Science Fiction, Children’s Literature, and Popular Culture: Coming of Age in Fantasyland (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy)

In a constantly changing world, individuals are forever growing to meet the challenges and developments that emerge around them. In contemporary society, technology is at the heart of change.

Living Literature: Using Children’s Literature to Support Reading and Language Arts

This is the ideal book to help prospective teachers improve children’s reading and language arts skills and instill in them a genuine and lasting love of reading. The book

Fairy Tales, Fables, Legends, and Myths: Using Folk Literature in Your Classroom (Early Childhood Series)

Features teaching ideas, lesson plans, the historical and cultural background of folklore, and more Product Features Used Book in Good Condition

Aesthetic Approaches to Children’s Literature: An Introduction

This work provides students of children’s literature with a comprehensible and easytouse analytical tool kit, showing through concrete demonstration how each tool might best be used to examine aesthetic

Essentials of Children’s Literature (9th Edition) (What’s New in Literacy)

For survey courses in children’s literature. Also suitable as a companion text in an integrated reading/language arts course.   From a well-known, well-respected author team–a comprehensive, yet concise resource

Children’s Literature in Action: A Librarian’s Guide, 3rd Edition (Library and Information Science Text Series)

This practitioner-oriented introduction to literature for children ages 5–12 covers the latest trends, titles, and tools for choosing the best books and materials as well as for planning fun

A Path of Stars (Asian Pacific American Award for Literature. Children’s and Young Adult. Honorable Mention (Awards))

A touching story of family, loss, and memory. Dara’s grandmother, Lok Yeay, is full of stories about her life growing up in Cambodia, before she immigrated to the United

Children’s Fantasy Literature: An Introduction

Fantasy has been an important and much-loved part of children’s literature for hundreds of years, yet relatively little has been written about it. Children’s Fantasy Literature traces the development

A to Zoo: Subject Access to Children’s Picture Books, 10th Edition (Children’s and Young Adult Literature Reference)

Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers’ advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for