Provides interviews with publishers, censored authors, and anticensorship activists, and discusses the influence of censorship on children's literature (view table of contents)

Product Description: Children, Culture and Controversy

A collection of twenty fantasy stories written for children in the nineteenth century, arranged in the categories 'Fairy Tales,' 'Didactic Stories,' 'Magical Objects,' and 'Nonsense Stories.' Includes a scholarly introduction providing an overview of thefield.

Product Description: Roald Dahl

Product Description: Wellsprings of Imagination is an armchair tour of the homes of such beloved children's authors as Lucy Maud Montgomery, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Laura Ingalls Wilder. Essays focus on the relationship between an author's home and the books that were written (or imagined) there...read more

A collection of fantasy stories for children revolving around animals--both real and legendary

Lists resources under such topics as fairy tales, folklore, and African-American literature, as well as lists of journals, reference works, special library collections, and books about children's literature (view table of contents)

Product Description: With the growing emphasis on theory in literary studies, psychoanalytic criticism has taken its place alongside other forms as an important contribution to literary interpretation. Despite its tendency to make readers uncomfortable, it offers insights into human nature, and hence is appropriate in examining a genre such as children's literature...read more

Product Description: In 1873, Helen Hunt left New England for a temporary stay in Colorado on the advice of her physician. In Colorado Springs her health was restored, her literary career flourished, and the personal losses and grief she had suffered were assuaged by her marriage to William Sharpless Jackson...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: What do Paddington Bear, Rupert Bear, and Winnie the Pooh have in common, besides their ursine roots? They lived in real places, as well as in the imaginations of countless generations. Those places still exist. And inveterate globetrotter Mark West has been to them all...read more

Product Description: With the growing emphasis on theory in literary studies, psychoanalytic criticism has taken its place alongside other forms as an important contribution to literary interpretation. Despite its tendency to make readers uncomfortable, it offers insights into human nature, and hence is appropriate in examining a genre such as children's literature...read more

Product Description: Godzilla stomped his way into American movie theaters in 1956, and ever since then Japanese trends and cultural products have had a major impact on children's popular culture in America. This can be seen in the Hello Kitty paraphernalia phenomenon, the popularity of anime television programs like Pokemon and Dragon Ball Z, computer games, and Hayao Miyazaki's award-winning films, such as Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke...read more