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Author: Alethea Helbig
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1985-12-23
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0313225907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides critical reviews of award-winning children's books, biographical information on authors, entries on unusual characters, and an extensive index.
Author: Alethea Helbig
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1985-12-23
Total Pages: 696
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides critical reviews of award-winning children's books, biographical information on authors, entries on unusual characters, and an extensive index.
Author: Agnes Regan Perkins
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1996-11-01
Total Pages: 490
ISBN-13: 1567507905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten for librarians, teachers, and researchers, this is the second five-year supplement to the authors' Dictionary of American Children's Fiction, 1960-1984 (Greenwood, 1986). Its 567 entries cover 189 award-winning children's books by 136 authors published from 1990 to 1994. Included are concise critical reviews of novels, biographical profiles of authors, and descriptions of memorable characters. An appendix lists books by the awards they have won, and an extensive index allows complete access to the wealth of material contained within this reference work. Included are alphabetically arranged entries for those works that critics have singled out to receive awards or have placed on citation lists during the five years covered by the volume. The reference also contains biographical entries for leading authors of children's fiction, with entries focusing on how the author's life relates to children's literature and to particular works in this dictionary. The volume provides a list of awards, along with an appendix classifying individual works by the awards they have won. An extensive index provides full access to the wealth of information in this book.
Author: Alethea K. Helbig
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1993-04-13
Total Pages: 392
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA supplement to two earlier volumes on American children's fiction from 1859 to 1984, this new dictionary, the first of a projected series of five-year updates, covers 134 award-winning books published from 1985 to 1989 with detailed factual material and insightful critical appraisal. Included in the more than 400 entries are book title entries, which provide plot summary and literary analysis; author entries, which stress major contributions to children's literature and significant biographical facts; character entries, which identify and describe memorable characters and analyze characterization; and miscellaneous entries on certain settings and other elements needing additional explanation. An appendix classifies the books under major awards given for the period in question. The extensive index, while providing access to specific names and terms, also identifies broad themes and subjects relating to fictional genres, narrative structures, and elements of style and tone. Taken together with its predecessors, this volume will be valuable for use in university, school, and public libraries, and by librarians, educators, parents, and scholars of children's literature and American culture.
Author: Barbara A. White
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-05-07
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 1136290931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn annotated bibliography on women who wrote fiction in the US during the period 1790-1870. The first part is an annotated list of sources that discuss women's fiction in the period and women authors born before 1840 who published before 1870. The second part is an alphabetical list of the approximately 325 19th century writers who meet those criteria. There are indexes by pseudonym, editor, and subject. The sources provide information not only about the individual authors but also about the history of criticism and literary politics, especially women's place in the American literary canon.
Author: Jack O'Gorman
Publisher: American Library Association
Published: 2014-02-25
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0838919766
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on new reference sources published since 2008 and reference titles that have retained their relevance, this new edition brings O’Gorman’s complete and authoritative guide to the best reference sources for small and medium-sized academic and public libraries fully up to date.
Author: Henryk Sawoniak
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-02-14
Total Pages: 1284
ISBN-13: 3110975068
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Vicki Anderson
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2004-11-23
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 0786418435
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith their rakish characters, sensationalist plots, improbable adventures and objectionable language (like swell and golly), dime novels in their heyday were widely considered a threat to the morals of impressionable youth. Roundly criticized by church leaders and educators of the time, these short, quick-moving, pocket-sized publications were also, inevitably, wildly popular with readers of all ages. This work looks at the evolution of the dime novel and at the authors, publishers, illustrators, and subject matter of the genre. Also discussed are related types of children's literature, such as story papers, chapbooks, broadsides, serial books, pulp magazines, comic books and today's paperback books. The author shows how these works reveal much about early American life and thought and how they reflect cultural nationalism through their ideological teachings in personal morality and ethics, humanitarian reform and political thought. Overall, this book is a thoughtful consideration of the dime novel's contribution to the genre of children's literature. Eight appendices provide a wealth of information, offering an annotated bibliography of dime novels and listing series books, story paper periodicals, characters, authors and their pseudonyms, and more. A reference section, index and illustrations are all included.
Author: M. Daphne Kutzer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1996-01-09
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 0313064229
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMulticultural fiction is an essential part of the American literary landscape. This reference helps scholars, teachers, and librarians choose significant texts from both the past and present, and provides guidance in approaching multicultural issues as they are discussed in fiction for young adults. Included are entries for 51 writers, some of whom have nearly been forgotten, others who are just emerging. Each entry provides biographical, critical, and bibliographical information, while a general bibliography of works on multicultural literature concludes the book. Authors included range from the nearly forgotten, such as Laura Adams Armer, to the newly discovered, such as Graham Salisbury, winner of the 1994 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. The breadth of authors covered ensures an historical context for the issues raised by multiculturalism, and the sections on the critical reception of each author address such important issues as the authority and authenticity of the writer to comment on a different culture. Contributors are of many different ethnicities and include important scholars of children's literature, lending authenticity and authority to the volume itself.
Author: Millicent Lenz
Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 360
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescriptions and critical assessments of more than 600 books, magazines, and databases for the selection of print and nonprint resources.
