ReviewsThe Colour Thief Written by Gabriel Alborozo Bloomsbury Children's Books ISBN: 978-1408847534 Cost: £10.99Andrew Brodie Basics: Let's Do Spelling series Written by Andrew Brodie Bloomsbury ISBN: 978-1472908582 (5-6) Cost: £3.99The Cat, The Dog, Little Red, The Exploding Eggs, The Wolf and Grandma's Wardrobe Written by Diane and Christyan Fox Words and Pictures ISBN: 978-910277003 Cost: £11.99 (hardcover)The Teacher's Guide to Student Mental Health Written by William Dikel WW Norton ISBN: 978-0393708646 Cost: £22Chu's First Day at School Written by Neil Gaiman and Adam Rex Bloomsbury Children's Books ISBN: 978-1408847039 Cost: £10.99The Pencil Book Written by Miri Flower Francis Lincoln ISBN: 978-0711235847 Cost: £9.99

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 (38) ◽  
pp. 56-57
Author(s):  
Viv Hampshire ◽  
Claire Hewson ◽  
Hilary White ◽  
Karen Faux
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Student Mental Health ◽  
Neil Gaiman ◽  
Teacher's Guide

scholarly journals Os "novos" contos de fadas: tradição e inovação em A Bela e a Adormecida, de Gaiman e Riddell

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-56
Author(s):  
Marta Passos Pinheiro ◽  
Sabrina Ramos Gomes
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Graphic Design ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Neil Gaiman ◽  
Illustrated Book

In this article, we investigate tradition and innovation in the work Beauty and the Sleeping by analyzing the construction of the narrative, considering the important role of graphic design and illustrations. In this way, we approach the collaborations between two important British authors: the writer Neil Gaiman and the illustrator ChrisRiddell. As a theoretical reference we give priority to studies on illustration and graphic design of children's books - Nikolajeva and Scott. Moraes, Linden and Ramos -, dialoguing with studies on fairy tales - Betelheim, Corso and Corso, Coelho and Propp. We could observe that even if it is not an illustrated book, according to the English conception of picturebook, the narrative is told not only by the written text, but also by illustrations and graphic design. The dialogue between writer and illustrator and the freedom he had to present his point of view were fundamental for the success of the work.

‘Here in India’: Nineteenth-Century British Women Navigating their Position in the Empire through Children's Literature

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-185
Author(s):  
Jesse Aberbach
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Infants And Children ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Maternal Roles ◽  
Female Writers ◽  
And Control ◽  
Botanical Study

This article considers how the children's books written by two nineteenth-century female writers, Eliza Tabor and Mary Martha Sherwood, when they accompanied their husbands to India, enabled them to navigate this new environment and their position as respectable middle-class women while revealing how India was deemed a place where British childhood was impossible. Just as many women took up botanical study to legitimise their ‘otherwise transgressive presence in imperial spaces’ (McEwan 219), writing for children enabled others to engage with the masculine world of travelling and earning money without compromising their femininity. Addressing their work to children also seems to have helped both writers to deal with the absence of their own children: the Indian climate made it impossibly challenging for most British infants and children. In this way their writing gives expression to what might be termed a crisis of imperial motherhood. Underlying the texts is an anxiety relating to British settlement and an attempt to comprehend and control a place that threatened their maternal roles.

The Adult as Foe or Friend?: Childism in Guus Kuijer's Criticism and Fiction

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Joosen
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Memorial Award ◽  
Adult Reader ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Selection Of

Compared to the attention that children's literature scholars have paid to the construction of childhood in children's literature and the role of adults as authors, mediators and readers of children's books, few researchers have made a systematic study of adults as characters in children's books. This article analyses the construction of adulthood in a selection of texts by the Dutch author and Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award winner Guus Kuijer and connects them with Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's recent concept of ‘childism’ – a form of prejudice targeted against children. Whereas Kuijer published a severe critique of adulthood in Het geminachte kind [The despised child] (1980), in his literary works he explores a variety of positions that adults can take towards children, with varying degrees of childist features. Such a systematic and comparative analysis of the way grown-ups are characterised in children's texts helps to shed light on a didactic potential that materialises in different adult subject positions. After all, not only literary and artistic aspects of children's literature may be aimed at the adult reader (as well as the child), but also the didactic aspect of children's books can cross over between different age groups.

Life in the Open with Charles Frederick Holder

2014 ◽  
Vol 96 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-221
Author(s):  
Jane Apostol
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Sport Fishing ◽  
Prolific Author ◽  
Natural Scientist ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Santa Catalina Island

Natural scientist Charles Frederick Holder settled in Pasadena in 1885. As a prolific author, lecturer, and editor, Holder was a key promoter of the region, sport fishing, and natural science. He wrote popular children’s books as well. He is also remembered as an influential figure in education and the arts and as a founder of the Tuna Club on Santa Catalina Island and the Valley Hunt Club in Pasadena and its Tournament of Roses.

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