The 52nd in the Classical World" survey series. A previous installment appeared in Classical World" 58(1964-65), p69-83. (DS)

This annotated bibliography of children's books about Africa cites more than 800 entries written in English and published in the United States, Africa, and Europe. The books (designed for children in early elementary school through young adulthood) are evaluated in terms of the validity of the perspective of Africa which they present. Both…

Lasting appreciation of literature does not just naturally issue out of basic reading skill training, because the outcomes desired in basic reading skills and in literary appreciation are different. Therefore, the materials used in each must be different. The language adapted for skill building exercises is different from that used in stories,…

Reviews the life and works of Kornei I. Chukovsky and discusses his contribution to children's literature. (RB)

Contrasts the views of poets and poetry in Leo Lionni's "Frederick" and Randall Jarrell's "The Bat-Poet." (DD)

An enumerated, selected, 2,480-item bibliography of publications and records on Spanish culture and literature with prices is offered primarily for school and library use. Subject entry in this work is alphabetical in each of the major divisions. Broadly grouped classifications include: (1) fiction, (2) essays, (3) individual author collections,…

Findings of a survey concerning the poetry selections that teachers of grades 4, 5, and 6 read to their pupils are reported. Results suggest a need to cultivate an improved awareness and appreciation of more contemporary poetry through children's literature courses taught by library schools and education departments. (5 references) (Author/KE)

Special issue devoted to the life and works of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer. (DS)

This book is designed to introduce students and teachers to the vocabulary of literary analysis so that they may discuss and write about children's literature and make their own evaluations and judgments about books for children. Children's literature should be considered different from adult literature in degree, not kind. Points of similarity…

This volume, eighth in the annual series, provides for scholars, students, and general readers a systematic, evaluative guide to current published studies on American literature. Half the chapters summarize the year's published work on individual authors, and half are devoted to genres and periods. The eighteen contributors, acknowledged scholars…

The article discusses nine detrimental and six distinguished books about Hispanic people and cultures, published since 1979 for young readers. It is suggested that many recent books that depict Hispanic people and cultures repeat the same stereotypes, misconceptions and insensibilities that were prevalent in books published in the 1960s and early…

Eighteen papers on recent scholarship and its implications for school programs treat American ideas, novels, short stories, poetry, Emerson and Thoreau, Hawthorne and Melville, Whitman and Dickinson, Twain and Henry James, and Faulkner and Hemingway. Authors are Edwin H. Cady, Edward J. Gordon, William Peden, Paul H. Krueger, Bernard Duffey, John…