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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"children's fiction"”.
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Culture and identity in Scottish children's fiction
British Children’s Literature has a long and distinguished history. In fact it could be argued that in the late seventeenth and increasingly in the eighteenth century, Britain took the lead in developing a new kind of literature especially designed for children. The Puritans were the first to …
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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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`I had imagined myself into being': storytelling girls in children's fiction from the beginning and end of the twentieth century
… is a text-based study of storytelling girls in children's fiction from the beginning and end of the twentieth century, providing close readings of three texts from each of these periods. Books in Part One are drawn from the canon of classic girls' stories: Ethel Turner's Seven Little Australians …
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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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Adventures on Windswept Islands: Children's Literature, Adolescence, and the Possibilities of Irish Culture in the Work of Eilís Dillon.
… will explore the multifaceted position of the fictional child, the reader and adult as they each encounter exhilarating adventure on Dillon's windswept islands. The connection between the fictional child in, and the child reader of, the world of Eilís Dillon's Irish children's novels …
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Creating a Chapter Book: The Evolution of Foxy and the Grump
… this study was for an experienced writer 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 …
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Embodiment and agency in digital reading: Preschoolers making meaning with literary apps
This dissertation investigates meaning-making in children’s joint-reading transactions with literary apps. The analysis of meaning-making focuses on embodiment as a central aspect of literary app’s texts and their reading and on children’s negotiation of agency in the act of joint-reading. …