This study examines the children s books of three extraordinary British writers J.K. Rowling, Diana Wynne Jones, and Terry Pratchett and investigates their sophisticated use of narrative strategies not only to engage children in reading, but to educate them into becoming mature readers and indeed individuals. The book demonstrates how in quite different ways these writers establish reader expectations by drawing on conventions in existing genres only to subvert those expectations. Their strategies lead young readers to evaluate for themselves both the power of story to shape our...
This study examines the children s books of three extraordinary British writers J.K. Rowling, Diana Wynne Jones, and Terry Pratchett and investigat...
This book is the first to offer a justice-focused cognitive reading of modern YA speculative fiction in its narrative and filmic forms. It links the expansion of YA speculative fiction in the 20th century with the emergence of human and civil rights movements, with the communitarian revolution in conceptualizations of justice, and with spectacular advances in cognitive sciences as applied to the examination of narrative fiction. Oziewicz argues that complex ideas such as justice are processed by the human mind as cognitive scripts; that scripts, when narrated, take the form of...
This book is the first to offer a justice-focused cognitive reading of modern YA speculative fiction in its narrative and filmic forms. It links th...
This book is a historical and comparative study of the movable book -- media that crosses the borders between game and narrative -- as interactive narrative media in relation to the implied and actual child interactors who engage with them. The interrelation among children, interactive media, and participatory culture is usually thought of as a contemporary phenomenon, particularly associated with digital media such as computer games. Reid-Walsh focuses on the period movable books first became connected with children in the mid-17th century and extending to the...
This book is a historical and comparative study of the movable book -- media that crosses the borders between game and narrative -- as interactive ...
This is the first volume to consider the popular literary category of Early Readers - books written and designed for children who are just beginning to read independently. It argues that Early Readers deserve more scholarly attention and careful thought because they are, for many younger readers, their first opportunity to engage with a work of literature on their own, to feel a sense of mastery over a text, and to experience pleasure from the act of reading independently. Using interdisciplinary approaches that draw upon and synthesize research being done in education, child psychology,...
This is the first volume to consider the popular literary category of Early Readers - books written and designed for children who are just beginnin...
This book investigates the reappearance of the 19th-century dream-child from the Golden Age of Children's Literature, both in the Harry Potter series and in other works that have reached unprecedented levels of popular success today. Discussing Harry Potter as a reincarnation of Lewis Carroll's Alice and J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, Billone goes on to examine the recent resurrection of Alice in Tim Burton's Alice, and of Peter Pan in Michael Jackson and in James Bond. Visiting trends that have emerged since the Harry Potter series ended, the book studies revisions of the dream-child in texts...
This book investigates the reappearance of the 19th-century dream-child from the Golden Age of Children's Literature, both in the Harry Potter seri...
This volume focuses on the (de)canonization processes in children s literature, considering the construction and cultural-historical changes of canons in different children s literatures. Chapters by international experts in the field explore a wide range of different children s literatures from Great Britain, Germany, Scandinavia, the Low Countries, Eastern and Central Europe, as well as from Non-European countries such as Australia, Israel, and the United States. Situating the inquiry within larger literary and cultural studies conversations about canonicity, the contributors assess...
This volume focuses on the (de)canonization processes in children s literature, considering the construction and cultural-historical changes of can...
This book explores representations of child autonomy and self-governance in children s literature.The idea of child rule and child realms is central to children s literature, and childhood is frequently represented as a state of being, with children seen as aliens in need of passports to Adultland (and vice versa). In a sense all children s literature depends on the idea that children are different, separate, and in command of their own imaginative spaces and places. Although the idea of child rule is a persistent theme in discussions of children s literature (or about children and...
This book explores representations of child autonomy and self-governance in children s literature.The idea of child rule and child realms is centra...
What, exactly, does one mean when idealizing tolerance as a solution to cultural conflict? This book examines a wide range of young adult texts, both fiction and memoir, representing the experiences of young adults during WWII and the Holocaust. Author Rachel Dean-Ruzicka argues for a progressive reading of this literature. Tolerance Discourse and Young Adult Holocaust Literature contests the modern discourse of tolerance, encouraging educators and readers to more deeply engage with difference and identity when studying Holocaust texts. Young adult Holocaust literature is an...
What, exactly, does one mean when idealizing tolerance as a solution to cultural conflict? This book examines a wide range of young adult texts, bo...
This book visits contemporary British children s and young adult (YA) fiction alongside cosmopolitanism, exploring the notion of the nation within the context of globalization, transnationalism and citizenship. By resisting globalization s dehumanizing conflation, cosmopolitanism offers an ethical, humanitarian, and political outlook of convivial planetary community. In its pedagogical responsibility towards readers who will become future citizens, contemporary children s and YA fiction seeks to interrogate and dismantle modes of difference and instead provide aspirational models of...
This book visits contemporary British children s and young adult (YA) fiction alongside cosmopolitanism, exploring the notion of the nation within ...