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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"children's book"”.
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Victorian Children's Book Illustrations
… to shift, changes that were reflected in the children’s book illustrations of Randolph Caldecott, Henry J. Ford, and Beatrix Potter. This time period was considered the golden age of children’s book illustrations due to a large boom in both number and quality available. These children’s books …
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Beyond the Monomyth: Jung and the Children's Book in the Adult Imagination
Abstract: ‘Beyond the Monomyth: Jung and the Children’s Book in the Adult Imagination’, Andrew Peter McCormack I developed my interest in Jungian theory and children’s literature when I began investigating literature which embeds the children’s book within adult storyworlds. My meta-level analysis …
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Lois Lenski, A Friend to Children: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of a Children's Book Author
… otherwise contributed to more than one hundred books for children and preteens. This study focuses on Lenski’s regional books for preteens, novels that Lenski claimed were written from real life. Using interpretive narrative analysis, this study evaluates two of Lenski’s regional novels: …
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The Therapeutic Benefits of Children’s Literature: Responding Through Making Art and Writing Stories
<p>This study explores the use of a children's book followed by the application of the Draw A Story (DAS) art therapy assessment tool by Rawley Silver (1988). The study takes place in three elementary school classrooms located in the greater Bay Area region. Previous literature addresses the …
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Writing Journey
Corporate writing, screenplay, and children's book.
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Lily Learns Her Lesson
<p>A children's book for teaching the writing process to elementary students as part of their curriculum. Includes lesson plans.</p>
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Creating a Chapter Book: The Evolution of Foxy and the Grump
… of nonfiction to create a potentially marketable children's novel and to document the process she followed in the development and completion of that book. Resulting from this project is the author's first children's book, a "chapter book” entitled Foxy and the Grump. Topics addressed in this …
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A Trail of Stones and Breadcrumbs: Evaluating Folktales Published for Youth in the 20th Century, 1905--2000
… youth in the twentieth century in relation to children's librarians' historical concerns and changing perceptions of cultural hegemony and authority. The synthesis of previously unrelated primary source materials and other emblematic professional publications provides an overview of the …
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What Georgia's Middle Graders are Reading: An Analysis of Selected Georgia Book Award Recipients
<p>This project is a thematic analysis of thirty books nominated for the Georgia Children's Book Award Program. Books selected for analysis include the annual winners and one other book, randomly selected, from each year since the program began in 1969. A brief history of the program and the rules …
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Livro infantil: elementos que despertam na criança o interesse pela leitura
… ways to encourage the child's contact with the book . This work was concerned to understand the elements that arouse the interest of the child to choose the book you will buy or read. We are introducing the categories in which this support can be found , showing images that best identify those …
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Josephine, Josie, Jo
<p>This work of feminist children’s literature was inspired by Aimee Carrillo Rowe’s article, “Be Longing: Toward a Feminist Politics of Relation.” Rowe’s theory of relational belonging suggests that our identities are made in relation to the individual people we come into contact with as well as …
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Shared Stress: Positive and Negative Transference of Anxious Behaviors Between Parent and Child
… most highly reported physiological struggles of children and adolescents. Children of anxious parents are of particular concern, as they have been found to be up to five times more likely to suffer from an anxiety disorder than a child with nonanxious parents. Previous studies have found there to …
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Teaching and Learning about Diverse Cultures in Africa
… activities, and a critical analysis of a children's book. Teachers in Phase Two explained their methods and rationale for teaching about diverse cultures in Africa as well as difficulties they have encountered in this area. Student and teacher responses were analyzed separately for …
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The Phenomenal <em>Harry Potter</em> Books: A Cultural Study of Corporate Influence on Reading Instruction and Image-Making
… influence that the publisher has on both the book's content and the reading instructional approach presented to children in the classroom venue through the instructional guides produced specifically to accompany the books.</p> <p>Textual analyses were performed on the four Harry Potter books …
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Do Parents' Literacy Beliefs and Home Literacy Experiences Relate to Children's Literacy Skills?
… literacy beliefs, home literacy experiences, and children's literacy skills. Forty-three children, who attended a university preschool, and their parents participated in the study. Parents' literacy beliefs and the home literacy experience, namely shared book reading, were examined through a …
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National consciousness in Postcolonial Nigerian children's literature
… project highlights the role of locally produced children's written literature for ages six to fourteen in postcolonial Nigeria as a catalyst for national transformation in the wake of colonial rule. My objective is to reveal the perceived possibilities and pitfalls contained in Nigerian …
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O era uma vez na ilustração: linguagem e plasticidade no universo gráfico de Rui de Oliveira
… of the imagetic narrative that is processed in children's book illustrations, having as field of study the graphic production by Rui de Oliveira. Taking his illustrations as starting point, the figurative field has been studied, in which two main streams were observed: a relationship with the …
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'Ze willen grieven eten'-- teorie en praktyk van die vertaling van 'n Nederlandse kinderboek
… experienced in the translation of a Dutch children's book (Otje by Annie M.G. Schmidt) into Afrikaans, classifying these problems and examining the solutions arrived at. After reflection on the type of translation most suitable for child readers, the translation itself was done mainly in …
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Children's responses to Maurice Sendak's "Where the wild things are" : a study conducted at a Cape Town public library
… under scrutiny is that a child's responses to a children's book are likely to be influenced to a significant degree by his stage of cognitive development. A second major premise is that domains of human development and existence other than the cognitive (such as the emotional, physical and …
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