Reflections of Change: Children's Literature Since 1945

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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. The new status of children's literature has been accompanied by an unprecedented growth in research on children's literature internationally. This volume explores the many changes that have taken place in the past half-century in children's literature, showing how those changes reflect our rapidly-changing world and attempt to prepare children for the new millennium. Among the issues discussed are the shifting boundaries between children's literature and adult literature, postmodern trends, paradigm shifts, national literatures, and the reconceptualization of the past.

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.,."thought provoking....raise[s] important questions about the future of children, children's literature, and children's literary theory....Sandra Beckett is to be commended for bringing together a collection so prismatic and multifaceted in its approach to children's literature. Also significant is the book's worldwide perspective; most readers will find many authors and titles unfamiliar to them--the book is worth owning simply for its bibliography."-Book Reviews
...thought provoking....raise[s] important questions about the future of children, children's literature, and children's literary theory....Sandra Beckett is to be commended for bringing together a collection so prismatic and multifaceted in its approach to children's literature. Also significant is the book's worldwide perspective; most readers will find many authors and titles unfamiliar to them--the book is worth owning simply for its bibliography.-Book Reviews
A collection of papers from a 1995 congress for children's literature held in Stockholm, this is a truly international collection, by virtue of both content and contributors...Recommended for all academic collections.-Choice
..."thought provoking....raises important questions about the future of children, children's literature, and children's literary theory....Sandra Beckett is to be commended for bringing together a collection so prismatic and multifaceted in its approach to children's literature. Also significant is the book's worldwide perspective; most readers will find many authors and titles unfamiliar to them--the book is worth owning simply for its bibliography."-Book Reviews
"A collection of papers from a 1995 congress for children's literature held in Stockholm, this is a truly international collection, by virtue of both content and contributors...Recommended for all academic collections."-Choice
..."thought provoking....raise[s] important questions about the future of children, children's literature, and children's literary theory....Sandra Beckett is to be commended for bringing together a collection so prismatic and multifaceted in its approach to children's literature. Also significant is the book's worldwide perspective; most readers will find many authors and titles unfamiliar to them--the book is worth owning simply for its bibliography."-Book Reviews

Author Bio

SANDRA L. BECKETT is Professor of French at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. She has served as the Vice-President of the International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL). Her research focuses on contemporary French fiction for adults as well as children. She is the author of three books on Henri Bosco, and has recently completed a book entitled Les grands romanciers crivent pour les enfants, 1945-1995. She has also published numerous articles on the contemporary French novel, as well as French and French-Canadian children's literature.