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(Hardback)

Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 1994
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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.


(Paperback, 2nd edition)

By: Dr Catherine Butler

ISBN: 9781137357458
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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.


(Hardback, 2nd edition)

By: Dr Catherine Butler

ISBN: 9781137364715
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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.


(Hardback)

By: Judy Freeman

ISBN: 9780835235204
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 1995
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An annotated list of the best books for reading aloud includes indexes by author, title, and subject.


(Hardback)

By: Joel Shoemaker

ISBN: 9781442257184
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book examines the life and work of Pete Hautman, whose more than 15 books for young adults cover a wide ride of diverse subjects. Chapters will explicate his work, offering critical commentary on the content, style, and standard literary elements, beginning with his first YA novel, Mr. Was (1996).


(Paperback)

By: Claire Squires

ISBN: 9780826417169
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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.


(Hardback)

By: Denise I. Matulka

ISBN: 9780313301827
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 1997
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An annotated bibliography of over 600 picture books for students in grades 8 through 12, organized by content area.


(Paperback)

By: Jennifer Harrison

ISBN: 9781498573375
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book explores the deployment of posthumanist ideology in young adult dystopian fiction. It applies this theory to the presentation of social issues in select novels.


(Paperback)

By: Polly Jeanne Wickstrom

ISBN: 9781563083839
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 1996
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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.


(Hardback)

By: Heidi K. Hammond

ISBN: 9781442239227
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Reading the Art in Caldecott Award Books is a practical and easy-to-use reference handbook explaining what makes the art in Caldecott Medal and Honor books distinguished. It is a useful manual for librarians, teachers, and others who want to better understand picture book illustration.


(Paperback)

By: Heidi K. Hammond

ISBN: 9781442239234
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Reading the Art in Caldecott Award Books is a practical and easy-to-use reference handbook explaining what makes the art in Caldecott Medal and Honor books distinguished. It is a useful manual for librarians, teachers, and others who want to better understand picture book illustration.


(Hardback)

By: Sandra L. Beckett

ISBN: 9780313301452
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 1997
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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.


(Paperback)

By: Ingrid E. Castro

ISBN: 9781498574969
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Representing Agency in Popular Culture addresses the intersection of child and youth agency and popular culture. Here, scholars expand understandings of agency, power, and voice in childrens lives, identifying popular culture as an important source of inspiration and inquiry within the future of childhood studies.


(Hardback)

By: Dr Alison Waller

ISBN: 9781474298285
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Dr Alison Waller

ISBN: 9781350178236
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Gale W. Sherman

ISBN: 9781563080944
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 1993
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Selected for their high interest, appealing formats, appropriate reading levels, outstanding writing, and popularity, these contemporary, spellbinding titles (20 for grades 5-8 and 20 for grades 9-12) reflect a variety of genres and themes that will encourage lifelong literacy.


(Hardback)

By: Laura A. Brown

ISBN: 9781793622075
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Using Bronfenbrenners Ecological Systems Theory and Peter Langmans categorical descriptions of school shooters, this book analyzes several Young Adult (YA) texts about school shootings and uncovers how the authors represent such violence and the perpetrators while developing stories that effectively speak to their adolescent readers


(Paperback)

By: Cindy S. Gillespie

ISBN: 9780897747776
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 1992
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Because children's literature explores serious issues using situations and language young students can readily understand, the authors of Sensitive Issues have selected current fiction and nonfiction elementary-level titles that can also be developed into units of study.


(Hardback)

By: Bryan Gillis

ISBN: 9781442246874
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This volume examines adolescent sexuality and how it is represented in young adult literature. The authors show how sexual content in such books can contribute to a richer and more fulfilling reading experience for teens.


(Paperback)

By: Dr Abigail Rokison-Woodall

ISBN: 9781441125569
Readership/Audience: Primary and Secondary Educational
Publication Date: Mar 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Offers a comprehensive overview of Shakespeare for children and young people from the National Theatre, Globe Education and Shakespeare 4 Kidz to film and manga adaptations. This title covers stage and screen productions, shortened versions, prose narratives and picture books, animations and original novels, plays and films rewriting Shakespeare.


(Paperback)

By: Professor Emerita Margaret Mackey

ISBN: 9781350275997
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)

By: Deidre A. Johnson

ISBN: 9780313226328
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1982
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Anna E. Altmann

ISBN: 9781563088315
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Altmann and de Vos are back with more great ideas for exploring contemporary reworkings of classic folk and fairy tales that appeal to teen readers. Following the same format, each story includes tale type numbers, motifs, and lists of reworkings arranged by genre, and suggestions for classroom extensions.


(Hardback)

By: Dr Pamela Thurschwell

ISBN: 9781350318427
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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