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This edited collection investigates LGBTQ+ literature for young readers around the world, including picture books, middle-grade books and young adult novels. It brings together contributions from across the academic and activist spectra to explore what is at stake when we write (or do not write) about LGBTQ+ topics for young readers.

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Jacqueline Wilson is one of the most popular writers for children in Britain today, and is ground-breaking in her frank treatment of issues such as adoption, divorce and death. Addressing Wilson's work from a variety of perspectives, this exciting volume brings together a range of new critical essays from an international team of scholars.

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Reference Books Bulletin

The book is a marvelous resource for teachers who teach Japan to children and young adults. The annotations for trade books published from the mid-sixties to the present will help teachers, librarians, and interested parents select appropriate materials from the vast numbers of books available.

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Find good books for young readers the easy way by using this guide. Designed for educators and students, it arranges titles by genre and theme so users can find books similar to the ones they love.

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Looks at gender in relation to children's fiction and the role that language plays in this relationship. This book treats fiction as fiction, and argues that fiction is almost always dialogic, and that the feminist movement has had considerable influence on textual representations of women, men, boys and girls.

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Deals with children's fiction. This title focuses on gender in relation to children's fiction and the role that language plays in this relationship. It is suitable for researchers in and students of linguistics, language studies and English literature.

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Celebrating the wealth of quality multicultural literature recently published for children and young adults, this valuable resource examines the fiction, oral tradition, and poetry from four major ethnic groups in the United States.

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This seventh book in the Author and YOU series features the life and work of Mary Casanova, award-winning picture book author, and author of middle grade fiction.

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Find the right books to prepare persuasive, inspiring book talks with this successor to Introducing Books, Introducing More Books and Introducing Bookplots 3. Middleplots 4 details 80 books grouped under 8 subject areas such as Adventure and Mystery Stories and contains special cumulative indexes to the titles profiled in earlier editions.

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The second edition of this established introductory text has been thoroughly revised, updated and expanded to reflect current issues in the field. It features new chapters by leading names on key topics such as canon formation, fantasy, and technology, and includes an essay on children's poetry by the former Children's Laureate, Michael Rosen.

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The second edition of this established introductory text has been thoroughly revised, updated and expanded to reflect current issues in the field. It features new chapters by leading names on key topics such as canon formation, fantasy, and technology, and includes an essay on children's poetry by the former Children's Laureate, Michael Rosen.

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An annotated list of the best books for reading aloud includes indexes by author, title, and subject.

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Philip Pullman is one of the most commercially and critically successful British authors. Pullman's great achievement has been in the publication of the "His Dark Materials" trilogy. This study informs readers about the contexts, sources and influences behind the trilogy, and examines the controversies and debates that have surrounded the trilogy.

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An annotated bibliography of over 600 picture books for students in grades 8 through 12, organized by content area.

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Want a quick way to check to see whether a student has read a book Quizzes contains objective reproducible tests for well-known children's books, all of which are likely to be found in school and public libraries. and books by such children's authors as Cleary, Fox, and Norton.

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Over the past fifty years, children's literature has freed itself of many traditional restrictions and become a field of exciting innovations in both form and content.