Children’s Literature 2020 HIGHLIGHT READING CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
A Critical Introduction, Second Edition Carrie Hintz & Eric L. Tribunella Jun 2019 624pp, 85 illustrations 9781554814435 Paperback US$50.95
Offers insights into the major discussions and debates currently animating the field of children's literature. Informed by recent scholarship and interest in cultural studies and critical theory, this is a compact core text that introduces students to the historical contexts, genres, and issues of children's literature. A beautifully designed and illustrated supplement to individual literary works assigned, it also provides apparatus that makes it a complete resource for working with children’s literature during and after the course. This second edition includes a new chapter on children’s literature and popular culture (including film, television, and merchandising) and has been updated throughout to reflect recent scholarship and new offerings in children’s media.
CONSIDERING CHILDREN'S LITERATURE A Reader
Edited by Andrea Schwenke Wyile & Teya Rosenberg 2008 390pp 9781551116044 Paperback US$40.75
A collection of previously published essays on a variety of topics that inform the study of children's literature. Exploring issues such as censorship, the canon, the meanings of fairy tales, and the adaptation of children’s literature into film, the essays in this anthology are as diverse as they are illuminating.
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FAIRY TALES IN POPULAR CULTURE Edited by Martin Hallett & Barbara Karasek 2014 224pp 9781554811441 Paperback US$26.50
Shows how the fairy tale has been adapted to meet the needs of the contemporary world; how writers, film-makers, artists and other communicators have found in its universality an ideal vehicle for speaking to the here-and-now; and how social media has created a participatory culture that has re-invented the folktale. In addition, the anthology provides a selection of critical pieces that offer lively insight into various aspects of the fairy tale as popular culture. BESTSELLER
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MARVELOUS TRANSFORMATIONS
An Anthology of Fairy Tales and Contemporary Critical Perspectives Edited by Christine A. Jones & Jennifer Schacker 2012 584pp 9781554810437 Paperback US$40.75
Provides an innovative anthology of fairy tales and related criticism that reflects current, interdisciplinary scholarship on oral traditions and the cultural history of the fairy tale. Tales range chronologically from ancient Egypt to the twenty-first century, and include examples from the Middle East, India, Japan, and Central America as well as Europe and North America.
THE MEANINGS OF “BEAUTY & THE BEAST” A Handbook
Jerry Griswold 2004 258pp, 23 illustrations 9781551115634 Paperback US$35.75
Using Beaumont's classic story as a touchstone, this work shows how “Beauty & the Beast” takes on many different meanings as it is analysed by psychologists, illustrated in picture books, adapted to the screen, and rewritten by contemporary writers. The Meanings of “Beauty & the Beast” provides expert commentary on the tale and on representative critical approaches and contemporary adaptations.
FOLK & FAIRY TALES
MY MOTHER'S VOICE
Edited by Martin Hallett & Barbara Karasek 2011 168pp, illustrations 9781554810185 Paperback US$20.25
Adrienne Kertzer 2001 384pp 9781551113401 Paperback US$35.75
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Children, Literature, and the Holocaust
This concise version of Hallett and Karasek's anthology is designed to provide an inexpensive, flexible collection of important fairy tales. It includes comparative versions of classic tales (Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and a selection of coming-of-age tales) from different cultures and time periods; colour illustrations; and a brief selection of related criticism.
How do children’s books represent the Holocaust? How do such books negotiate the tension between the desire to protect children, and the commitment to tell children the truth about the world? Kertzer uses the lens of children’s literature to problematise the ways in which various adult discourses represent the Holocaust, and continually challenges the conventional belief that children’s literature is the place for easy answers and optimistic lessons.
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ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN
AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND
Mark Twain Edited by Stephen Railton 2011 448pp, 174 illustrations 9781554810048 Paperback US$14.95
From its first appearance onward, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been both praised and condemned, enshrined as one of the world's great novels and banned from libraries and classrooms. This edition is designed to enable modern readers to explore the sources of its greatness, and also to take a fresh, openminded look at the source of the current controversy about its place in the canon: its representation of race and slavery.
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER Mark Twain Edited by Lucy Rollin 2006 320pp 9781551116525 Paperback US$12.95
Twain’s recounting of Tom Sawyer’s many escapades is by turns nostalgic, satiric, wise, and hilarious. In addition to the full text of the novel based on the first American edition, complete with a selection of the original illustrations by True Williams, this Broadview edition provides a wide range of appendices that place the novel in the context of 1840s rural America as well as 1870s literary America.
ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND AND THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS Lewis Carroll Edited by Richard Kelly 2015 464pp, 80 illustrations 9781554812417 Paperback US$17.25
First published in 1865, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland began as a story told to Alice Liddell and her two sisters on a boating trip in July 1862. The sequel, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, was published in 1871. Along with both novels and the original Tenniel illustrations, this edition includes Carroll's earlier story Alice's Adventures Under Ground and appendices.
For twenty-six years after his first mention of the character, J.M. Barrie worked on the story of Peter Pan as he appeared through different incarnations: The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (1904), the illustrated novella Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906), the Epilogue to the play "An After Thought" (1908), the novel Peter and Wendy (1911), two short stories, and finally a longer version of the original play. This edition includes not only the novel and revised play, but also an earlier novella and the previously unpublished original play.
This is the only edition of George MacDonald's influential novel for children to include an introduction, annotation, and extra historical materials. Appendices include essays on childhood by contemporaries such as John Ruskin and Charles Dickens, as well as contextualising selections from Victorian fantasy and fairy tales.
THE CALL OF THE WILD
Jack London Edited by Nicholas Ruddick 2010 200pp 9781551118444 Paperback US$15.95
THE PRINCESS AND THE GOBLIN AND OTHER FAIRY TALES
A classic of young adult literature. This edition provides information on the work's literary and cultural backgrounds. It is about Buck, a big mongrel who is shipped from his comfortable life in California to Alaska, where he must adapt to the harsh life of a sled dog during the Klondike Gold Rush. The appendices include material on the North, Darwinism, and the history of psychology. BESTSELLER
THE GOVERNESS
Sarah Fielding Edited by Candace Ward 2005 242pp, illustrations 9781551114125 Paperback US$23.50
Second Edition
The novel follows Alice down a rabbit-hole and into a world of strange and wonderful characters. This second edition includes Carroll's earlier story Alice's Adventures Under Ground, which allows readers to trace the revisions and to compare Carroll's own illustrations in the original with the famous John Tenniel illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This edition also includes new appendix material.
PETER PAN
J. M. Barrie Edited by Anne Hiebert Alton 2011 300pp 9781551117935 Paperback US$17.25
George MacDonald Edited by Roderick McGillis & John Pennington 2011 406pp 9781554810307 Paperback US$21.25
ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND Lewis Carroll Edited by Richard Kelly 2011 344pp 9781554810390 Paperback US$15.25
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Published in 1749, the story of Mrs. Teachum and the nine pupils who make up her "little female academy" is widely recognised as the first full-length novel for children, and the first to be aimed specifically at girls. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction that places The Governess in its cultural and literary context. Appendices include examples of 18th century educational literature and selections from Fielding’s correspondence. BESTSELLER
THE HISTORY OF SANDFORD AND MERTON Thomas Day Edited by Stephen Bending & Stephen Bygrave 2010 480pp 9781551116280 Paperback US$28.50
Among the earliest novels written about children, for children, this novel is enlightenment for beginners, offering a course of education in class, race, and gender to its six year-old protagonists, the robust farm-boy Harry Sandford and Tommy Merton, the spoilt boy from the big house. This Broadview edition includes the original illustrations, along with contemporary reviews and other material on childhood.
George MacDonald Edited by Shelley King & John Pierce 2014 350pp 9781554810079 Paperback US$18.25
George MacDonald's best known story for children, The Princess and the Goblin, tells the story of a lonely child princess and her friend, a brave miner boy, in their battle with subterranean monsters. This edition also includes four other major fairy stories by MacDonald, as well as a selection of historical documents on the works' composition and reception, Victorian fairy tales, and MacDonald's other literary criticism.
TREASURE ISLAND
Robert Louis Stevenson Edited by John Sutherland 2012 290pp 9781551114095 Paperback US$15.25
John Sutherland discusses the novel's place in Stevenson's biography and oeuvre in his learned and lively critical introduction to this edition. Appendices include selections from Stevenson's writings about the novel, contemporary reviews, and sources on which Stevenson drew (or from which he "borrowed") when writing Treasure Island.
THE WATER-BABIES
A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
Charles Kingsley Edited by Richard Kelly 2008 320pp 9781551117737 Paperback US$18.25
The Water-Babies tells the story of a young boy named Tom, who escapes his harsh life as a chimney sweep by being transformed into a "water-baby”. The appendices include a broad selection of other 19th century children's literature and excerpts from Kingsley's essays on evolution, hygiene, and education.
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