Historical Fiction for Children: Capturing the Past

ISBN-13: 9781853467684 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 180 str.

Judith Graham; Fiona M. Collins

Opis

Historical fiction has a great deal to offer as its readers and devotees have always known. The editors of this book invited authors, academic writers and teachers to reflect on the nature, scope, range and richness of historical fiction for children.

Spis treści

Exploring the narrative past; 1. Dogs and cats: the nineteenth-century historical novel for children, Dennis Butts; 2. The twentieth century – giving everybody a history, Fiona M. Collins, Judith Graham; 3. The silent ages: prehistory and Peter Dickinson, Peter Hollindale; 4. A havey-cavey business: language in historical fiction with Part Icular reference to the novels of Joan Aiken and Leon Garfield, Gillian Lathey; 5. ‘Time no longer’ – history, enchantment and the classic time-slip story, Linda Hall; 6. The historical picture book – is it a ‘good thing’?, Judith Graham; 7. Beyond expectations: historical fiction and working children, Liz Thiel; 8. Passage to America: migration and change, Fiona M. Collins; Writing about the narrative past; 9. Waking quests, Julian Atterton; ch0010 ‘Over the stile and into the past’: Children of Winter and other historical fiction, Berlie Doherty; 11. Flesh on the bones, Michael Foreman; 12. Daddy, or serendipity, Philip Pullman; 13. History and time, Rosemary Sutcliff; Teaching the narrative past; 14. Up and Down the City Road: history through dramatic action, Geoff Fox; 15. Stimulating the historical imagination: working with primary age children on books about the plague, Andrea Fellows; 16. Getting under the skin: the EACH Project, Alun Hicks, Dave Martin; 17. Slavery and the Underground Railroad: working with students, Liz Laycock;

O autorze

Edited by Collins, Fiona M.; Graham, Judith