98 research outputs found
A Hundred Years of Treasure, or Grime Does Not Pay
An appreciation of R.L. Stevenson's Treasure Island on the occasion of its hundredth anniversary in 1983
The Hidden Meaning and the Inner Tale: Deconstruction and the Interpretation of Fairy Tales
A consideration of how Jacques Derrida's ideas about deconstruction might help to illuminate how fairy tales work
Utopian Grandparents
Review of:
Balasubramaniam, Saumiya. When I Found Grandma. Illustrated by Qin Leng, Groundwood, 2019. 32 pp. $17.95 hc. ISBN 9781773060194.
Chabbert, Ingrid. A Drop of the Sea. Illustrated by Guridi, Kids Can, 2018.
Lê, Minh. Drawn Together. Illustrated by Dan Santat, Disney Hyperion 2018.
Sage, James. Old Misery. Illustrated by Russel Ayto, Kids Can, 2018.
Uegaki, Cheri. Ojiichan’s Gift. Illustrated by Genevieve Simms, Kids Can, 2019.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2019.002
I See by Your Outfit: B Westerns and Some Recent Texts about Cowboys
A review of Roderick McGillis' book about B westerns, and its applications to some recent texts of children's literature
Beyond Politics in Bond's Lear
The relationship of Edward's Bond's play Lear to Shakespeare's King Lea
Children's Literature Canon Comment
A discussion of responses to \"Grand Canon Suite,\" my article on the earlier work of the Children's Literature Association Canon Committee, also available here on Academia.edu
Some Presumptuous Generalizations about Fantasy
As the title says: presumptuous, outrageously general, and about what fantasy is. It was written by a very young and callow scholar in 1979
Progressive Utopia: Or, How to Grow Up Without Growing Up.
An overview of the similarities in five novels for girls: Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, Wiggins' Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Porter's Pollyanna, Spyri's Heidi, and Burnett's The Secret Garden
Good, Evil, Knowledge, Power: A Conversation between Carol Matas and Perry Nodelman
In which I interview my fiction-writing collaborator Carol Matas about questions of evil and power in the children's novels she writes on her own
The Collected Photographs of Billy the Kid
An analysis of Michael Ondaatje's Collected Works of Billy theKid
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