Crockett Johnson (born David Johnson Leisk, 1906-1975) and Ruth Krauss (1901-1993) were a husband-and-wife team that created such popular children's books as The Carrot Seed and How to Make an Earthquake. Separately, Johnson created the enduring children's classic Harold and the…
Publisher's description: Bosmajian explores children's texts that have either a Holocaust survivor or a former member of the Hitler Youth as a protagonist. The texts examined include juvenile fiction and picture books and understudied nonfiction accounts such as narrative about …
Publisher's description: Bosmajian explores children's texts that have either a Holocaust survivor or a former member of the Hitler Youth as a protagonist. The texts examined include juvenile fiction and picture books and understudied nonfiction accounts such as narrative about …
"Trites argues that the development of the genre over the past thirty years is an out-growth of postmodernism, since YA novels are, by definition, texts that interrogate the social construction of individuals. Drawing on such nineteenth-century precursors as Little Women and Adv…
The Young Adult novel is ordinarily characterized as a coming-of-age story, in which the narrative revolves around the individual growth and maturation of a character, but Roberta Trites expands this notion by chronicling the dynamics of power and repression that weave their way…
Focusing on questions of space and locale in children’s literature, this collection explores how metaphorical and physical space can create landscapes of power, knowledge, and identity in texts from the early nineteenth century to the present. The collection is comprised of…
Focusing on questions of space and locale in children's literature, this collection explores how metaphorical and physical space can create landscapes of power, knowledge, and identity in texts from the early nineteenth century to the present. The contributors, who include Phili…
Demonstrates how YA literature can be used in the English classroom and across the curriculum.
Demonstrates how YA literature can be used in the English classroom and across the curriculum.
