Only Connect: Readings on Children's Literature

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First published in 1969, Only Connect is widely accepted as an essential volume for everyone concerned with children's and young adults' literature. This new edition offers a new selection of more than 40 essays and brief studies on history and criticism, literary standards, changing tastes, science fiction, young adult literature, fantasy, the problem novel, racism, and sexism. None of the articles have been featured in either of the previous two editions. Among the essayists are Joan Aiken, Margaret Mahy, P.L. ...
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First published in 1969, Only Connect is widely accepted as an essential volume for everyone concerned with children's and young adults' literature. This new edition offers a new selection of more than 40 essays and brief studies on history and criticism, literary standards, changing tastes, science fiction, young adult literature, fantasy, the problem novel, racism, and sexism. None of the articles have been featured in either of the previous two editions. Among the essayists are Joan Aiken, Margaret Mahy, P.L. Travers, Perry Nodelman, Brian Attebery, John Rowe Townsend, Myra Cohn Livingston, Peter Hunt, and Jane Yolen. Its assembled learning, common sense, and wit are certain to help librarians, authors, critics, and parents "connect" with children's literature, and thus with the children themselves.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780195403091
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Publication date: 6/26/1980
  • Edition description: REV
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 478
  • Product dimensions: 5.25 (w) x 8.00 (h) x 0.98 (d)

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Sheila Egoff is the author of Thursday's Child: Trends and Patterns of Contemporary Children's Literature and Worlds Within: Children's Fantasy from the Middle Ages to Today and co-author (with Judith Saltman) of The New Republic of Childhood: A Critical Guide to Canadian Children's Literature in
English. She is Professor Emerita of the School of Librarianship, University of British Columbia. G.T. Stubbs, L.F. Ashley and Wendy Sutton are professors in the Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia

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all at the University of British Columbia

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Table of Contents

Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Preface to the Third Edition
Defining Children's Literature 2
Critical Opinion: Reading Children's Books 18
Protecting Children's Literature 32
The Imaginative Uses of Secrecy in Children's Literature 39
An Eye for Thresholds 48
Interpreting the Past: Reflections of an Historical Novelist 62
Progressive Utopia, Or, How to Grow Up Without Growing Up 74
Alice, Huck, Pinocchio, and the Blue Fairy: Bodies Real and Imagined 83
Of Style and the Stylist 90
Fin de Siecle 105
Runes to Ward Off Sorrow: Rhetoric of the English Nursery Rhyme 110
Woods and Castles, Towers and Huts: Aspects of Setting in the Fairy Tale 122
Unknown Childhood 130
A Dissolving Ghost 135
Deeper Than You Think 154
Turtles All the Way Down 164
Some Presumptuous Generalizations About Fantasy 175
Fantasy: Why Kids Read It, Why Kids Need It 179
Dr. Seuss and Dr. Einstein: Children's Books and Scientific Imagination 184
Science Fiction as Myth and Metaphor 194
Let There Be Dragons 201
What Is It About Science Fiction? 206
The Poem on Page 81 214
Strict and Loose Nonsense: Two Worlds of Children's Verse 225
What is a Picture Book? 238
How Picture Books Work 242
Black and White Set the Tone 254
The Constructedness of Texts: Picture Books and the Metafictive 259
The Absent Mother: Women Against Women in Old Wives' Tales 278
Women's Coming of Age in Fantasy 288
Fathers Fare Poorly in Children's Books 301
Innocence and Experience in the Young Adult Romance 304
The Adolescent Novel of Ideas 315
The Turbulent Years 328
Trends in Children's Books Today 337
Cultural Politics from a Writer's Point of View 343
There Was Once 350
The Lion, the Witch, and the Drug Addict 353
Greening the Child 355
Abandonment: The New Realism of the Eighties 359
Taking Political Stock: New Theoretical and Critical Approaches to Anglo-American Children's Literature in the 1980s 365
Epilogue: Some Thoughts on Connecting 377
Notes on Contributors 395
Selected Bibliography 403
Index 406
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