CO-PUBLISHED BY ROUTLEDGE AND THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH Bringing together arts-integrated approaches, literacy learning, and classroom-based research, this book explores ways upper elementary, middle, and high school teachers can engage their students physically, cognitively and…
Paperback – 2017-12-22
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Originally published in 1998. This book presents a model of social-contextual influences on children’s literacy and literate language. Literate language is similar to the language teachers use and to the language used in reading books for young children. Based on a longitudinal study in homes and…
Hardback – 2017-12-15
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Routledge Library Editions: Literacy
From fairy tales like "Little Red Riding Hood" to picture books, such as Birmingham, 1963 to women’s graphic memoirs like One Hundred Demons, this study stakes a claim for paying attention to what texts for and about the girl have been saying about schooling beyond their official presence in…
Hardback – 2017-12-13
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Children's Literature and Culture
Bringing together musicologists, literature scholars, and specialists in childhood and theater studies, this volume examines the ways in which successful children's musicals tap into adult nostalgia for childhood while appealing to the needs and consumer potential of the child. The contributors…
Hardback – 2017-12-01
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Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
From Jo March of Little Women (1868) to Katniss Everdeen of The Hunger Games (2008), the American tomboy figure has evolved into an icon of modern girlhood and symbol of female empowerment. Battling Girlhood: Sympathy, Social Justice, and the Tomboy Figure in American Literature traces the…
Hardback – 2017-12-01
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Children's Literature and Culture
Containing 48 essays by leading and new scholars, The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks is the ultimate guide to picturebooks. It contains a detailed introduction, surveying the history and development of the field and emphasising the international and cultural diversity of picturebooks. Divided…
Hardback – 2017-11-29
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Routledge Literature Companions
Inviting multiple ways of critically engaging with literature, this text offers a fresh perspective on how to integrate children’s literature into and across the curriculum in effective, purposeful ways. Structured around three "mantras" that build on each other—Enjoy; Dig deeper; Take action—the…
Paperback – 2017-11-27
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In the light of the complex demographic shifts associated with late modernity and the impetus of neo-liberal politics, childhood continues all the more to operate as a repository for the articulation of diverse social and cultural anxieties. Since the Thatcher years, juvenile delinquency, child…
Hardback – 2017-11-14
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Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
Taking Isaac Watts's Divine Songs (1715) as its point of departure, this collection gives sustained attention to the literary, aesthetic, theoretical, and philosophical dimensions of seminal works of children’s poetry from the eighteenth century to the present. While attending to central figures of…
Hardback – 2017-11-07
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Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
Translating Picturebooks examines the role of illustration in the translation process of picturebooks and how the word-image interplay inherent in the medium can have an impact both on translation practice and the reading process itself. The book draws on a wide range of picturebooks published and…
Hardback – 2017-10-09
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Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
Movable books are an innovative area of children’s publishing. Commonly equated with spectacular pop-ups, movable books have a little-known history as interactive, narrative media. Since they are hybrid artifacts consisting of words, images and movable components, they cross the borders between…
Hardback – 2017-10-02
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Children's Literature and Culture
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…
Paperback – 2017-09-30
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