A Ball for Daisy
A Ball for Daisy

Author: Chris Raschka

Publisher: Schwartz & Wade

Published: 2011-12-21

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 0375988734

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Winner of the 2012 Randolph Caldecott Medal This New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Best Illustrated Book relates a story about love and loss as only Chris Rashcka can tell it. Any child who has ever had a beloved toy break will relate to Daisy's anguish when her favorite ball is destroyed by a bigger dog. In the tradition of his nearly wordless picture book Yo! Yes?, Caldecott Medalist Chris Raschka explores in pictures the joy and sadness that having a special toy can bring. Raschka's signature swirling, impressionistic illustrations and his affectionate story will particularly appeal to young dog lovers and teachers and parents who have children dealing with the loss of something special.

Mother Goose in Prose
Mother Goose in Prose

Author: L. Frank Baum

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2002-05-01

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780486420868

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A collection of twenty-two nursery rhymes, including "Old King Cole" and "Little Bo-Peep," fashioned into full-length stories by the author of "The Wizard of Oz."

The Great Wheel
The Great Wheel

Author: Robert Lawson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2004-10-01

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0802777058

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Eighteen-year-old Conn leaves Ireland and sails to America, where he helps build the first Ferris wheel for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.

A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever
A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever

Author: Marla Frazee

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13: 9780152060206

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Friends James and Eamon enjoy a wonderful week at the home of Eamon's grandparents during summer vacation.

Voyage Into Creativity
Voyage Into Creativity

Author: Roberta Seret

Publisher: Studies in European Thought

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13:

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The narration of the development of the artist has found its literary medium in the genre, the Kunstlerroman. This specific novel traces the embryonic growth of the artist-protagonist from the moment when he exhibits artistic talents to the point when he actually creates. Specific themes, motifs, and structure define the genre. The authors studied are: Hermann Hesse, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, and Theodore Dreiser."

Prelude
Prelude

Author: Katherine Mansfield

Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof

Published: 2017-01-04

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 9176393488

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"There was not an inch of room for Lottie and Kezia in the buggy. When Pat swung them on top of the luggage they wobbled; the grandmother’s lap was full and Linda Burnell could not possibly have held a lump of a child on hers for any distance." The seemingly perfect Burnell family is moving from one house to another, and on the surface, everything appears idyllic. But as the story develops, the tension grows, threating to explode and expose their true nature. ‘Prelude’ (1922) is evidence of Katherine Mansfield’s short fiction genius, and it was the first short story that Virginia Wolf commissioned for her publishing house. Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was short story writer and poet from New Zealand, who settled in England at the age of 19. Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence were among her literary friends and admirers. She died of tuberculosis at the age of 34.

Alice to the Lighthouse
Alice to the Lighthouse

Author: Juliet Dusinberre

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-27

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 1349273570

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Alice to the Lighthouse is the first and only full-length study of the relation between children's literature and writing for adults. Lewis Carroll's Alice books created a revolution in writing for and about children which had repercussions not only for subsequent children's writers - such as Stevenson, Kipling, Nesbit, Frances Hodgson Burnett and Mark Twain - but for Virginia Woolf and her generation. Virginia Woolf's celebration of writing as play rather than preaching is the twin of the Post-Impressionist art championed by Roger Fry. Dusinberre connects books for children in the late nineteenth century with developments in education and psychology, all of which feed into the modernism of the early twentieth century.

Dickens and the Grown-Up Child
Dickens and the Grown-Up Child

Author: M. Andrews

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-01-06

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 0230377998

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The child who stops growing, infantile senility, the 'old-fashioned' child, child-wives and child-mothers, the rejuvenated adult - Dickens's writings parade before us a gallery of bizarre hybrids. Dickens and the Grown-up Child focuses on the complicated and unresolved relationship between childhood and adulthood in Dickens's fictional and non-fictional work. In challenging the familiar view that the source of such anomalies lies in Dickens's own childhood experiences, Malcolm Andrews explores the extent to which Dickens was heir to an older cultural debate about primitivism and progressivism, a debate which Dickens adapted to his own preoccupations with the tensions between childhood and maturity. In examining these issues, Malcolm Andrews concentrates on the fiction of Dickens's middle years, particularly David Copperfield, and on some of the journalistic essays.