n this modern translation of a vintage favorite, watch Suzy enjoy celebrating her birthdays as she grows from a baby to six years old. Whatever surprise happens, Little Suzy joyfully spends her special days with family and friends while learning to be thankful for all that God has given her. She learns to love God with all her heart, and knows that Jesus is her best friend. This is a perfect bedtime story for parents to share a chapter or two with their children each night. Its serene nature has a quieting effect on busy little minds.
Drawing on examples from British world expressions of Christianity, this collection further greater understanding of religion as a critical element of modern children’s and young people’s history. It builds on emerging scholarship that challenges the view that religion had a solely negative impact on nineteenth- and twentieth-century children, or that ‘secularization’ is the only lens to apply to childhood and religion. Putting forth the argument that religion was an abiding influence among British world children throughout the nineteenth and most of the twentieth centuries, this volume places ‘religion’ at the center of analysis and discussion. At the same time, it positions the religious factor within a broader social and cultural framework. The essays focus on the historical contexts in which religion was formative for children in various ‘British’ settings denoted as ‘Anglo’ or ‘colonial’ during the nineteenth and early- to mid-twentieth centuries. These contexts include mission fields, churches, families, Sunday schools, camps, schools and youth movements. Together they are treated as ‘sites’ in which religion contributed to identity formation, albeit in different ways relating to such factors as gender, race, disability and denomination. The contributors develop this subject for childhoods that were experienced largely, but not exclusively, outside the ‘metropole’, in a diversity of geographical settings. By extending the geographic range, even within the British world, it provides a more rounded perspective on children’s global engagement with religion.
Matt and Beth meet at a movie set where she is a young star and he is a script consultant. Beth’s mother describes him to Beth as a very nice man, and she asks Matt to keep an eye on Beth. There’s no doubt that he is nice and she is beautiful, but some dangers lurk, and there is a question: just how young is Beth?
Essays zowel van schrijvers uit het verleden als van hedendaagse vertegenwoordigers, waarin een grote verscheidenheid aan meningen weergegeven wordt over een aantal onderwerpen uit de jeugdliteratuur van verschillende kultuurgebieden, niet alleen uit Amerika, maar ook uit Europese en Aziatische landen
