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The Best of "Books for Keeps": Highlights from the Leading Children's
This is a celebration of the innovative, original and sometimes controversial articles that have been found in this magazine over the years. Covering a wealth of issues, from a lighthearted...
The Case of Peter Pan, or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction
What is the meaning of Peter Pan -- not for J. M. Barrie, but for the thousands who have continued to purchase for children version after version of the story...
The Red King's Dream: Lewis Carroll in Wonderland
Through tireless searches in archives and some very astute deductions these two ex-BBC television production executives have exposed a new dimension to Lewis Carroll's ALICE IN WONDERLAND and THROUGH THE...
Children's Literature
Of all types of literature, children's literature is perhaps the best loved, most varied, and most subtly influential. Its history is not merely a footnote to social history, but a...
The Oxford Book of Children's Stories
Children's writer and Carnegie medallist Jan Mark has selected 44 stories which include moral tales, fairy tales, ghost stories, adventure stories, and school stories; they are inhabited by good and...
As You Like It: Staged: the origins of YA's greatest tropes
STAGED- Timeless tropes, enduring stories - a new Puffin Classics collection 'We that are true lovers run into strange capers.' Banished from her ambitious uncle's court, the lovesick Rosalind flees...
A Little History of Literature
A vibrant guide to the world of literature, from dramatic plays to engrossing novels Literature has inspired every civilisation, from Greek myth to today's graphic novels. John Sutherland, who has...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat. 'We're all mad here.' The 'Alice' books are two of the...
The Pleasures of Children's Literature
The book titled The Pleasures of Children's Literature by the author Nodelman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Write Your Own Poems
Whether you want to dash off a limerick, ponder a sonnet or plot an epic poem, this write-in activity book is here to help. Each page is bursting with tips...
As You Like It: Staged: the origins of YA's greatest tropes
STAGED- Timeless tropes, enduring stories - a new Puffin Classics collection 'We that are true lovers run into strange capers.' Banished from her ambitious uncle's court, the lovesick Rosalind flees...
Hamlet: Staged: the origins of YA's greatest tropes
STAGED- Timeless tropes, enduring stories - a new Puffin Classics collection 'Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.' When Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, discovers his father was murdered, he...
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Staged: the origins of YA's greatest tropes
STAGED- Timeless tropes, enduring stories - a new Puffin Classics collection 'The course of true love never did run smooth ...' Hermia loves Lysander. But she must marry Demetrius or...
Macbeth: Staged: the origins of YA's greatest tropes
STAGED- Timeless tropes, enduring stories - a new Puffin Classics collection 'It will have blood, they say- blood will have blood.' On a bleak, stormy night, three witches prophesy- Macbeth...