The Bloomsbury Introduction To Childrens And Young Adult Literature

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- 1. Ideologies of Childhood and the History of Children's Literature -- 2. Contemporary Insights into Child Development -- 3. Reading, Researching, and Writing about Children's Literature -- 4. Thinking about Story -- 5. Reading with Pictures -- 6. Poetry and Poetic Language -- 7. Folk and Fairy Tales -- 8. Narrative Fiction: Realism -- 9. Narrative Fiction: Speculative Fiction -- 10. Nonfiction -- 11. Film, New Media, and Hybrid Forms and Genres -- 12. Entering the Professional Conversation -- Glossary of Critical Terms -- Bibliography -- Index