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A love letter to the joys of childhood reading from Wonderland to Narnia.'Passionate, witty, informed, and gloriously opinionated' Jacqueline Wilson'I...
'Once upon a time in mid-winter, when the snowflakes were falling from the sky like down, a queen was sitting and sewing at a window ...'
The tales g...
This Book Thinks You're a Maths Genius explores seven key areas of maths: geometry, space and volume, statistics, numbers and number patterns, codes a...
What exactly is a children's book? How is children's literature defined as a genre? A leading scholar presents close readings of six classic stories t...
This incredibly wide-ranging collection of maps-all inspired by literary classics-offers readers a new way of looking at their favorite fictional worl...
Evolutionary theory sparked numerous speculations about human development, and one of the most ardently embraced was the idea that children are animal...
A New York Times BestsellerWinner of the Garden Writers Association Gold Award There aren't many books more beloved than The Tale of Peter Rabbit and ...
Winnie-the-Pooh is one of the best-loved and most successful children's characters of all time. Published to accompany a major exhibition at the Victo...
Having a good working knowledge of children's literature is vital for primary teachers; the best way to develop switched-on young readers is to ensure...
J. K. Rowling's popular series of books about the boy wizard Harry Potter has captivated readers of all ages around the world. Selling more than 400 m...
Acclaimed children's book authority Rob Reid creates the ultimate guide to choosing fun and funny stories to read with and to your children and grandc...
This Norton Critical Edition collects forty-four fairy tales, from the fifth century to the present. The Classic Fairy Tales focuses on six tale types...
The first English-language biography of Astrid Lindgren provides a moving and revealing portrait of the beloved Scandinavian literary icon whose adven...
Wicked stepmothers and beautiful princesses . magic forests and enchanted towers . little pigs and big bad wolves . Fairy tales have been an integral ...
Over the River and Through the Wood is the first and only collection of its kind, offering readers an unequaled view of the quality and diversity of n...
Of all of the rich fairy-tale collections that exist in countries throughout the world, few are better known than those gathered almost two centuries ...
Level: GCSESubject: English LiteratureProviding a thorough analysis of the text, this handy literature guide to An Inspector Calls will help you fully...
'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat. 'We're all mad here.'
The 'Alice' books are two o...
When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up different worlds and cast new light on this one.She was whisked away to Narnia - ...
Edited by Peter Hunt, a leading figure in the field, this book introduces the study of children's literature, addressing theoretical questions as well...
Some of the most interesting and entertaining myths and legends from Ancient Egypt are given a lively re-telling by Joyce Tyldesley. These include s...
Leonard is on the bench. In the dead zone. Stuck there like a zombie. And it's not as if his soccer team is even any good without him! They lose all t...
This book is a collection of traditional German fairy tales and fables, deliberately transformed into utopian narratives and social commentary by poli...
Fantasy has been an important and much-loved part of children's literature for hundreds of years, yet relatively little has been written about it. Chi...
Sumptuous.a fitting legacy for a pioneering conservationist who helped save thousands of acres of the Lake District - The Mail on Sunday, August 201...
TERRY DEARY'S BEST EVER SHAKESPEARE TALES tells you more than just
what happens in everyone's favourite Shakespeare plays - it tells
you t...
Children's literature takes many forms - works adapted for children in antiquity, picture books and pop-ups - and now includes the latest online games...
From Maria Edgeworth, Dr Seuss and Lewis Carroll to Sherman Alexie, Sharon Flake, and Gene Luen Yang, this is a comprehensive introduction to studying...
Since the late 1970s, scholarly interest in the translation of children's books has increased at a rapid pace. Research across a number of disciplines...
An approachable and inspiring series of short essays that examines the greatest YA series ever with a combination of adult literary criticism and chi...
'this is all a fairy tale...and, therefore, you are not to believe a word of it, even if it is true'
The Water-Babies (1863) is one of the strangest ...
An established introductory textbook that provides students with a guide to developments in children's literature over time and across genres. This st...
In this groundbreaking and wide-ranging study, Teresa Michals explores why some books originally written for a mixed-age audience, such as Daniel Defo...
If there is one genre that has captured the imagination of people in all walks of life throughout the world, it is the fairy tale. Yet we still have g...
The annual, bestselling guide to all aspects of the media and how to write and illustrate for children and young adults. Acknowledged by the media ind...
This popular textbook introduces prospective and practicing English teachers to current methods of teaching literature in middle and high school class...
Bringing together leading scholars and teacher educators from across the world, from Europe and the USA to Asia, this book presents the latest researc...
Adaptations of canonical texts have played an important role throughout the history of children's literature and have been seen as an active and vital...
J. M. Barrie, Victorian novelist, playwright, and author of Peter Pan or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, led a life almost as magical and interesting as...
Can fairy tales subvert consumerism? Can fantasy and children's literature counter the homogenizing influence of globalization? Can storytellers retai...
The Wind in the Willows has its origins in the bedtime stories that Kenneth Grahame told to his son Alastair and then continued in letters (now held i...
The banning of Mexican-American Studies and censorship of Chican@-authored books in Arizona were part of a succession of anti-Mexican and anti-Chican@...
Kim Reynolds, Jane Rosen, and Michael Rosen present a new anthology of radical writings for children from the first half of the twentieth century. In ...
'A landmark, bringing together a lifetime's work on Lewis Carroll by writer and mathematician Martin Gardner. He dazzles on Carroll's puzzles and game...
Some of the most innovative and spell-binding literature has been written for young people, but only recently has academic study embraced its range an...
Now the subject of major Disney film starring Ewan McGregor, this is Christopher Robin in his own words.Millions of readers throughout the world have ...
Featuring close readings of selected poetry, visual texts, short stories and novels published for children since 1945 from Naughty Amelia Jane to Wate...
Winnie the Pooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood are some of the world's most beloved characters in children's literature. But before they a...
This book calls for a re-imagining of global picture book history: with the former Soviet Union at the centre of this narrative web. The result of an ...
Provides a unique snapshot of themes and trends within popular fiction in the twenty-first century
This groundbreaking collection captures the state o...