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Lambert, Robert – Media Method Explor Educ, 1969
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Descriptors: Adolescents, Books, Cultural Awareness, Literary Criticism
Carr, Robin L. – 1978
The "new realism" that distinguishes some recent childrens' books such as "The Mimosa Tree,""The Bear's House," and "My Daddy Is a Policeman" portrays the important issues of human life from a one dimensional perspective. These books focus on the tragedies and problems of life without answering the child's philosophical questions regarding…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria
Peer reviewedMonegal, Emir Rodriguez – Hispania, 1969
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Books, Drama, Hispanic American Literature
Townsend, John Rowe – 1971
This is an introduction to the work of 19 contemporary English-language writers for children. It consists of critical essays on the works of Joan Aiken, L. M. Boston, H. F. Brinsmead, John Christopher, Helen Cresswell, Meindert DeJong, Eleanor Estes, Paula Fox, Leon Garfield, Alan Garner, Madeleine L'Engle, William Mayne, Andre Norton, Scott…
Descriptors: Australian Literature, Authors, Biographies, Books
Bridge, 1976
Eleven Asian American book reviewers were asked by the Council on Interracial Books for Children to find, read, and analyze all childrens books on Asian American themes currently in print or in use in schools and libraries. The major conclusion was that, with one or perhaps two exceptions, the 66 books reviewed are racist, sexist, and elitist.…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Book Reviews, Books, Childrens Literature
Rubin, Louis D., Jr., Ed. – 1969
The purpose of this selective bibliography is to provide the student of Southern literature with a list of the principal scholarship on a number of the South's writers and on some of the more prominent themes and areas of investigation in Southern literature. The first part of the book presents bibliographies on 23 general topics ranging from…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Blacks, Books, Drama
Turner, Darwin T., Comp. – 1970
This bibliography offers a selective list of the major literary works of black American writers and of scholarship dealing with them and their works. In addition to a listing of drama, fiction, and poetry by Afro-Americans, those works significant to the life and culture of black people in America and to the study of Afro-American literature are…
Descriptors: Authors, Bibliographies, Biographies, Black Literature
Butler, Francelia, Ed. – 1976
Because this periodical about children's literature was published during 1976, the United States Bicentennial Year, it features contemporary essays on American children's literature from the colonial age to the present. Other essays discuss the current state of children's literature and the practices used in its criticism, German and Italian…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Eighteenth Century Literature, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textRomero, Carol E. – 1974
In order to evaluate the treatment of death in children's literature, and to compile a bibliography of books related to this theme, four areas of a child's relation to death were explored. The first area of investigation was of concepts of death evidenced at the child's various developmental stages, as documented in numerous psychological studies.…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Books, Child Psychology, Childhood Attitudes
