Where texts and children meet

Where texts and children meet / edited by Eve Bearne and Victor Watson.

It is impossible to reflect upon children's books without considering the children who read them. Where Texts and Children Meet explores the ways in which children make meaning of the various texts they meet both in and out of school. Eve Bearne and Victor Watson have brought together chapters...

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Other Authors: Bearne, Eve, 1943-, Watson, Victor
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Subjects:
Children's literature, English > History and criticism.
Children's literature, American > History and criticism.
Children > Books and reading.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Children > Books and reading
Children's literature, American
Children's literature, English
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter Introduction
  • Children's literature is dead: long live children's reading / Victor Watson
  • chapter 1 'Familiar Shakespeare' / Janet Bottoms
  • chapter 2 'Play-business': issues raised by Robert Louis Stevenson's classic collection, A Child's Garden of Verses
  • Issues raised by Robert Louis Stevenson's classic collection, / A Child's Garden of Verses Morag Styles
  • chapter 3 The Grimms' wicked stepmothers / Nicholas Tucker
  • chapter 4 By children, about children, for children / Victor Watson
  • chapter 1 One morning's reading of 'An Afternoon in Bright Sunlight' / Gabrielle Cliff Hodges
  • chapter 6 Tales from The Mouse House: playing with reading on CD-ROM LISA SAINSBU RY
  • Playing with reading on CD-ROM / Lisa Sainsbury
  • chapter 7 Girls' playground language and lore
  • What sort of texts are these? / Elizabeth Grugeon
  • chapter 8 Drama, literacies and difference / Helen Nicholson
  • chapter 9 Show and tell
  • Perspectives on Noah's Ark / Jane Doonan
  • chapter 10 New dimensions
  • Word and image in a selection of picture books written by Martin Waddell / Jacqueline Kirk
  • chapter 11 Learning the letters / Anne Rowe
  • chapter 12 'Harming young minds'
  • Moral dilemmas and cultural concerns / Jenny Daniels
  • chapter 13 Fantasy narratives and growing up / David Whitley
  • chapter 14 Myth, legend, culture and morality / Eve Bearne.

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