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Direct linkTunc, Tanfer Emin – Children's Literature in Education, 2017
This article discusses how, following in the footsteps of United States imperial children's writers Jacob Abbott and Edward Stratemeyer, Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade (1860-1936), the original author of the "Our Little Cousins" series (1901-1905), contributed to the American culture of empire. Wade was one of the most prolific and popular…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, United States Literature, Foreign Policy, Twentieth Century Literature
Endo, Rachel – Children's Literature in Education, 2018
The year 2017 will mark the 75th anniversary when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 or EO 9066 on February 19, 1942. EO 9066 led to the mass incarceration of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans into ten racially segregated concentration camps throughout the U.S. This article discusses the educational and literary…
Descriptors: Novels, Adolescent Literature, Japanese Americans, United States Literature
Wilson, Melissa B.; Short, Kathy G. – Children's Literature in Education, 2012
The myth of home is what distinguishes children's literature from adult novels (Wolf 1990). Nodelman and Reimer ("The Pleasures of Children's Literature," 2003) write that while "the home/away/home pattern is the most common story line in children's literature, adult fiction that deals with young people who leave home usually ends…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Novels, Content Analysis, Postmodernism
Lopez-Ropero, Lourdes – Children's Literature in Education, 2012
Though portrayals of bullying in children's books stretch back to Victorian public school stories, this article sees a new subgenre about bullying in young adult novels emerging in the post-Columbine years. Selected works by Jerry Spinelli, Walter Dean Myers, Jaime Adoff, Carol Plum-Ucci and Rita Williams-Garcia are examined, although the article…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Bullying, Novels, High Schools
Peer reviewedMaher, Susan Naramore – Children's Literature in Education, 1996
Explores the reasons for the contrasting receptions of two books written by Ryrie Brink, "Caddie Woodlawn" (1935) and its sequel "Magical Melons" (1944). Speculates that the difference lies in their different portrayals of the relationship between male and female worlds. (TB)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Feminism, Novels
Peer reviewedMills, Claudia – Children's Literature in Education, 1998
Examines two well-loved American children's books (published in the 1940s), showing how they reflect ambivalent attitudes toward the city that run deep in American culture and literature. Notes that both novels present remarkably similar urban idylls--idealized visions of the wondrous opportunities offered by the city to artistically gifted…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Books, Childrens Literature, United States Literature
Peer reviewedCai, Mingshui – Children's Literature in Education, 1992
Discusses three of Lawrence Yep's novels (which portray the Chinese-American experience of being caught between two worlds) as good examples of what literature about ethnic groups should be. (SR)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Chinese Americans, Cultural Background, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedSegel, Elizabeth – Children's Literature in Education, 1977
Points out that the "Little House" books reveal a true picture of the ethics and values of the American pioneers.
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Literature Appreciation
Peer reviewedHargrove, Nancy D. – Children's Literature in Education, 1992
Discusses the comedy in Eudora Welty's only children's book, "The Shoe Bird," and ways the book may be used in the elementary grades. (SR)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Elementary Education, Humor
