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Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature articles from May 2008
A scholarly publication devoted to critical essays on childre.'s literature, published three times a year. Articles include evaluations, history, and comparative discussion.
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Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature archives from May 2008
Editorial.(Editorial)
May 1, 2008... The cover of this issue of Papers features an image which appears in the First Book of the Victorian Readers, originally published in 1928. As Jane McGennisken demonstrates in her essay on Australian mythologies of childhood in the Tasmanian...
'A little child shall lead them': Tasmanian and Victorian School Readers and national growth.(Critical essay)
May 1, 2008... Reading, one of the 'three Rs' still fundamental to educational theory and reconceptualisations of literacy teaching and learning, is a complex socio-cultural practice. Recent attacks on critical literacy approaches to teaching English reveal...
'A Great Ghastly Mistake'?: Approaches to Teenage Pregnancy in K. M. Peyton's Pennington's Heir and Berlie Doherty's Dear Nobody.(Critical essay)
May 1, 2008... Nearly two decades separate the publication of K. M. Peyton's Pennington's Heir (1973) and Berlie Doherty's Dear Nobody (1991), both of which focus on the theme of teenage pregnancy. Dear Nobody won the Carnegie Medal, was shortlisted for four...
'You molded me like clay': David Almond's sexualised monsters.(Critical essay)
May 1, 2008...
Monsters and the Gothic fiction that creates them are therefore
technologies, narrative technologies that produce the perfect
figure for negative identity. Monsters have to be everything the
human is not and, in producing the...
Comparative children's literature: what is there to compare?(Critical essay)
May 1, 2008... Literary texts do not appear in a vacuum. Literature in Western society has been written for several thousand years, and literature written specifically for children has existed for at least two hundred years. Thousands of children's books are...
Lying, or storytelling, as antidote to unhappiness in Robin Klein's Hating Alison Ashley and Anne Fine's A Pack of Lies and Goggle-eyes.(Critical essay)
May 1, 2008... Lying and poetry are arts--arts, as Plato saw, not unconnected with each other-and they require the most careful study, the most disinterested devotion.
--Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying
A great man-a man whom nature has constructed...
Playfulness in Lauren Child's picture books.(Critical essay)
May 1, 2008... Lauren Child is the author/illustrator of thirteen picture books, four board books and three novels, most prominently the Clarice Bean series and the Charlie and Lola series. (1) She has been feted as 'one of Britain's foremost children's...
Australian Children's Literature Digital Resources Project.(NEWS & NOTICES)
May 1, 2008... The online database AustLit: the Australian Literature Resource (http://www.austlit.edu.au/) has recently secured funding from the Australian Research Council to embark on a number of projects to enhance the services provided to researchers,...