Feast or famine? : food and children's literature

Feast or famine? : food and children's literature / edited by Bridget Carrington and Jennifer Harding.

"In November 2013, the joint annual conference of the British branch of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY UK) and the MA course at the National Centre for Research in Children's Literature (NCRCL) at Roehampton University took as its focus 'Feast or Famine? Food...

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Other Authors: Carrington, Bridget (Editor), Harding, Jennifer (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
Subjects:
Children's literature > History and criticism > Congresses.
Food in literature > Congresses.
Children's & teenage literature studies.
Cooking for/with children.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Children's literature
Food in literature
Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Carrington, Bridget
  • Constructions of childhood through food in children's literature / Jean Webb
  • Eating my words / Anne Harvey
  • Girls and body image / Fiona Dunbar
  • Liniment cake, beavers, buttered eggs: children cooking, cooking for children / Nicki Humble
  • Drawing, stories, ambiguity, magic / David Lucas
  • Food and the capitalist marketplace in Oscar Wilde's fairy stories / Aoife Byrne
  • Unpunished gluttony in Astrid Lindgren's children's books / Anne Malewski
  • Women, work and chocolate: food, power and 'sites of struggle' in the post-war novels of Noel Streatfeild / Kay Waddilove
  • Food and starvation in heroic-era Antarctic literature for children / Sinéad Moriarty
  • Food supply and sustenance in Victorian Robinsonades for children / Simone Herrmann.
  • 'Edible' children in early nineteenth-century children's literature / Karen Williams
  • Poachers and scavengers: reconceptualizing food in children's literature / Sarah Layzell Hardstaff
  • 'Crunchy apples to you, comrades': Alex Shearer's Bootleg / Rebecca R. Butler
  • Whiz cinnamon rolls to sloppy joes: 50 years in children's cookbooks / Zahra Amlani
  • Bridging the gastonomical divide in translating children's literature / Gili Bar-Hillel
  • Wishing tables and magic puddings: never-ending edibles / Franziska Burstyn
  • A varied menu: children's poetry about food / Pat Pinsent
  • Food, love and childhood: surviving and thriving in the Deepwoods / Rebecca Ann Long.

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