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Book SynopsisCatherine Butler is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of the West of England, UK. Kimberley Reynolds is Professor of Children's Literature at Newcastle University, UK.Trade Review'a useful addition to the study of children's literature in English.' - Valerie Coghlan, International Research Society for Children's LiteratureTable of ContentsList of Contributors List of Boxes List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction; Catherine Butler PART I: MAPPING THE TERRITORY 1. The Classic and the Canon in Children's Literature; Peter Hunt 2. Fantasy in Children's Fiction; Farah Mendlesohn 3. Psychoanalytic Approaches to Children's Literature; David Rudd 4. Reading Contemporary Picture Books; Judith Graham 5. Poetry for Children; Michael Rosen PART II: TEXTS AND GENRES 6. Family, Identity and Nationhood: Family Stories in Anglo-American Children's Literature, 1930-2000; Lucy Pearson 7. Theories of Genre and Gender: Change and Continuity in the School Story; Pat Pinsent 8. Literature of War: Comparative and Autobiographical Approaches; Gillian Lathey 9. Language, Genres and Issues: The Socially Committed Novel; Pat Pinsent 10. Past Settings, Contemporary Concerns: Feminist Historical Fiction in the Late Twentieth Century; Peter Bramwell 11. Postmodernism, New Historicism and Postcolonialism: Some Recent Historical Novels; Pat Pinsent PART III: APPROACHES AND ISSUES 12. Chronotopes and Heritage: Time and Memory in Contemporary Children's Literature; Lisa Sainsbury 13. Childhood, Youth Culture and the Uncanny: Uncanny Nights in Contemporary Fiction for Young People; Lisa Sainsbury 14. Magic and Maturation: Uses of Magic in Fantasy Fiction; Peter Bramwell 15. Supermen, Cyborgs, Avatars and Geeks: Technology and the Human in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction; Richard Shakeshaft 16. Voicing Identity: The Dilemma of Narrative Perspective in Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Fiction; Maria Nikolajeva Further Reading Index.

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Book SynopsisThe collection proposes inventive research strategies for the study of the affective and fluctuating dimensions of cultural life. It presents studies of nightclubs, YouTube memes, political provocations, heritage sites, blogging, education development, and haunting memories.Trade Review"Affective Methodologies redefines the way we can work with affect in our research assemblages. In a considered and timely application of affect theory to qualitative research practices, Knudsen and Stage have brought together a diverse collection of scholars. From defining figures in the field such as Blackman and Gibbs, to new voices including To and Kølvraa, this book provides a much needed consolidation of the existing trajectories of scholarship on and of affect while opening new ways forward for qualitative research." - Anna Hickey-Moody, Goldsmiths, University of London, UKTable of Contents1. Introduction: Affective methodologies; Britta Timm Knudsen and Carsten StagePart I: Inventive experiments2. Researching Affect and Embodied Hauntologies: Exploring an Analytics of Experimentation; Lisa Blackman3. Experimenting with affects and senses – A performative pop-up-laboratory (self) critically revisited; Dorthe Staunæs and Jette Kofoed 4. Diasporic montage and critical autoethnography: Mediated visions of intergenerational memory and the affective transmission of trauma; Nathan ToPart II: Embodied fieldwork5. Methods in Motion: Affecting Heritage Research; Emma Waterton and Steve Watson6. Exploring a ' 'remembering crisis ' ': ' 'Affective attuning ' ' and ' 'assemblaged archive ' ' as theoretical frameworks and research methodologies; Elena Trivelli7. The scent of a rose: imitating imitators as they learn to love the Prophet; Mikkel Rytter8. The field note assemblage: Researching the bodily-affective dimensions of drinking and dancing ethnographically; Frederik Bøhling Part III: Textualities9. Affect, Provocation and Far Right Rhetoric; Christoffer Kølvraa10. From Artwork to Net-work: Affective Effects of Political Art; Camilla M. Reestorff11. Writing as Method: Attunement, Resonance and Rhythm; Anna Gibbs12. Epilogue; Celia Lury

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Book SynopsisVanessa Joosen is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, where she specializes in children's literature studies, fairy-tale studies and age studies.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Defining adulthood in children’s books 2. Grown-up children? The adult protagonist in children’s literature 3. Hair, hair, everywhere: The adult body in children’s literature 4. The disdainful adult: Childism in children’s literature 5. From writing block to wonderful friend: The adult writer as character in children’s literature 6. Second childhoods: The elderly adult in children’s literature Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMarek Oziewicz is Professor of Literacy Education and Sidney and Marguerite Henry Professor of Children's and Young Adult Literature at the College of Education and Human Development, Universty of Minnesota - Twin Cities, USA. He is the author of One Earth, One People (2008), which won the 2010 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies; Justice in Young Adult Speculative Fiction (2015); and 5 co-edited collections, and over 50 articles and book chapters. Brian Attebery is Professor of English at Idaho State University, USA and Editor or the Journal of the Fantastic in Art. His publications include Stories about Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth (2019) and Ursula K. Le Guin: Always Coming Home (2019). In 2019 he was Leverhulme Visiting Professor of Fantasy at the University of Glasgow. Tereza Dedinová is Assistant Professor in the Department of Czech Literature, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. She has puTrade ReviewMind opening. * Language and Ecology *The book’s profusion of subjects and clarity of language will make this book compelling reading for scholars of narrative genre while remaining accessible to undergraduate readers. * Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment *The urgings in Fantasy and Myth should be heeded. They may go far to help persuade people that we do not have to live in a dystopian world; that we cannot focus solely on end-of-the-world stories but on “how can we work together to change the world” stories * The Living Church *Generally speaking, so-called fantasy and mythic literature tend to be regarded as enjoyable and yet too unrealistic to enable us to grasp the causes of the real dangers threatening our complex civilized world. This assumption is misleading if not discouraging, for as the numerous essays by notable scholars and artists in Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene demonstrate, fantasy and myth play an important role in helping us deal with the doom and gloom of climate change. Moreover, they provide extraordinary counter narratives that can help us reshape the world. This collection of essays is a wonderful breath of fresh optimistic air and reveals how the anticipatory imagination in contemporary myths and fantasy can help us resist the current ecological dilemma in which we find ourselves. * Jack Zipes, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Academic Contributors List of Artists Introduction: The choice we have in the stories we tell Marek Oziewicz, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA Part I. Trouble in the Air Anthropos and the Air Brian Attebery, Idaho State University, USA From the Third Age to the Fifth Season: confronting the Anthropocene through fantasy Brian Attebery Who knows where the time goes? Nisi Shawl, author, editor and journalist Playing with the trouble: children and the Anthropocene in Nnedi Okorafor’s Akata Witch series Lindsay Burton,University of Cambridge, UK Rewrite Katherine Applegate, author Staying with the singularity: nonhuman narrators and more-than-human mythologies Alexander Popov, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria The eye of the story Joseph Bruchac / Nokidahozid, author Fantasy for the Anthropocene: on the ecocidal unconscious, planetarianism, and imagination of biocentric futures Marek Oziewicz AstroNuts, the origin story Jon Scieszka, author Part II. Dreaming the Earth Anthropos and the Earth Brian Attebery Embodying the permaculture story: Terry Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching series Tereza Dedinová, Masaryk University, Czechia Where is the place for seagrass and weevils in children’s literature? Eliot Schrefer, Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA Arboreal magic and kinship in the Chthulucene: Margaret Mahy’s trees Melanie Duckworth Just imagine Barbara Henderson, author From portable landscapes to themed thrill rides: Rowling’s heterotopic hopescapes Stephanie Weaver, Savannah College of Art and Design, USA Does fantasy literature have a place in the climate change crisis? Craig Russell, USA “The earth is my home too, can’t I help protect it?”: Planetary thinking, queer identities and environmentalism in The Legend of Korra, She-Ra and Steven Universe Aneesh Barai, University of Sheffield, UK Celebrations of resilience Elin Kelsey, author and scholar Part III: Visions in the Water Anthropos and the Ocean Brian Attebery Kim Stanley Robinson’s case for hope in New York 2140 John Rieder, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, USA Myth makes us see Adam Gidwitz, author Sleeping with the fishmen: reimagining the Anthropocene through oceanic-chthonic kinships Prema Arasu, University of Western Australia, Australia and Drew Thornton, Curtin University, USA Fish Girl’s dilemma Donna Jo Napoli, author From culture hero to emissions zero: critiquing Maui’s extractivist mindset in Disney’s Moana Christopher D. Foley, University of Southern Mississippi, USA Finding balance and hope in the Indigenous past David Bowles, author Reimagining youth relations with Moananuiakea (The large, expansive ocean): contemporary Niuhi Mo‘olelo (man-eating shark stories) and environmental activism Caryn Kunz Lesuma, Brigham Young University, USA The future that has yet to be imagined Shaun Tan, artist writer and film maker Part IV: Playing with Fire Anthropos and the Fire Brian Attebery Convert or kill: disanthropocentric systems and religious myth in Jemisin’s Broken Earth Derek J. Thiess, University of North Georgia, USA Reimaging the upright ape Jane Yolen, author Myths of (un)creation: narrative strategies for confronting the Anthropocene Jacob Burg, Boston University, USA The stepping stone, the Boulder, and the Star: a fable for the Anthropocene Grace L. Dillon, Portland State University, USA On monsters and other matters of housekeeping:reading Jeff VanderMeer with Donna Haraway and Ursula K. Le Guin Kim Hendrickx, University of Leuven, Belgium The seriousness of writing funny Molly B. Burnham, author Literalizing hyperobjects: on (mis)representing global warming in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones Markus Laukkanen, Tampere University, Finland Index

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Book SynopsisDr Elen Caldecott?is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Lancaster University, UK. She is the author of 12 novels and dozens of early readers for young people. Her debut novel,?How Kirsty Jenkins Stole the Elephant?(Bloomsbury, 2009) was shortlisted for the Waterstone's Children's Prize. Her most recent novel The Blackthorn Branch (Andersen 2022) was longlisted for the 2023 Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing. Her website is https://elencaldecott.com/

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Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling author of The Tall Man and The Arsonist, a personal tale about death, life and the enchantment of stories. With illustrations by Anna Walker.‘A striking voyage of discovery.’ Observer Let me tell you a story… When Chloe Hooper’s partner is diagnosed with a rare and aggressive illness, she has to find a way to tell their two young sons. By instinct, she turns to the bookshelf. Can the news be broken as a bedtime tale? Is there a perfect book to prepare children for loss? Hooper embarks on a quest to find what practical lessons children’s literature—with its innocent orphans and evil adults, magic, monsters and anthropomorphic animals—can teach about grief and resilience in real life. As she discovers, ‘the right words are an incantation, a spell of hope for the future.’ From the Brothers Grimm to FrancTrade Review‘This book is a miracle of light and meaning-making from one of our finest writers. Venturing inward with extraordinary grace, Hooper explores – and extends – the long literary line surging with our deepest inherited wisdom about how to embrace our finite lives. The result is nothing less than the hero's journey we have been collectively starving for. Telling you this is like trying to describe the sun; it is a book so powerful and beautiful – so utterly its own – that it can only be experienced directly.’ Sarah Krasnostein -- Sarah Krasnostein

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Book SynopsisJanice Bland is Professor of English Education at Nord University, Norway. She is co-editor of the peer-reviewed, open-access journal, Children's Literature in English Language Education.Christiane Lütge is Professor of English at Münster University, Germany. She is co-editor of the peer-reviewed e-journal Children's Literature in English Language Education.Trade ReviewChildren's Literature in Second Language Acquisition is perfect reading material for older and new generation teachers because it offers practical examples they can transfer into their classrooms . . . Interesting and motivating -- Petra Bes * Libri et Liberi journal *Table of Contents1. Introduction Janice Bland Part I: Extensive Reading with Children's Literature 2. Free Reading: Still a Great Idea Stephen Krashen 3. Efficient Use of Literature in Second Language Education: Free Reading and Listening to Stories Beniko Mason 4. Extensive Reading of Picturebooks in Primary EFL Annika Kolb 5. Free Space: An Extensive Reading Project in a Flemish School Johan Strobbe Part II: Visual Literacy with Picturebooks and Graphic Novels in ELT 6. Approaching Literary and Language Competence: Picturebooks and Graphic Novels in the EFL Classroom Eva Burwitz-Melzer 7. Picturebook: Object of Discovery Sandie Mourão 8. Fairy Tales with a Difference: Creating a Continuum from Primary to Secondary ELT Janice Bland Part III: Intercultural Encounters with Children’s Literature 9. Otherness in Children's Literature: Perspectives for the EFL Classroom Christiane Lütge 10. Doing Identity, Doing Culture: Transcultural Learning through Young Adult Fiction Susanne Reichl 11. Developing Intercultural Competence by Studying Graphic Narratives Carola Hecke 12. 'We are Britain!' Culture and Ethnicity in Benjamin Zephaniah's Novels Sigrid Rieuwerts 13. Taiwanese Adolescents Reading American Young Adult Literature: A Reader Response Study Lee Li-Feng 14. Developing Intercultural Competence through First Nations’ Children’s Literature Grit Alter Part IV: Empowerment and Creativity through Story 15. Creative Writing for Second Language Students Alan Maley 16. Young Adult Literature in Mixed-Ability Classes Maria Eisenmann 17. Enhancing Self-Esteem and Positive Attitudes through Children's Literature Paola Traverso 18. The 'Art' of Teaching Creative Story Writing Maria Luisa García Bermejo and Teresa Fleta Guillén 19. Stories as Symphonies Andrew Wright 20. Conclusion Christiane Lütge Bibliography Index

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Trade ReviewThis is an important publication for all working in English language education, not only for those working and researching young learner and teenage learning, but for those involved in reading and in the reading of literature ... Bland writes clearly and intelligently and has productively absorbed and applied a wealth of relevant and recent research ... I am convinced [this book] will become widely cited and known as more relevant readers find it, read it and see the need to recommend the author and the title ... and I would be pleased if this review can contribute to a speedier uptake of the ideas found therein * CLELE Journal *Relevant and accessible ... For me undoubtedly [this book's] strongest point is that every approach advocated is exemplified with engaging texts and tasks. The book is very persuasive in that all its major points are supported by relevant references to credible research ... [A] very impressive and valuable book which I really enjoyed reading. * ELT Journal *This is a comprehensive, innovative and thematically coherent book which provides powerful arguments for engaging with a wide variety of genres within children’s and young adult literature ... A worthwhile contribution to modern EFL teaching methodology -- Maria Eisenmann * Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies *With confident writing on children's literature as a 'highly expressive carrier of cultural meaning', the book contains excellent close readings of many picturebooks and graphic novels ... Packed with good ideas for using selected books as positive resources for literary language learning -- Victoria de Rijke, Middlesex University, UK * IRSCL *Bland’s volume does indeed fulfil her aim of generating a rationale for selecting works of children’s literature for use in EFL classrooms and identifying how certain kinds of literature might empower learners ... I have already added it to my own student teachers’ reading lists. -- Lydia Kokkola, Head of English and Education, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden * International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL) *[An] impressive feature of the book is the close segmental reading of diverse examples of children’s literature and graphic novels ... Children’s Literature and Learner Empowerment provides a theoretical and practical approach to providing ELL primary and secondary school learners with the use of authentic and engaging materials. * IATEFL Voices *It is quite natural to expect a book like this from Janice Bland ... Bland communicates her ideas fluently ... and she offers abundant references that are often interwoven with her own thoughts. She manages to construct a clear message that certainly finds its way to the reader ... In this way, student teachers are led in a valuable direction -- Silvija Hanžic Deda * Libri et Liberi journal *Put tersely, Bland’s Children’s Literature and Learner Empowerment is a spirited argument for using original, unabridged children’s and YA literature in the EFL classroom in place of truncated, artificial texts ... [Bland's book] offer[s] insights and arguments that will be valid long after academic capitalism has passed from the scene. No matter where your specific interest in children’s literature lies, these are important books to read. -- Marek Oziewicz, Marguerite Henry Professor of Children’s and Young Adult Fiction, University of Minnesota * The Lion and the Unicorn *This is a comprehensive, innovative, thought-provoking and topical book on children's literature which is equally relevant to scholars working in the field plus to teachers and students of languages and literature. * Werner Delanoy, Professor in the Department of English and American Studies, University of Klagenfurt, Austria *At a time when there is an increasing demand for the effective teaching of EFL and ESL/EAL, this book provides powerful arguments for engaging with a wide variety of genres within children’s and young adult literature and shows how constructing meaning from ‘well-crafted’ texts – including visual and radical texts – can help develop ‘literary literacy’ for children of all ages. Teacher educators will benefit most from the interdisciplinary nature of the book as the author shows how children’s literature scholarship is linked to TEFL theory and practice. However, the result of bringing these two fields together provides exciting new perspectives for all those interested in critical reading and creative writing with children and teenagers. * Evelyn Arizpe, Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, University of Glasgow, UK *Janice Bland’s new book is careful, precise and very fully referenced. She makes a compelling case for the need for teachers and other educators to pay more serious attention to the potential offered by children’s picturebooks. Literary and visual experience is shown to lead to engagement and creative thinking in the classroom which graded readers, extracts or non-fictional materials are unlikely to stimulate. Teachers of the ever-growing numbers of young learners of English in particular should pay close attention to this book. It should be on teacher training booklists and on the shelves of all good Education libraries. * Geoff Hall, Professor of English, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Introduction: The EFL Literature Classroom Part I: Visual Literacy in the EFL Literature Classroom 2. Developing the Mind’s Eye with Picturebooks 3. Bridging a Curricular Gap with Graphic Novels Part II : Literary Literacy in the EFL-Literature Classroom 4. Postmodern Fairy Tales: Co-constructing Meaning 5. The Poetry of Children’s Literature and Creative Writing 6. Children’s Plays: Beyond the Oracy/Literacy Dichotomy Part III: Critical Cultural Literacy in the EFL Literature Classroom 7. Radical Children’s Literature and Engaged Reading 8. Harry Potter and Critical Cultural Literacy Conclusion Bibliography References Index

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Book SynopsisNow at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story . . .Bestselling authors Kurt Bruner and Jim Ware (Finding God in The Lord of the Rings) once again explore a world of fantasy to reveal what C. S. Lewis called the Great Story hidden within. For more than 70 years, adults and children alike have stepped through the wardrobe, and their imaginations have been baptized in Lewis's mystical world of wonder and enchantment. Lewis fans will love the many surprising insights the authors uncover, and parents will discover new ways to show their children God's character and presence in their lives.With more than 100 million copies sold, The Chronicles of Narnia capture more imaginations today than ever before. In Finding God in the Land of Narnia, you'll see how Lewis expertly wraps spiritual truths into his classic tales, and you'll discover the truth of what the great Lion, Aslan, says about our brief sojourn through Narnia: By knowi

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Book SynopsisEvaluating and Promoting Nonfiction for Children and Young Adults isn't another bibliography that will quickly become outdated. Instead, it situates nonfiction resources within the recent emphasis on reading nonfiction as a way of enhancing critical thinking and combating susceptibility to fake news.

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Book SynopsisEvaluating and Promoting Nonfiction for Children and Young Adults isn't another bibliography that will quickly become outdated. Instead, it situates nonfiction resources within the recent emphasis on reading nonfiction as a way of enhancing critical thinking and combating susceptibility to fake news.

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Book SynopsisThe essays in Home Words explore the complexity of the idea of home through various theoretical lenses and groupings of texts. One focus of this collection is the relation between the discourses of nation, which often represent the nation as home, and the discourses of home in children's literature, which variously picture home as a dwelling, family, town or region, psychological comfort, and a place to start from and return to. These essays consider the myriad ways in which discourses of home underwrite both children's and national literatures. Home Words reconfigures the field of Canadian children's literature as it is usually represented by setting the study of English- and French-language texts side by side, and by paying sustained attention to the diversity of work by Canadian writers for children, including both Aboriginal peoples and racialized Canadians. It builds on the literary histories, bibliographical essays, and biographical criticism that have dominated the scholarship to date and sets out to determine and establish new directions for the study of Canadian children's literature.

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Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking book, Ken Parille seeks to do for nineteenth-century boys what the past three decades of scholarship have done for girls: show how the complexities of the fiction and educational materials written about them reflect the lives they lived. While most studies of nineteenth-century boyhood have focused on post-Civil War male novelists, Parille explores a broader archive of writings by male and female authors, extending from 1830-1885. Boys at Home offers a series of arguments about five pedagogical modes: play-adventure, corporal punishment, sympathy, shame, and reading. The first chapter demonstrates that, rather than encouraging boys to escape the bonds of domesticity, scenes of play in boys' novels reproduce values associated with the home. Chapter 2 argues that debates about corporal punishment are crucial sources for the culture's ideas about gender difference and pedagogical practice. In chapter 3, ""The Medicine of Sympathy,"" Parille examines the affective nature of mother-daughter and mother-son bonds, emphasizing the special difficulties that ""boy-nature"" posed for women. The fourth chapter uses boys' conduct literature and Louisa May Alcott's Little Women -the preeminent chronicle of girlhood in the century -to investigate not only Alcott's fictional representations of shame-centered discipline but also pervasive cultural narratives about what it means to ""be a man."" Focusing on works by Lydia Sigourney and Francis Forrester, the final chapter considers arguments about the effects that fictional, historical, and biographical narratives had on a boy's sense of himself and his masculinity. Boys at Home is an important contribution to the emerging field of masculinity studies. In addition, this provocative volume brings new insight to the study of childhood, women's writing, and American culture.

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