Children’s and teenage literature studies: general

El Joven Gran Escritor es una convocatoria en la que se conjuntan varios esfuerzos por hacer brillar las expresiones de los jóvenes jaliscienses, aquellos que abarrotan las presentaciones de libro de género fantástico, o que hacen colas para obtener el autógrafo de autores de terror, ciencia ficción y fantasía.

La historia de amor más conocida y emocionante de todos los tiempos, en una edición con textos e ilustraciones especialmente adaptadas para los pequeños lectores.

La prevención de las enfermedades debe ser una prioridad en las comunidades.

Un hombre mayor ha visto pasar los años a las orillas del río que le dio todo: protección, alimento, compañía y algo aún más importante, le ayudó a comprender el sentido de su existencia.

Juanita Campana es buena amiga de sus amigos, le encantan los libros, el barrio La Candelaria y los helados de moras.

Una pequeña manatí se aleja del cuidado de su mamá y una niña, Tomasa, pierde su casa al ser destruida por la creciente.

Si eres fanático de los dinosaurios, este libro es perfecto para ti.

Escondidos en los rincones más inesperados, incluso entre los pliegues de nuestra piel, allí donde nadie advierte que existen, microscópicos monstruos tienen su universo.

El pequeño elefante escucha que algo misterioso ocurre en la selva.

Quienes abran este libro encontrarán en él inquietantes y útiles reflexiones sobre la promoción de la lectura y sus propósitos, este no es un libro tradicional de teoría acerca de ese tema ni mucho menos una guía de actividades prácticas.

Scrooge, un viejo e inhumano avaro, a quien todo el mundo repudia por su forma de ser, es visitado durante la Nochebuena por el espectro de Marley, su antiguo socio, quien le presenta en una serie de visiones el pasado, el presente y el futuro como un modo de advertirle su nefasto fin si no cambia pronto de vida.

Después de vivir en la ciudad y con el corazón roto por los desengaños amorosos, el Señor Luciérnaga regresa al campo.

Cada año llega un circo a Pitalito y cada año el mago Bashir presenta actos maravillosos.

Este libro reúne textos que entienden la literatura infantil y juvenil como unapráctica mediada y social.

For more than 250 years, English children's literature has transmitted values to the next generation.

It's All about Nutrition is an introductory textbook designed specifically to capture the interest of general education students in nutrition.

The popularity of the His Dark Materials trilogy has generated a major motion picture, a stage play, video games, and a new prequel.

Cuentos para Milena narra la historia de la familia Cardoso, y las aventuras de Rosalía, su hija más pequeña.

Teach your students to love reading and books, with help from an expertEncouraging students to read is a daunting task when you have to compete with YouTube and video games.

Environmental Noise Pollution: Noise Mapping, Public Health and Policy addresses the key debates surrounding environmental noise pollution with a particular focus on the European Union.

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The first English-language biography of Astrid Lindgren provides a moving and revealing portrait of the beloved Scandinavian literary icon whose adventures of Pippi Longstocking have influenced generations of young readers all over the world.

This book features a cutting edge approach to the study of film adaptations of literature for children and young people, and the narratives about childhood those adaptations enact.

This two-volume critical history of French children's literature from 1600 to the present helps bring awareness of the range, quality, and importance of French children's literature to a wider audience.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of character focalization in ten contemporary realistic children's novels.

This book offers a historical analysis of key classical translated works for children, such as writings by Hans Christian Andersen and Grimms' tales.

This landmark volume is the first to bring together leading scholarship on children's and young adult literature from three intersecting disciplines: Education, English, and Library and Information Science.

Melvin Burgess has made a powerful name for himself in the world of children's and young adult literature, emerging in the 1990s as the author of over twenty critically acclaimed novels.

This revised and updated edition provides children's and young adult librarians, teachers, literature classes, and library school classes with an authoritative history and analysis of the best British and American children's literature through 1994, with a new 2003 postscript including such recent phenomenons as J.

Society does not make it easy for young people, regardless of their sexual orientation, to find accurate, nonjudgmental information about homosexuality.

A valuable and easy-to-use tool for librarians, teachers and others seeking to promote international understanding through children's literature.

Under the threat of climate change, corruption, inequality and injustice, Americans may feel they are living in a dystopian novel come to life.

Tales featuring anthropomorphic animals have been around as long as there have been storytellers to spin them, from Aesop's Fables to Reynard the Fox to Alice in Wonderland.

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A comet in the mounting firmament of third-world, non-white, female writers, Edwidge Danticat stands apart.

This literary companion surveys the young adult works of American author Marion Zimmer Bradley, primarily known for her work in the fantasy genre.

Young adult literature holds an exceptional place in modern American popular culture.

Vampire narratives are generally thought of as adult or young adult fare, yet there is a long history of their appearance in books, film and other media meant for children.

Many scholars recognize the importance of Harry Potter as a vehicle for discussions about society--from race relations and gender studies to economic, political, religious and educational applications of the texts.

The Harry Potter phenomenon created a surge in reading with a lasting effect on all areas of culture, especially education.

This first-ever volume focusing on sports pulp fiction devoted to America's two most popular pastimes of the 1935-1957 era--baseball and football--provides extensive detail on authors, along with examination of key plots, themes, trends and categories.

Beyond the His Dark Materials series lies a vast fictional realm populated by the many diverse character creations of Philip Pullman.

The rise of YA dystopian literature has seen an explosion of female protagonists who are stirring young people's interest in social and political topics, awakening their civic imagination, and inspiring them to work for change.

With Courage and Compassion celebrates the contributions of women to nations, societies, churches, and the ecumenical movement.

In 2007, Antje Jackelén adopted the motto "e;God is greater"e; from the First Letter of John 3:18-20 for her consecration as the bishop of the Diocese of Lund.

Interfaith dialogue in a plural world.

Culture, Religion, and Home-making in and Beyond South Asia explores how the idea of the home is repurposed or re-envisioned in relation to experiences of modernity, urbanization, conflict, migration and displacement.

Although humans have always migrated, the present phenomenon of mass migration is unprecedented in scale and global in reach.

This book argues that interfaith dialogue begins with the basic goal of improving Christian relationships with people of other religious traditions.

In this landmark volume, a rich array of voices make the case that religion is not partitioned off from the secular in the Global South the way it is in the Global North.