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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"children's books"”.
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Publishing and marketing Lebanese children's books in the Arab world
… how and why do the publishing and marketing of children’s books in the Arabic-speaking World differ fundamentally from publishing and marketing in larger western children’s books markets? In 2003, the Arab Human Development Report concluded that the Arab book is a “threatened species” (Rogan, …
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An Examination of Elementary Learners' Transactions with Diverse Children's Books
… are shaped by prior, lived experiences, and books provide students with virtual experiences of diversity, which can lead to transformative possibilities. This study explored: (1) How can children's picture books about autism be used to create transformative opportunities in an elementary …
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(Re) Constructing the Subject: A Strategic Model for Acquisition of Africana Liberation Through Children's Books
Children of African descent gather information about the world from various sources such as school, television, toys, and books. This research focuses specifically on books as an educational tool. The dominant focus of this work is to evaluate the ideas communicated to black children in books. …
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Subject index to one hundred children's books for use in religious education (grades i-ix)
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1946. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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What Is a Wolf? The Construction of Social, Cultural, and Scientific Knowledge in Children's Books
… representations of symbolic and real wolves in children's books published in Europe and North America from the late-fifteenth-century to the present, fills these gaps. Focusing on how visual images impart social, cultural, and scientific information about both wolves and humans, I analyze over …
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Cracked Windows, Broken Mirrors, and Closed Doors: A Critical Content Analysis of African American Children's Books
… of culturally responsive African American children’s books. Culturally responsive literature provides a positive influence on children of all races and researchers have indicated that picturebooks that are diverse and culturally responsive can affirm cultural and social identities (Crowley, …
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Library media specialists are not ready to "radically change:" the use of radical change children's books in New Jersey school media centers
… students, (b) determine how LMSs were using books with Radical Change characteristics; and (c) determine if LMSs were not using books with Radical Change characteristics, what were the reasons why they were not using or did not own the books. From the results of the questionnaire, the …
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Selection of Children's Books for Public and School Libraries: Examination of the Books by the Local Librarian as a Method of Selection
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T17:49:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7915321.pdf: 6347053 bytes, checksum: dcb992ca6ad891ec43742e86ea8a2efb (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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Reading Children's and Adolescent Literature in Three University Second-Semester Spanish Courses: An Action Research Study
… study was to explore the possibilities of using children's and adolescent literature with lower-level students of Spanish. The study investigated second-semester students' perceptions of their experiences reading children's and adolescent literature in Spanish and the relevance of reading this …
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Literature at the Primary Level Depicting a Positive Image of the Elderly: A Bibliography
… study to compose a bibliography of primary level books and/or stories that depict a positive image of the elderly. Various procedures were used to gather selections of reading material for primary level children which portray this image. The following were the methods used for this compilation. …
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The Representation of the Environment in Children's Literature
… examines a purposeful census of the best selling children's books for 0-8 year olds in the United States in 2003. This cross-sectional study of these social artifacts evaluates the extent to which the ideologies of the environmental movement have been inculcated into culture. It evaluates how the …
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The Republic and Its Children: French Children's Literature, 1855--1900
… publishers produced significant numbers of children's books which made their way into the majority of middle-class French homes. Significantly, as a result of the traumatic events of 1870-1871 -- military defeat by Prussia and the Paris Commune -- when the nation of France suffered military, …
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"Reading Is Meant For Training": Maps, Nation, and Empire In British Children's Literature, 1800-1940
… maps have long been common in the field of children's literature, yet they have received relatively little scholarly attention. In this study, I consider three sets of maps from children's books in relation to their depiction of the British Empire. I begin with geography primers of the early …
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Representations of Transracial Korean *Adoption in Children's Literature
… of transracial Korean adoption in American children's literature published from 1955 to 2007. Since the 1950s, more than 200,000 Korean children have been sent from South Korea to North America and Europe to be adopted into previously all-white families. Over 110,000 were adopted into the …
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Re-working Novelistic Sentiment: Barbauld, Smith, Edgeworth, and the Politics of Children's Fiction
… and novel conventions, their writings for children and for adults tend to be studied separately. Indeed, despite each writer's familiarity with the others' work, these figures are rarely discussed together. I argue that studying these authors' cross-generic works using a comparative …
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Observation on foreign children's literature in Taiwan: The future of local children's literature in Taiwan
… to fade, while the increasing number of the children of foreign brides will play an important role in the future. On the other hand, culture from Japan and the West keep influencing Taiwan. We mix all resources together and hope to keep our culture growing in this rich land.</p> <p>The thesis …
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Opera Delaware's Family Opera Theatre
… North America conducts some form of outreach to children with the intent to educate and develop young audiences. By examining the forty-year history of Opera Delaware's Family Opera Theatre, the biography of its most influential director, Evelyn Swensson, and four children's operas commissioned …
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Fantasy, morality and ideology: a comparative study of C.S.Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials
This thesis begins with an introduction to children's literature, looking at its history in order to contextualise the texts under examination, and the specific arguments surrounding the study of children's books. It then looks closely at the complicated issue of ideology, specifically with regards …
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"Struggles to Become ""Americans"": Historical and Contemporary Experiences of Asian Pacific American Immigrants in Children's and Young Adult Fiction, 1945--1999"
Two hundred and seventy titles of children's fiction books were identified as books about Asian Pacific Americans that were published between 1945 and 1999. Although the publishing trends demonstrate an increase in quantity and improvement in quality, the number of books published is extremely …
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