Catálogo de libros: Estudios de literatura infantil y juvenil

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  • Eleanor Cameron
    Paul V Allen
    Eleanor Cameron (1912-1996) was an innovative and genre-defying author of children's fiction and children's literature criticism. From her beginnings as a librarian, Cameron went on to become a prominent and respected voice in children's literature, writing one of the most beloved children's science fiction novels of all time, The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroo...
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    42,78 €

  • Twenty-First-Century Feminisms in Children’s and Adolescent Literature
    Roberta Seelinger Trites
    Over twenty years after the publication of her groundbreaking work, Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in Children's Novels, Roberta Seelinger Trites returns to analyze how literature for the young still provides one outlet in which feminists can offer girls an alternative to sexism. Supplementing her previous work in the linguistic turn, Trites employs methodologies f...
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    50,17 €

  • Posthumanist Readings in Dystopian Young Adult Fiction
    Jennifer Harrison
    This book explores the deployment of posthumanist ideology in young adult dystopian fiction. It applies this theory to the presentation of social issues in select novels. ...
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    122,60 €

  • Oz Behind the Iron Curtain
    Erika Haber
    Recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Faculty Research Achievement Award in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Syracuse UniversityIn 1939, Aleksandr Volkov (1891-1977) published Wizard of the Emerald City, a revised version of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Only a line on the copyright page explained the book as a "reworking" of the Americ...
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    50,02 €

  • The Sidekick Comes of Age
    Stephen M. Zimmerly / Stephen MZimmerly / Stephen Zimmerly
    Young adult literature uses literary sidekicks in new and exciting ways, which changes how sidekicks are understood. Three ways authors elevate sidekicks include letting sidekicks “evolve” over the course of multiple texts, using parallel novels to add complexity to a sidekick’s characterization, and telling a story from the sidekick’s perspective. ...
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    122,53 €

  • Pride and Prejudice
    Jane Austen
    Originally published in 1813, Pride and Prejudice is the depiction of marriage, education, manners and money in the British Regency. Mr.Bennett has five daughters, however his property is entailed meaning none of his daughters can inherit it. His wife has no fortune so it is imperative that at least one of the girls marry well.When wealthy Mr.Bingley and his best friend Mr.Darc...
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    27,70 €

  • Literature’s Children
    Louise Joy
    Literature’s Children offers a new way of thinking about how literature for children functions didactically. It analyzes the nature of the practical critical activity which the child reader carries out, emphasizing what the child does to the text rather than what he or she receives from it. Through close readings of a range of works for children which have shaped our understand...
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    173,86 €

  • Steve and the Steam Engine
    Sara Ware Bassett
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    8,81 €

  • A Gift for Gracelyn
    A E Smith / A. E. Smith
    Gracelyn is a young girl who lives on a small ranch called Eagle Wings with her family and animal friends. She has to go to a hospital for a life-saving operation and will miss being at home for her twelfth birthday. While Gracelyn prepares to go to the hospital, the animals living at the ranch decide that Gracelyn should have a birthday gift. They work together to surprise her...
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    15,96 €

  • Rereading Childhood Books
    Alison Waller
    Childhood books play a special role in reading histories, providing touchstones for our future tastes and giving shape to our ongoing identities. Bringing the latest work in Memory Studies to bear on writers’ memoirs, autobiographical accounts of reading, and interviews with readers, Rereading Childhood Books explores how adults remember, revisit, and sometimes forget, these si...
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    173,91 €

  • Creek Fever
    Aelina Longo
    Fearless young Dino Valenti and his dog Harley solve a mystery that saves a community.A young boy and his dog must move from Hollywood to a small farm town in Kentucky to live with his grandfather after a tragic car accident took his parents. A fish out of water, ten year old Dino Valenti and his dog Harley become local heroes when they uncover a mystery that has cursed a commu...
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    12,16 €

  • Artistry of Neil Gaiman
    Kyle Eveleth
    Contributions by Lanette Cadle, Züleyha Çetiner-Öktem, Renata Lucena Dalmaso, Andrew Eichel, Kyle Eveleth, Anna Katrina Gutierrez, Darren Harris-Fain, Krystal Howard, Christopher D. Kilgore, Kristine Larsen, Thayse Madella, Erica McCrystal, Tara Prescott, Danielle Russell, Joe Sutliff Sanders, Joseph Michael Sommers, and Justin WigardNeil Gaiman (b. 1960) reigns as one of the m...
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    158,09 €

  • Artistry of Neil Gaiman
    Kyle Eveleth
    Contributions by Lanette Cadle, Züleyha Çetiner-Öktem, Renata Lucena Dalmaso, Andrew Eichel, Kyle Eveleth, Anna Katrina Gutierrez, Darren Harris-Fain, Krystal Howard, Christopher D. Kilgore, Kristine Larsen, Thayse Madella, Erica McCrystal, Tara Prescott, Danielle Russell, Joe Sutliff Sanders, Joseph Michael Sommers, and Justin WigardNeil Gaiman (b. 1960) reigns as one of the m...
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    49,93 €

  • The Story of John Wesley
    Marianne Kirlew
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    7,32 €

  • Conversations with Maurice Sendak
    Peter C Kunze
    Maurice Sendak (1928-2012) stands out as one of the most respected, influential authors of the twentieth century. Though primarily known as a children's book writer and illustrator, he did not limit himself to these areas. He saw himself first and foremost as an artist. In this collection of interviews, Sendak presents himself as a writer, illustrator, set designer, and lib...
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    21,00 €

  • Perils of Protection
    Susan Honeyman
    Unrecognized in the United States and resisted in many wealthy, industrialized nations, children's rights to participation and self-determination are easily disregarded in the name of protection. In literature, the needs of children are often obscured by protectionist narratives, which redirect attention to parents by mythologizing the supposed innocence, victimization, and...
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    158,37 €

  • Perils of Protection
    Susan Honeyman
    Unrecognized in the United States and resisted in many wealthy, industrialized nations, children's rights to participation and self-determination are easily disregarded in the name of protection. In literature, the needs of children are often obscured by protectionist narratives, which redirect attention to parents by mythologizing the supposed innocence, victimization, and...
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    50,21 €

  • Mental Illness in Young Adult Literature
    Kia Richmond
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    64,30 €

  • Representing Agency in Popular Culture
    Representing Agency in Popular Culture addresses the intersection of child and youth agency and popular culture. Here, scholars expand understandings of agency, power, and voice in children’s lives, identifying popular culture as an important source of inspiration and inquiry within the future of childhood studies. ...
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    156,20 €

  • Jane Austen Coloring Book
    Samantha Snyder
    Jane Austen Coloring Book shares 50 doodle art images of inspiring quotations printed on one side of the page for all ages to color.Words of wisdom are selected from Jane Austen’s books and letters including Emma, Lady Susan, Letters, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Sanditon, and Sense and Sensibility.Famous quotes include: “Every moment has i...
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    9,67 €

  • When the Child Fell Ill
    Charlotte S. Akyeampong
    A young child’s health hangs in a balance, and the reality that unfolds around him becomes a portrait of some of the complex natures of humankind and the virtues or otherwise that define our choices.  The setting is a Ghanaian town, but the truth of the plot may very well replay in any village, town or city anywhere in the world. Like a blinding light at night, a family is left...
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    12,95 €

  • Conversations with Madeleine l’Engle
    Jackie C Horne
    Conversations with Madeleine L'Engle is the first collection of interviews with the beloved children's book author best known for her 1962 Newbery Award-winning novel, A Wrinkle in Time. However, Madeleine L'Engle's accomplishments as a writer spread far beyond children's literature. Beginning her career as a literary novelist for adults, L'Engle (1918-2...
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    42,93 €

  • Conversations with Madeleine l’Engle
    Jackie C Horne
    Conversations with Madeleine L'Engle is the first collection of interviews with the beloved children's book author best known for her 1962 Newbery Award-winning novel, A Wrinkle in Time. However, Madeleine L'Engle's accomplishments as a writer spread far beyond children's literature. Beginning her career as a literary novelist for adults, L'Engle (1918-2...
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    158,39 €

  • The Feeling Child
    This edited volume, working within the specific frame of the ‘affective turn’ in the study of contemporary sociocultural settings across Latin America, compiles a series of essays on children's presence in selected Latin American literary and cinematic expressions. ...
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    122,28 €

  • The New Caribbean Folktales and Legends for the 21st Century
    Roselle Thompson
    In The New Caribbean Folktales and Legends for the 21st Century, this author resurrects Caribbean folkloric characters to create modern tales which have originated from the folktales of the Caribbean.  By doing so, it historicises their ancestral linkages and transmits their continued relevance to our present dominant, scientific and technological epoch; which at times, appears...
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    21,92 €

  • Inside the World of Harry Potter
    Christopher E. Bell
    Many scholars recognize the importance of Harry Potter as a vehicle for discussions about society--from race relations and gender studies to economic, political, religious and educational applications of the texts. This interdisciplinary collection of new essays brings to the forefront a critique of modern Western society, using Harry’s world as a mirror to our own. Coveri...
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    57,60 €

  • The Rhetorical Power of Children’s Literature
    John Saunders
    This book offers case studies analyzing a full array of genres in children’s literature, from picture books to young adult novels. This volume’s contributions interrogate how children’s literature is a powerful yet under examined space of rhetorical discourse that influences one of the most impressionable segments of our population. ...
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    50,43 €

  • I Scream Koans
    Brian Rock
    'What is the sound of one hand clapping?' 'If a tree falls in the woods and no one hears it, does it make a sound?' 'Did you ever stop to think and forget to start again?'Sometimes koans can come from the most unlikely places. And sometimes the simplest things can be the most profound. But with the right perspective, enlightenment can be found around every corner and with the t...
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    11,62 €

  • The Search
    Charlotte S. Akyeampong
    “The Search” is an adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Pardoner’s Tale,” and conveys many original cautionary themes to a new audience. Straying from Chaucer’s work, Charlotte Akyeampong creates new characters, not only to widen the scope of the story, but also to ensure effective interaction of different characters. For that is the essence of any good drama.The play seeks to...
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    13,05 €

  • Moxie and a Good Sense of Balance
    Lynne Byall Benson
    Moxie and a Good Sense of Balance acknowledges the fictional character of Nancy Drew as a role model for young women of the twenty-first century; an independent young woman, willing to take on injustices in her world. She is a sister of contemporary female detectives Veronica Mars and Jessica Jones. ...
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    26,70 €


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