The Tall Book of Make-Believe
Author: Jane Werner
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
Published: 1950-01-01
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9780060265069
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Tales of Magic and Make-believe
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9780861122004
DOWNLOAD EBOOK5-Minute Enchanting Tales
Author: Rosie Greening
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Published: 2019-11
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781789472905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCome and explore the magical world of unicorns, mermaids, fairies, and much more!This enchanting collection brings each story to life with beautiful illustrations and fun rhymes. With two-way sequins on the cover!AN ENCHANTING COLLECTION OF MAGICAL STORIES
Look and Tell Fairy Tales
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Published: 2016-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781785985126
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLook and Tell Fairy Tales is a beautifully illustrated collection of well-known fairy stories, retold in rebus format to encourage young readers to join in. The delightful stories are retold using a combination of pictures and simple text and each story is accompanied by a page of illustrated key words, which are labelled to provide children with a reference point when they read.
The Natural History of Make-believe
Author: John Goldthwaite
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 0195038061
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Man in the Moon has dropped down to earth for a visit. Over the hedge, a rabbit in trousers is having a pipe with his evening paper. Elsewhere, Alice is passing through a looking glass, Dorothy riding a tornado to Oz, and Jack climbing a beanstalk to heaven. To enter the world of children's literature is to journey to a realm where the miraculous and the mundane exist side by side, a world that is at once recognizable and real--and enchanted. Many books have probed the myths and meanings of children's stories, but Goldthwaite's Natural History is the first exclusively to survey the magic that lies at the heart of the literature. From the dish that ran away with the spoon to the antics of Brer Rabbit and Dr. Seuss's Cat in the Hat, Goldthwaite celebrates the craft, the invention, and the inspired silliness that fix these tales in our minds from childhood and leave us in a state of wondering to know how these things can be. Covering the three centuries from the fairy tales of Charles Perrault to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, he gathers together all the major imaginative works of America, Britain, and Europe to show how the nursery rhyme, the fairy tale, and the beast fable have evolved into modern nonsense verse and fantasy. Throughout, he sheds important new light on such stock characters as the fool and the fairy godmother and on the sources of authors as diverse as Carlo Collodi, Lewis Carroll, and Beatrix Potter. His bold claims will inspire some readers and outrage others. He hails Pinocchio, for example, as the greatest of all children's books, but he views C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia as a parable that is not only murderously misogynistic, but deeply blasphemous as well. Fresh, incisive, and utterly original, this rich literary history will be required reading for anyone who cares about children's books and their enduring influence on how we come to see the world.
Mimesis as Make-Believe
Author: Kendall L. Walton
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780674576032
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRepresentations in visual arts and fiction play an important part in our lives and culture. Walton presents a theory of the nature of representation, which shows its many varieties and explains its importance. His analysis is illustrated with examples from film, art, literature and theatre.
Making Make-Believe Real
Author: Garry Wills
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014-06-10
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 0300197535
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShakespeare’s plays abound with kings and leaders who crave a public stage and seize every opportunity to make their lives a performance: Antony, Cleopatra, Richard III, Othello, and many others. Such self-dramatizing characters appear in the work of other playwrights of the era as well, Marlowe’s Edward II and Tamburlaine among them. But Elizabethan playwrights were not alone in realizing that a sense of theater was essential to the exercise of power. Real rulers knew it, too, and none better than Queen Elizabeth. In this fascinating study of political stagecraft in the Elizabethan era, Garry Wills explores a period of vast cultural and political change during which the power of make-believe to make power real was not just a theory but an essential truth. Wills examines English culture as Catholic Christianity’s rituals were being overturned and a Protestant queen took the throne. New iconographies of power were necessary for the new Renaissance liturgy to displace the medieval church-state. The author illuminates the extensive imaginative constructions that went into Elizabeth’s reign and the explosion of great Tudor and Stuart drama that provided the imaginative power to support her long and successful rule.
The Case For Make Believe
Author: Susan Linn
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2009-07-01
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1595586563
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Case for Make Believe, Harvard child psychologist Susan Linn tells the alarming story of childhood under siege in a commercialized and technology-saturated world. Although play is essential to human development and children are born with an innate capacity for make believe, Linn argues that, in modern-day America, nurturing creative play is not only countercultural—it threatens corporate profits. A book with immediate relevance for parents and educators alike, The Case for Make Believe helps readers understand how crucial child's play is—and what parents and educators can do to protect it. At the heart of the book are stories of children at home, in school, and at a therapist's office playing about real-life issues from entering kindergarten to a sibling's death, expressing feelings they can't express directly, and making meaning of an often confusing world. In an era when toys come from television and media companies sell videos as brain-builders for babies, Linn lays out the inextricable links between play, creativity, and health, showing us how and why to preserve the space for make believe that children need to lead fulfilling and meaningful lives.
Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes
Author: Douglas E. Cowan
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2019-01-29
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 0520293983
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMagic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes looks at fantasy film, television, and participative culture as evidence of our ongoing need for a mythic vision—for stories larger than ourselves into which we write ourselves and through which we can become the heroes of our own story. Why do we tell and retell the same stories over and over when we know they can’t possibly be true? Contrary to popular belief, it’s not because pop culture has run out of good ideas. Rather, it is precisely because these stories are so fantastic, some resonating so deeply that we elevate them to the status of religion. Illuminating everything from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Dungeons and Dragons, and from Drunken Master to Mad Max, Douglas E. Cowan offers a modern manifesto for why and how mythology remains a vital force today.
Minders of Make-believe
Author: Leonard S. Marcus
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780395674079
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMarcus offers this animated history of the visionaries--editors, illustrators, and others--whose books have transformed American childhood and American culture.
