scholarly journals Children and Cheap Print from a Transnational Perspective

Quaerendo ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 189-215
Author(s):  
Laura Carnelos ◽  
Elisa Marazzi
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Young People ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Market Making ◽  
New Research ◽  
Mixed Age ◽  
Cheap Print ◽  
Printing Techniques

Abstract From their earliest existence cheap printed texts were intended to be read by a mixed-age audience, young people included. Research on children’s literature has flourished in the last decades, nonetheless the role that cheap and ephemeral print played in early modern children’s lives has been largely overlooked. Based on both existing literature and new research in various European areas, this article asks how, where, and when a market for a distinctively children’s cheap print took shape and how transnational this phenomenon was. It demonstrates that children were avid consumers of cheap print even before they were openly addressed to in titlepages and paratexts, and that a market for them developed at different paces in early modern European countries. In some areas, books for children were produced even before the so-called birth of modern children’s literature. Furthermore, this essays shows how the evolution of printing techniques and especially the introduction of colour changed this market, making a wider range of printed products more widely affordable by juvenile audiences as well as more appealing to young eyes.

Blackness, Imperialism, and Nationalism in Dominican Children's Literature

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-61
Author(s):  
Stacy Ann Creech
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Young People ◽  
Educational Reform ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Specific Construction

From pre-Columbian times through to the twentieth century, Dominican children's literature has struggled to define itself due to pressures from outside forces such as imperialism and colonialism. This paper examines the socio-political contexts within Dominican history that determined the kind of literature available to children, which almost exclusively depicted a specific construction of indigeneity, European or Anglo-American characters and settings, in an effort to efface the country's African roots. After the Educational Reform of 1993 was instituted, however, there has been a promising change in the field, as Dominican writers are engaged in producing literature for young people that includes more accurate representations of Blackness and multiculturalism.

scholarly journals Patterns and Trends in Contemporary Canadian Verse-Novels for Young People

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Beverley A. Brenna ◽  
Yina Liu ◽  
Shuwen Sun
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Young People ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Specific Work ◽  
Reluctant Readers ◽  
Verse Novel

This qualitative content analysis identified patterns and trends in a contemporary set of Canadian verse-novels for young people. Twenty-two books were located in our search for titles published between 1995 and 2016, and many of these emerged as award-winners in various contexts including the Governor General’s Award for children’s literature (text). Dresang’s notion of Radical Change, adapted for this interrogation, illuminated particular elements of these societal artifacts worthy of notice. While studies have occurred regarding textual forms or formats and reader characteristics, specific work with the verse-novel and its use with struggling and reluctant readers is limited, with professional articles appearing in place of research-oriented discussions. Scrutiny of available verse-novels is important as it opens a door for explorations of these resources with participants in classroom settings.  

A New Research Agenda on Mass Communication, Social Informatics, and Children’s Literature in US

2014 ◽  
pp. 165-185
Author(s):  
Hsin-Liang Chen ◽  
Robin A. Moeller
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Social Informatics ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Racial Perceptions ◽  
New Research

The rapid development of online environments presents challenges to researchers and scholars in various disciplines; an inter-disciplinary collaboration is needed to understand related societal phenomena in the digital age. The purpose of this chapter is to establish a research framework consisting of mass communication, social informatics, and children’s literature regarding children and their racial perceptions. The uniqueness of this approach is to apply the findings of online readers’ comments on a new story to a particular subject area, children’s literature, in which the authors examine how societal issues are illustrated in popular books. Within this framework, the authors identify three research areas: social awareness through the communication process, social perception through the analysis of social informatics, and social adoption through illustrations in the children’s books.

Reviews: The Ulster Crisis, 1885–1921, Dublin, 1745–1922: Hospitals, Spectacle and Vice, Britain and Ireland, 1050–1530: Economy and Society, Castle Caldwell, County Fermanagh: Life on a West Ulster Estate, 1750–1800, on the Edge of the Pale: The Rise and Decline of an Anglo-Irish Community in County Meath, 1170–1530, the Planters of Luggacurran, County Laois: A Protestant Community, 1879–1927, Balrothery Poor Law Union, County Dublin, 1839–1851, Achill Island Tattie-Hokers in Scotland and the Kirkintilloch Tragedy, 1937, World War I and Nationalist Politics in County Louth, 1914–1920, the Liberty and Ormond Boys: Factional Riot in Eighteenth-Century Dublin, Kiltubrid, County Leitrim: Snapshots of a Rural Parish in the 1890s, the Murder of Thomas Douglas Bateson, County Monaghan, 1851, Sir Robert Gore Booth and his Landed Estate in County Sligo, 1814–1876: Land, Famine, Emigration and Politics, the MacGeough Bonds of the Argory: An Ulster Gentry Family, 1880–1950, Smithfield and the Parish of St Paul, Dublin, 1698–1750, the Murder of Thomas Douglas Bateson, County Monaghan, 1851, Sir Robert Gore Booth and his Landed Estate in County Sligo, 1814–1876: Land, Famine, Emigration and Politics, the MacGeough Bonds of the Argory: An Ulster Gentry Family, 1880–1950, Smithfield and the Parish of St Paul, Dublin, 1698–1750, Canting with Cauley: A Glossary of Travellers' Cant/Gammon, Representing the Troubles: Text and Images, 1970–2000, Representing the Troubles: Text and Images, 1970–2000, Our own Devices: National Symbols and Political Conflict in Twentieth-Century Ireland, County Longford and the Irish Revolution, 1910–1923, Industry, Trade and People in Ireland, 1650–1950: Essays in Honour of W. H. Crawford, Our Good Health: A History of Dublin's Water and Drainage, a Noontide Blazing: Brigid Lyons Thornton, Rebel, Soldier, Doctor, a Memoir, ‘A Town Tormented by the Sea’: Galway, 1790–1914, the Slow Failure: Population Decline and Independent Ireland, 1920–1973, the Irish Lottery, 1780–1801, Medieval Celtic Literature and Society, German-Speaking Exiles in Ireland, 1933–1945, the Nabob: A Tale of Ninety-Eight, Studies in Children's Literature, 1500–2000, Treasure Islands: Studies in Children's Literature, Limerick Boycott, 1904: Anti-Semitism in Ireland, Irish Rural Interiors in Art, the Politics of the Irish Civil War, the Cenél Conaill and the Donegal Kingdoms, AD 500–800, Long Bullets: A History of Road Bowling in Ireland, the Pastoral Role of the Roman Catholic Church in pre-Famine Ireland, 1750–1850, Patrick McAlister, Bishop of down and Connor, 1886–1895, Faith, Fraternity and Fighting: The Orange Order and Irish Migrants in Northern England, C. 1850–1920, the Irish Policeman, 1822–1922: A Life, James Connolly: ‘A Full Life’, James Larkin: Lion of the Fold, Community in Early Modern Ireland, the Irish College at Santiago de Compostela, 1605–1769, a ‘Manly Study’? Irish Women Historians, 1868–1949, Map-Making, Landscapes and Memory: A Geography of Colonial and Early Modern Ireland, C. 1530–1750, the Progress of Music, Ulster Presbyterians in the Atlantic World: Religion, Politics, and Identity

2007 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-162
Author(s):  
Andrew R. Holmes ◽  
Ruth McManus ◽  
Brendan Bradshaw ◽  
Conor McNamara ◽  
Caitriona Clear ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
World War I ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Population Decline ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
The Troubles ◽  
History Of

Children's Literature Review: Excerpts from Reviews, Criticism and Commentary on Books for Children and Young People. Volume 1

1979 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 354
Author(s):  
Jenny Oldfield ◽  
Ann Block ◽  
Carolyn Riley ◽  
Carolyn Riley ◽  
John Mackay Shaw ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Young People ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Children And Young People

Wondrous Tales of Measurement

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 410-413
Author(s):  
Marci A. Malinsky ◽  
Mark McJunkin
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Young People ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Mathematical Concepts

Have you ever considered teaching mathematical concepts through the use of children's literature? One way to begin is to re-create how children learned long ago—elders spinning yarns as twilight deepened, young people caught up in wondrous tales that taught them about their world. To help students make a tactile connection to the experience from long ago, all you need are a skein of yarn and eager students seated in a circle.

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