The Bloomsbury Introduction To Childrens And Young Adult Literature

Download or read book The Bloomsbury Introduction to Children's and Young Adult Literature written by Karen Coats and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- 1. Ideologies of Childhood and the History of Children's Literature -- 2. Contemporary Insights into Child Development -- 3. Reading, Researching, and Writing about Children's Literature -- 4. Thinking about Story -- 5. Reading with Pictures -- 6. Poetry and Poetic Language -- 7. Folk and Fairy Tales -- 8. Narrative Fiction: Realism -- 9. Narrative Fiction: Speculative Fiction -- 10. Nonfiction -- 11. Film, New Media, and Hybrid Forms and Genres -- 12. Entering the Professional Conversation -- Glossary of Critical Terms -- Bibliography -- Index