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From: Noel Streatfeild"It will all be Sir Garnet." This comforting if nonsensical statement--suggesting a romantic rescue from suffering--uttered by the nannies in many of Noel Streatfeild's family novels encapsulates the major concerns and...
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From: Lion and the Unicorn[(essay date April 1997) In the following essay, Russell examines how three works of Holocaust children's literature--Lois Lowry's Number the Stars, Hans Richter's Friedrich, and Jane Yolen's The Devil's...
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From: Lion and the Unicorn[(essay date January 2001) In the following essay, Chaston offers a critical re-examination of Baum's Oz books on the occasion of the centennial anniversary of the first publication of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.] I...
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From: Science-Fiction Studies[(essay date November 1985) In the following essay, Nodelman offers a critical reading of one of the dominant recurring themes in juvenile science fiction--the hero-child escaping a sterile, enclosed society into the...
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From: Style[(essay date fall 2001) In the essay below, Trites examines several Harry Potter novels in the context of Foucault's theories concerning power, providing insight into the nature of adolescent literature.] When I first...
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From: Children's Literature Association Quarterly[(essay date spring 2012) In the following essay, Galway examines Rowling's Harry Potter novels within the framework of the school story genre, noting that Rowling's situating of her stories in the elitist setting of a...
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From: The Lion and the Unicorn[(essay date April 1997) In the essay below, Russell contrasts The Devil's Arithmetic, with the novels Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry, and Friedrich by Hans Richter, pointing out the ways that each novel documents the...
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From: Beatrix Potter's "Peter Rabbit": A Children's Classic at 100[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, Gross argues that the protagonists' journey through a state of wildness and back in Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are mirrors a...
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From: Lion and the Unicorn[(essay date September 2000) In the following article, Galbraith contends that several prominent post-World War I picture books, prominently among them Gág's Millions of Cats, encapsulate the difficulties children faced...
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From: Children's Literature Association Quarterly[(essay date winter 2008) In the following essay, Gooding gives a psychoanalytic reading of Coraline in the context of children's literature.] When Coraline appeared in the spring of 2002, Neil Gaiman had already...
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From: Lion and the Unicorn[(essay date January 2001) In the following essay, Thompson utilizes picture books about Harriet Tubman as the basis for a study about the artistic depictions of African-Americans in literature for children.] Picture...
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From: Children's Literature Association Quarterly[(essay date winter 2008) In the following essay, Gooding discusses Gaiman's Coraline, exploring differences between adults' reception of the novel and those of its intended juvenile audience, and focusing on the novel's...
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From: Children's Literature Association Quarterly[(essay date spring 2007) In the following essay, Donovan suggests that Staples's Pakistani-set young adult novels are not "bridge texts" to a foreign culture, but rather "disorderly" readings meant to challenge readers'...
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From: Transformative Works and Cultures[(essay date 2015) In the following essay, Wilkinson uses Michel Foucault’s notion of heterotopia to draw connections between Green’s Paper Towns and his Web site Nerdfighters, an online forum where the author and his...
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From: Knowing Their Place? Identity and Space in Children’s Literature[(essay date 2011) In the following essay, Grafton observes that Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s Understood Betsy (1917), L. M. Montgomery’s Jane of Lantern Hill (1937), and The Secret Garden all feature convalescence in the...
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From: Kiddie Lit: The Cultural Construction of Children's Literature in America[(essay date 2003) In the following essay, Clark charts how critical opinions, both literary and culturally, have evolved since Disney's origins in the 1930s.] How have Americans responded to children's literature...
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From: Approaches to Teaching the Arthurian Tradition[(essay date 1992) In the following essay, Whitaker offers an assessment of available texts suitable for children studying the Arthurian tradition.] Ever since the Middle Ages, Arthurian literature has been accessible...
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From: Shofar[(essay date fall 2010) In the following essay, Krasner and Zollman examine the role of Judaism in Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret and the influence of religion in Blume's personal life.] Most often recognized for...
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From: Children's Literature in Education[(essay date June 1998) In the following essay, Bradford studies whether Browne's depiction of father figures in his picture books is representative of his perspectives on masculinity.] Anthony Browne's picture books...
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From: Penelope Lively[(essay date 1993) In the following excerpted essay, Moran differentiates between how Lively introduces the reverberations of the past into her children's novels versus that of her adult works, noting that her juvenile...