By Susan Jane Gilman
ISBN-10: 0446510580
ISBN-13: 9780446510585
From the writer of "Kiss My Tiara" comes a humorous and poignant number of real tales approximately girls coming of age that for as soon as isn't approximately discovering a date.
Gilman's memoir of growing to be up on Manhattan's higher higher West aspect within the '70s begins slowly yet gathers momentum. Readers who locate themselves drifting in the course of Gilman's reveries on mendacity in the course of show-and-tell will locate themselves pleasantly riveted by the point she's getting into contact together with her roots as a reporter for the Jewish Week. Gilman, writer of 2001's Kiss My Tiara, a women's self-help advisor, makes universal situations clean with humor and wry social observation; at the first day of faculty, she speedy learns "boys can be warring parties, yet ladies can be terrorists." Gilman's ear for discussion is dead-on. while her brother asks their dad why their Jewish kinfolk celebrates Christmas, she doesn't omit a beat: " 'Because your grandmother's a Communist and your mom loves parties,' stated my father. 'Now devour your supper.' " those one-liners don't detract, notwithstanding, from a significant and relocating examine one family's efforts to maintain itself intact via divorce and different existence demanding situations. After her mom and dad separate, Gilman, then in her mid-20s, fears she and her brother had spent their childhoods in satisfied oblivion whereas their mom and dad have been "spellbound with misery." not likely: Gilman's memories of relocating bumpily towards maturity are keenly observant. She's properly made the jump from self-help to narrative nonfiction.
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These three countries can be regarded as the cradles of children’s literature. ) The rise of specific children’s literature in these northwest European countries went hand in hand with the far-reaching social, economic, political, and cultural changes that accompanied the formation of the middle classes. These were, very briefly, the evolution of the middle-class, nuclear family, with the separation of family and work and the liberation of children from working life; the perception of childhood as a phase of life differing fundamentally from adult existence (a key influence here was Jean-Jacques Rousseau); the definition of children as objects of serious responsibility in need of protection and education; the emergence of a class of parents who could afford to invest in their children; the development of a school system and an increased demand for educational books for children; and changes in the literary market that later led to the production of purely commercial children’s literature.
See ABC BOOKS OR ALPHABET BOOKS. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (ALA). The American Library Association, founded in 1876, is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with more than 64,000 members. Representing all types of libraries—public, school, academic, and so on—its mission is to promote the highest-quality library and information services and public access to information. Two of its 11 divisions are dedicated to promoting children’s and young adult literature, the Association for Library Services to Children (ALSC) and the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA).
Indd xxx 10/14/10 4:47 AM Introduction What is children’s literature? Is it literature written by children, for children, or about children? Are there specific stylistic or thematic features common to all children’s books by which they can be identified? These and related questions have been asked by scholars in their search for a definition. This section will address these questions, first looking at key differences between children’s literature and its counterpart for adults. This will be followed by a brief look at the rise and development of children’s literature and a reflection on the currently relevant issues of internationalism and globalization.
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