green Planet

Author : Amby Cooper

Publisher : Independently Published

Page : 32 pages

File Size : 35,28 MB

Release : 2019-05-23

Category :

ISBN : 9781099742170

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A Nice Fantasy Book for Kids of All Ages In this short story you will learn that no matter how unique and weird you are, there always exists a world made just for you. You are special, and even if people don't tell you that very often, don't forget to tell it to yourself. Just because they stopped dreaming doesn't mean you should get lost in their ideas of life. Your youth and your moment right now is all you have, so don't be afraid to chase the wildest dream you could possibly have. Jake is a very brave boy who never gave up on himself, and because he never stopped believing in his own imagination, he was given a ride of his lifetime. Each moment is a symbol of his inner hero's desire. He is a creator of his own world, but he doesn't know it because that would spoil the show away. He doesn't give up, even when everybody tells him to. Jake believes in himself and his idea of life enough that he gets to live it truly. Did you ever look at night's stars and asked yourself if you would like to explore the space? What is out there, are we alone or are there more weird creatures like us outside of Earth? Are they maybe even watching us, just waiting for someone who is truly ready to dance with them? Or are they maybe even something which is hidden in a body or a mind of a young boy. Somebody, who exists in two places at the same time. You are going to encounter so many questions that need no answers, and you will see what waits for you if you never give up on your true self!



Fantasy Literature for Children and Young Adults

Author : Pamela S. Gates

Publisher : Scarecrow Press

Page : 180 pages

File Size : 27,86 MB

Release : 2003

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9780810846371

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Fantasy conjures up images of witches, fairies, dark woods, magic wands and spells, time travel, ghosts, and dragons. Each of us defines fantasy in a personal way, based on our life stories, experiences, hopes, dreams, and fears. Fantasy Literature for Children and Young Adults, helps teachers and students of literature to develop their own understandings of this broad genre in order to evaluate and promote the joy of fantasy in their classrooms. An excellent teaching tool, the discussions are organized around three categories of fantasy literature, including fairy/folktale; mixed fantasy (which includes journey, transformation, talking animal, and magic); and heroic-ethical; and they are supported by well-chosen examples of representative authors, critics, and theorists. With the assumption that the reader has no special knowledge of fantasy literature but has some previous exposure to the study of literature for children and young adults, this book focuses on reviewing texts that illustrate particular types of fantasy literature. The authors have an extensive knowledge of both classic and contemporary children's and YA titles, and they offer many insightful observations and details that make a book a particularly good classroom choice. Literature allows us to discuss controversial issues without making judgments; it allows us the opportunity to "experience" another time and space by providing a new lens through which to view; and it offers us a multitude of ways to come to appreciate and embrace the world of fantasy. Fantasy Literature for Children and Young Adults will help teachers and other readers to deepen their knowledge, appreciation, and pedagogical understandings of fantasy literature.



Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy

Author : Dimitra Fimi

Publisher : Springer

Page : 311 pages

File Size : 39,75 MB

Release : 2017-03-06

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1137552824

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Runner-up of the Katherine Briggs Folklore Award 2017 Winner of the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth & Fantasy Studies 2019 This book examines the creative uses of “Celtic” myth in contemporary fantasy written for children or young adults from the 1960s to the 2000s. Its scope ranges from classic children’s fantasies such as Lloyd Alexander’s The Chronicles of Prydain and Alan Garner’s The Owl Service, to some of the most recent, award-winning fantasy authors of the last decade, such as Kate Thompson (The New Policeman) and Catherine Fisher (Darkhenge). The book focuses on the ways these fantasy works have appropriated and adapted Irish and Welsh medieval literature in order to highlight different perceptions of “Celticity.” The term “Celtic” itself is interrogated in light of recent debates in Celtic studies, in order to explore a fictional representation of a national past that is often romanticized and political.



Fantasy and the Real World in British Children's Literature

Author : Caroline Webb

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 190 pages

File Size : 35,91 MB

Release : 2014-09-15

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1317935748

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This study examines the children’s books of three extraordinary British writers—J.K. Rowling, Diana Wynne Jones, and Terry Pratchett—and investigates their sophisticated use of narrative strategies not only to engage children in reading, but to educate them into becoming mature readers and indeed individuals. The book demonstrates how in quite different ways these writers establish reader expectations by drawing on conventions in existing genres only to subvert those expectations. Their strategies lead young readers to evaluate for themselves both the power of story to shape our understanding of the world and to develop a sense of identity and agency. Rowling, Jones, and Pratchett provide their readers with fantasies that are pleasurable and imaginative, but far from encouraging escape from reality, they convey important lessons about the complexities and challenges of the real world—and how these may be faced and solved. All three writers deploy the tropes and imaginative possibilities of fantasy to disturb, challenge, and enlarge the world of their readers.



The Enchanted Castle (Illustrated)

Author : Edith Nesbit

Publisher : Good Press

Page : 210 pages

File Size : 36,92 MB

Release : 2024-01-15

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN :

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This carefully crafted ebook: "The Enchanted Castle (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Enchanted Castle is a country estate in the West Country seen through the eyes of three children – Gerald, James and Kathleen, who discover it while exploring during the school holidays. The lake, groves and marble statues, with white towers and turrets in the distance, make a fairy-tale setting, and then in the middle of the maze in the rose garden they find a sleeping fairy-tale princess. Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) was the author of world famous books for children - the tales of fantastical adventures, journeys back in time and travel to magical worlds.



Five Children and It

Author : Edith Nesbit

Publisher :

Page : 106 pages

File Size : 28,60 MB

Release : 2019-06-03

Category :

ISBN : 9781071486658

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To Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother, the house in the country promises a summer of freedom and play. But when they accidently uncover an accident Psammead--or Sand-fairy--who has the power to make wishes come true, they find themselves having the holiday of a lifetime, sharing one thrilling adventure after another.Asleep since dinosaurs roamed the earth, the ill-tempered, odd--looking Psammead --with his spider-shaped body, bat's ears, and snail's eyes --grudgingly agrees to grant the children one wish per day. Soon, though the children discover that their wishes have a tendancy to turn out quite differnetly than expected. Whatever they wish whether it's to fly like a bird, live in a mighty castle, or have an immense fortune --something goes terribly wrong, hilariously wrong.Then an accidental wish has horrible consequences, and the children are faced with a difficult choice: to let an innoncent manbe charged with a crime or to lose for all time their gift of magical wishes. Five Children and It is one of E. Nesbit's most beloved tales of enchantment.



The Phoenix and the Carpet

Author : E. Nesbit

Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Page : 148 pages

File Size : 46,42 MB

Release : 2016-09-24

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ISBN : 9781539060796

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The Phoenix and the Carpet By E. Nesbit The Phoenix and the Carpet is a fantasy novel for children, written by E. Nesbit and first published in 1904. It is the second in a trilogy of novels that begins with Five Children and It (1902), and follows the adventures of the same five children: Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and the Lamb. This middle volume of the trilogy that begins with Five Children and It and concludes with The Story of the Amulet, and deviates somewhat from the other two in that the Psammead is mentioned only briefly, and in this volume the five children live with both their parents in the family home in London. In both the other volumes, circumstances have forced the children to spend protracted periods away from their home and their father. A continuing theme throughout The Phoenix and the Carpet is the ancient element of fire. The story begins shortly before November 5, celebrated in Britain as Guy Fawkes Night. The four children have accumulated a small hoard of fireworks for the night, but they are too impatient to wait until November 5 to light them, so they set off a few samples in the nursery. This results in the fire that destroys the carpet. Their parents purchase a second-hand carpet which is found to contain an egg that emits a phosphorescent glow. The children accidentally knock this egg into the fire: it hatches, revealing a golden Phoenix who speaks perfect English.



Time's Children

Author : D B Jackson

Publisher : Watkins Media Limited

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 13,83 MB

Release : 2018-10-02

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0857667912

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A time traveler trapped in a violent past must protect the orphaned child of a murdered sovereign and find a way home, in this astonishing epic fantasy novel. Fifteen year-old Tobias Doljan, a Walker trained to travel through time, is called to serve at the court of Daerjen. The sovereign, Mearlan IV, wants him to Walk back fourteen years, to prevent a devastating war which will destroy all of Islevale. Even though the journey will double Tobias' age, he agrees. But he arrives to discover Mearlan has already been assassinated, and his court destroyed. The only survivor is the infant princess, Sofya. Still a boy inside his newly adult body, Tobias must find a way to protect the princess from assassins, and build himself a future... in the past. File Under: Fantasy [ Time Demons | They See Me Walkin' | Young Inside | Disturbing Allies ]