Professional Documents
Culture Documents
A Critical Handbook
of Children's
Literature
RebeccaJ. Lukens
"Professor Emerita, Miami University
Oxford, Ohig
Paris
Contents
To the Instructor
xi
To the Student
xvii
Reading Aloud to Children xxi
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Informational Books 28
Across Genre Lines 29
Classics 29
Table 2.1: Genre in Children's Literature 30
Summary 35
Notes 35
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Picture Books
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Lasting Favorites 62
Wordless Picture Books 66
Summary 69
Notes 70
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Character
71
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Revelation of Character 76
By Actions 77
By Speech 77
By Appearance 78
By Others' Comments 78
By Author's Comments 78
Unity of Character and Action 78
Types of Characters 81
Hat Characters 82
Round Characters 83
Change in Character 84
O Special Issues of Character in Children's Literature
Traditional Literature 90
Animal Realism 91
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Science Fiction 91
Classics 93
Summary 94
Notes 95
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Plot
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/ Theme
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Summary 143
Notes 145
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7 / Setting
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Web
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Point of View
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/ Style
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Allusion 191
Symbol 192
Puns and Wordplay 192
Devices of Sound 195
Onomatopoeia 195
Alliteration 195
Assonance 193
Consonance 195
Rhythm 193
Special Issues of Style in Children's Literature 194
Trite Versus Fresh Style 194
Retellings and Translations 197
Stories of Other Periods and Places 199
High Fantasy 201
Summary 202
Notes 202
Recommended Books Cited in This Chapter 202
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Tone
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Poetry 258
Prose and Poetrv
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Contents
256
Summary 258
Notes 258
Books Containing Poems Cited in This Chapter 259
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Biography
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Informational Books
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