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  • The Jane Addams Children's Book Award

    Honoring Children's Literature for Peace and Social Justice since 1953

    by Susan C. Griffith ...
    Jane Addams (1860–1935) was an inspired activist who struck at the roots of social injustice through persistent and thoughtful action, advocating for reforms in sanitation, housing and work conditions, and child labor. In 1915 Addams founded the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), and in 1931 she became the first American female recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Eighteen ... Read more

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  • The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies

    by Beatrix Potter ...
    The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies is a children's book written and illustrated by the famous author of children's stories: Beatrix Potter: After two full-length tales about rabbits, Potter had grown weary of depicting lagomorphs, and initially did not want to create another rabbit story. She realized however that children enjoyed her rabbit stories and pictures best, and reached back to characters ... Read more

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  • Planet Narnia

    The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis

    by Michael Ward ...
    For over half a century, scholars have laboured to show that C. S. Lewis's famed but apparently disorganised Chronicles of Narnia have an underlying symbolic coherence, pointing to such possible unifying themes as the seven sacraments, the seven deadly sins, and the seven books of Spenser's Faerie Queene. None of these explanations has won general acceptance and the structure of Narnia's symbolism ... Read more

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  • The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle

    by Beatrix Potter ...
    The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle is a children's book written and illustrated by the famous author of children's stories: Beatrix Potter: Tiggy-winkle is a hedgehog and a washerwoman who lives in a tiny cottage in the fells of the Lake District. A child named Lucie happens upon the cottage and stays for tea. The two deliver freshly laundered clothing to the animals and birds in the neighborhood. ... Read more

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  • Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp [ Illustrated ]

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    by Walter Crane ...
    * Illustrated * Author Biography * Interactive Table of Contents * Free Audiobook Download Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp [ Illustrated ] [ Free Audiobooks Download ] Aladdin is a child laborer who works for a guy that exchanges "new lamps for old". This guy swaps a "new" lamp for 2-3 replacement old lamps, then brings back the old lamps for Aladdin to polish and make look like new. One day ... Read more

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  • Poems Every Child Should Know

    The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library

    by Various ...
    "Poems Every Child Should Know" is a carefully curated anthology that introduces young readers to the rich tapestry of poetry, spanning various cultures and historical contexts. With an accessible literary style, the collection features a diverse array of voices and themes, from the whimsical to the profound, aiming to engage children's imagination and emotional intelligence. The selection fosters ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults

    Brave New Teenagers

    Edited by Balaka Basu, Katherine R. Broad, Carrie Hintz ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    Winner of the Children’s Literature Association Edited Book AwardFrom the jaded, wired teenagers of M.T. Anderson's Feed to the spirited young rebels of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games trilogy, the protagonists of Young Adult dystopias are introducing a new generation of readers to the pleasures and challenges of dystopian imaginings. As the dark universes of YA dystopias continue to flood the ... Read more

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  • The Owl, The Raven, and the Dove

    The Religious Meaning of the Grimms' Magic Fairy Tales

    by G. Ronald Murphy ...
    The fairy tales collected by the brothers Grimm are among the best known and most widely-read stories in western literature. In recent years commentators such as Bruno Bettelheim have, usually from a psychological perspective, pondered the underlying meaning of the stories, why children are so enthralled by them, and what effect they have on the the best-known tales (Hansel and Gretel, Little Red ... Read more

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  • Translation, Globalization and Younger Audiences

    The Situation in Poland

    by Michał Borodo ...
    Series Book 25 - New Trends in Translation Studies
    Translating for younger audiences is in need of critical investigation, as children’s and teenagers’ literature and media products are being increasingly globalized and glocalized, with translation playing an important role in the process. Media phenomena such as Harry Potter and animated Disney films travel across continents through hundreds of local cultures. These productions exert a ... Read more

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  • Bridges to Understanding

    Envisioning the World through Children's Books

    by Linda M. Pavonetti ...
    This is the fourth volume sponsored by the United States Board on Books for Young People, following Children's Books from Other Countries (1998), The World Through Children's Books (2002), and Crossing Boundaries (2006). This latest volume, edited by Linda M. Pavonetti, includes books published between 2005 and 2009.This annotated bibliography, organized geographically by world region and country, ... Read more

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  • Brown Gold

    Milestones of African American Children's Picture Books, 1845-2002

    by Michelle Martin ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    Brown Gold is a compelling history and analysis of African-American children's picturebooks from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. At the turn of the nineteenth century, good children's books about black life were hard to find — if, indeed, young black readers and their parents could even gain entry into the bookstores and libraries. But today, in the "Golden Age" of African-American ... Read more

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  • Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood

    The Progressive Era Creation of the Schoolboy Sports Story

    by Ryan K. Anderson ...
    Series series Sport, Culture, and Society
    Gilbert Patten, writing as Burt L. Standish, made a career of generating serialized twenty-thousand-word stories featuring his fictional creation Frank Merriwell, a student athlete at Yale University who inspired others to emulate his example of manly boyhood. Patten and his publisher, Street and Smith, initially had only a general idea about what would constitute Merriwell’s adventures and who ... Read more

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