Catálogo de libros: Estudios de literatura infantil y juvenil

645 Catálogo de libros: Estudios de literatura infantil y juvenil

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  • Shapers of American Childhood
    The experience of growing up in the U.S. is shaped by many forces. Relationships with parents and teachers are deeply personal and definitive. Social and economic contexts are broader and harder to quantify. Key individuals in public life have also had a marked impact on American childhood. These 18 new essays examine the influence of pivotal figures in the culture of 20th...
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    64,59 €

  • Even Salt Looks Like Sugar
    Yecheilyah Ysrayl
    Wanda wants nothing more than to escape the oppressive upbringing of life with her abusive foster mother. Miss Cassaundra manipulates the system by bringing lost children into her home turned whorehouse and collecting the money. Wanda knows what it’s like to be abandoned and has no doubt Abby is Cassaundra's next case. When an opportunity arises, that could save them both, ...
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    14,45 €

  • THE ADVENTURES OF EL CIPITIO
    Randy Jurado Ertll
    El Cipitío leaves El Salvador, his home country. El Cipitío is a mythical, ten-year old kid who is three feet tall. He wears a big hat and has a small belly. His feet are backwards, he can teleport, and he has eternal life. He sacrifices to do well in school and he eventually runs for mayor and president of the United States. El Cipitío deja El Salvador, su país de origen. El C...
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    19,76 €

  • The Curse of Eden
    Alyssa R Clay
    She ran. The young girl knew not what she was running from nor what she was running to; all she knew was run.  Her tattered dress flew behind her in the wind, its once beautiful pale white now a work of mud, blood, and tears. Her hair whipped at her cheeks as scattered tears fell from her tired eyes. Completely hopeless and overwhelmed by the forest, she had lost her path in th...
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    15,08 €

  • Young Adult Literature in the Composition Classroom
    Tamara Girardi
    Young adult literature holds an exceptional place in modern American popular culture. Accessible to readers of all levels, it captures a diverse audience and tends to adapt to the big screen in an exciting way. With its wide readership, YAL sparks interesting discussions inside and outside of the classroom. This collection of new essays examines how YAL has impacted college ...
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    64,77 €

  • Alcott’s Imaginary Heroes
    In the 150 years since the publication of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy have continued to speak to readers: sometimes comforting, sometimes challenging, always inspiring. In this anthology, fans across the world—writers, teachers, homemakers, religious scholars, stop-motion animators and ecologists—celebrate the March sisters’ lives and loves and, like...
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    12,22 €

  • Exploring Nonfiction Literacies
    The book discusses how learners might be guided to interact with texts in a creative but critically engaged and sustainable manner. ...
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    72,81 €

  • Exploring Nonfiction Literacies
    The book discusses how learners might be guided to interact with texts in a creative but critically engaged and sustainable manner. ...
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    36,82 €

  • Growing Up with Vampires
    Vampire narratives are generally thought of as adult or young adult fare, yet there is a long history of their appearance in books, film and other media meant for children. They emerge as expressions of anxiety about change and growing up but sometimes turn out to be new best friends who highlight the beauty of difference and individuality. This collection of new essays e...
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    57,45 €

  • Don Quixote as Children’s Literature
    Velma Bourgeois Richmond
    Cervantes is regarded as the author of the first novel and the inventor of fiction. From its publication in 1605, Don Quixote--recently named the world’s best book by authors from 54 countries--has been widely translated and imitated. Among its less acknowledged imitations are stories in children’s literature. In context of English adaptation and critical response this boo...
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    80,67 €

  • Once Upon a Time in a Dark and Scary Book
    K. Shryock Hood
    Contemporary American horror literature for children and young adults has two bold messages for readers: adults are untrustworthy, unreliable and often dangerous; and the monster always wins (as it must if there is to be a sequel). Examining the young adult horror series and the religious horror series for children (Left Behind: The Kids) for the first time, and tracing th...
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    57,53 €

  • The Little Evergreen’s Dream
    Ed Hanes
    This novel story is offered as an early intervention resource for parents and teachers to guide young children in matters related to bullying. By personifying the trees therein, the author illustrates a basic tactic used by bullies in attempting to intimidate and dominate their victims, i.e., criticizing their physical size and appearance.  By ignoring the insults and ridicule ...
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    3,41 €

  • Why Does No One In My Books Look Like Me?
    Ashli Quesinberry Stokes
    Originally published in 1939, Tobe is a children’s book portraying the daily lives of an African American boy and his siblings on a small farm in rural North Carolina. The book was written by a white woman, Stella Sharpe Gentry, and illustrated by more than fifty staged photographs of actual rural children from the Greensboro area taken by Charles A. Farrell.In the spring of 20...
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    15,30 €

  • Girls on Fire
    Sarah Hentges
    Under the threat of climate change, corruption, inequality and injustice, Americans may feel they are living in a dystopian novel come to life. Like many American narratives, dystopian stories often focus on males as the agents of social change. With a focus on the intersections of race, gender, class, sexuality and power, the author analyzes the themes, issues and charact...
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    42,59 €

  • Does Nonfiction Equate Truth?
    This book offers a rationale for why educators should approach nonfiction literature for children from a critical stance. ...
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    67,18 €

  • Does Nonfiction Equate Truth?
    This book offers a rationale for why educators should approach nonfiction literature for children from a critical stance. ...
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    33,96 €

  • Using Nonfiction for Civic Engagement in Classrooms
    The book examines social issues prevalent in nonfiction literature and texts for children, their impact on society, and offers ideas on how educators might guide students to engage these issues effectively and critically. ...
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    67,27 €

  • Using Nonfiction for Civic Engagement in Classrooms
    The book examines social issues prevalent in nonfiction literature and texts for children, their impact on society, and offers ideas on how educators might guide students to engage these issues effectively and critically. ...
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    34,04 €

  • An Insight into the Horrors of Partition, Colonialism and Women's Issues
    Ishfaq Hussain Bhat
    The book, An Insight into the Horrors of Partition, Colonialism and Women’s Issues, aims to explore, highlight and condemn various forms of oppression like the oppression of the downtrodden women in the patriarchal society, colonialism and mass trauma and exodus during the Partition of India. For the convenience of the readers, the book has been organized in three Chapters. Cha...
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    7,13 €

  • THE ADVENTURES OF EL CIPITIO
    Randy Jurado Ertll
    El Cipitío leaves El Salvador, his home country. El Cipitío is a mythical, ten-year old kid who is three feet tall. He wears a big hat and has a small belly. His feet are backwards, he can teleport, and he has eternal life. He sacrifices to do well in school and he eventually runs for mayor and president of the United States. El Cipitío deja El Salvador, su país de origen. El C...
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    23,22 €

  • Ambedkar
    B. R. Ambedkar / BRAmbedkar
    ’Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man’s life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.’-B.R. AmbedkarBorn in 1891 into an Untouchable family, Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar is the man behind the Indian Constitution and th...
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    20,12 €

  • Themba and the Great Lion
    Eligah Boykin
    The talking drums of Bala thunder out a tale of high adventure. Themba and his wife, Sisiwe, along with Mother Makanya and the rest of the villagers in his tribe, tremble in terror and groan in misery. The whole community toils and sweats in sorrow and starts at the ferocious roar of their king, Sihkulumi, the Great Lion. Grandsire Damasi, a wise and sly elder, sets upon Themba...
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    21,10 €

  • ELUSIVE CHILDHOOD
    SUSAN HONEYMAN
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    49,00 €

  • The Bloomsbury Introduction to Children’s and Young Adult Literature
    Karen Coats
    From Maria Edgeworth, Dr Seuss and Lewis Carroll to Sherman Alexie, Sharon Flake, and Gene Luen Yang, this is a comprehensive introduction to studying the infinitely varied worlds of literature for children and young adults. Exploring a diverse range of writing, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Children’s and Young Adult Literature includes: - Chapters covering key genres and f...
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    153,33 €

  • Girls’ Series Fiction and American Popular Culture
    LuElla D'Amico
    This collection explores the influence of girls’ series books on popular American culture and girls’ everyday experiences. It explores the cultural work that the series genre performs, contemplating the books’ messages about subjects including race, gender, and education, and examines girl fiction within a variety of disciplinary contexts. ...
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    67,91 €

  • Readying Rilla
    ​L.M. Montgomery began writing Rilla of Ingleside shortly after the end of World War I. Her story of the war was not about soldiers fighting and dying on Flanders Fields, but about Canadians struggling to “keep the home fires burning.” It is a novel that today remains at once both deeply moving and, on occasion, very funny.As she wrote the novel over a period of two years, Mont...
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    23,65 €

  • Celia Circle
    Staci Sturmer
    Celia Circle is a story about much more than just circles. It?s a story about loneliness and being different that is met with kindness and acceptance. As Celia Circle struggles to find her place in a new town, she discovers that a true friend will accept her just as she is and embrace her differences.              ...
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    15,62 €

  • My Granny Says
    Marie Hillard
    'Mind Your Manners,' the first in the My Granny Says series, is a celebration of values and principles that parents and grandparents instill in growing children. In My Granny Says: 'Mind Your Manners', Granny teaches Grandchild the importance of positive communication with God, Family and the entire world. Whether you have experienced the teaching of a Granny or not, Grandchild...
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    12,55 €

  • Jamila
    Wessam Elmeligi
    This is the story of Jamila. From a Nubian village by the Nile in southern Egypt to Washignton DC, the young girl whose name means beautiful has to deal with love, fear, death, passion and betrayal as she not only journeys through two continents, but delves into the words and colors of cultures that are both so far and yet so close. ...
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    33,85 €

  • Indians in Victorian Children’s Narratives
    Shilpa Daithota / Shilpa Daithota Bhat
    This book analyzes the use of animal imagery in children’s literature produced by British writers. It encapsulates the agenda of consciously training British children through underscoring resources and fauna in India pursued by the British society in the nineteenth century Victorian England. ...
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    129,42 €


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