Children's literature has recently produced a body of criticism with a highly distinctive voice. The book consolidates understanding of this area by including essays published in the field in the last five years, demonstrating the links between literary criticism, education, psychology, history and scientific theory. It includes Peter Hollindale's award-winning essay "Ideology and Children's Literature", topics from fiction and post-modernism to fractal geometry, and the examination of texts ranging from picture books to "The Wizard of Oz" and the Australian classic "Midnite". Sources are as disparate as "Signal" and the "Children's Literature Association Quarterly", and the international community is represented by writers from Britain, the USA, Canada, Australia and Germany. Each essay is set in its critical context by extensive quotation from different articles.
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Children's literature is an amorphous, ambiguous creature; its relationship to its audience is difficult; its relationship to the rest of literature, problematic. Read the first page
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I'm in the middle of the Open University module 'Children's Literature' so am reading this Peter Hunt title at the same time as course materials. Hunt is a major player in the field of children's literature so more or less anything he writes is 'significant' as is the work of Peter Hollindale. This review will need to be re-reviewed when I get to the end of the book. In the meantime it has already clarified some theories for me so I think that it will be useful overall.
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