14 books like Regendering the school story

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The Pooh Perplex Frederick C. Crews · 1963 · ★ 4.0 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Moderate In this devastatingly funny classic, Frederick Crews skewers the ego-inflated pretensions of the schools and practitioners of literary criticism popular in the 1960s, including Freudians, Aristotelians, and New Critics. Modeled on the "casebooks" often used in freshman English classes at the time, The Pooh Perplex contains twelve essays written in different critical voices, complete with… Shares: Children's literature, Books and Reading, Children, Literary Criticism

The poetics of childhood Roni Natov · 2002 · 296p · ≈ 9h · Moderate The Poetics of Childhood investigates the sensibility of childhood and the ways writers try to recapture it. It explores the earliest conceptions of innocence and the development of literature about children through contemporary times. It encompasses the pastoral, the dark pastoral, the anti-pastoral; it addresses picture books, fantasy, and realism. It looks with originality at the literature… Shares: Children's literature, Books and Reading, Children, History and criticism

Written for children: an outline of English children's literature John Rowe Townsend · 1965 · ★ 3.0 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares: Children's literature, Books and Reading, Children, History and criticism

Coraline Neil Gaiman · 2001 · ★ 4.1 · 180p · ≈ 6h · Moderate When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous. But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life. Shares: Children's literature, Books and Reading

Dream days Kenneth Grahame · 1898 · 129p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Kenneth Grahame's unjustly neglected collections of vignettes, reminiscences, and inventions capture the ingenuities of a family of children--three boys and two girls--who live magnanimous lives nourished by the secret expeditions and private games they share. Written in the last few years of the 19th century, as Grahame looked back fondly at his own childhood, these sketches of growing up are… Shares: Children's literature, Children

Something About the Author Gale Group · 1972 · ★ 4.0 · 300p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Something About the Author is a long series of biographical dictionaries of authors and illustrators of children's books. The reference volumes are routinely found in libraries and most articles are very good with photos of the subjects and their works, lists of titles, other sources, and more detailed information than many similar resources. Shares: Children's literature, English, Literary Criticism

Sylvie and Bruno Lewis Carroll · 1889 · ★ 4.0 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Two little children meet adventure in such places as Dogland, Outland, and Elfland. Shares: Children's literature, Children

Aunt Jo's scrap-bag Louisa May Alcott · 1871 Preface As grandmothers rummage their piece-bags and bundles in search of gay odds and ends to make gifts with which to fill the little stockings that hand all in a row on Christmas Eve, so I have gathers together some stories, old and new, to amuse the large family that has to rapidly and beautifully grown up about me. I hope that when they pomenade in nightcaps and gowns to rifle the plump… Shares: Children's literature, Children

Running Out of Time Margaret Peterson Haddix · 1995 · ★ 4.2 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Jessie lives with her family in the frontier village of Clifton, Indiana, in 1840 -- or so she believes. When diphtheria strikes the village and the children of Clifton start dying, Jessie's mother reveals a shocking secret -- it's actually 1996, and they are living in a reconstructed village that serves as a tourist site. In the world outside, medicine exists that can cure the dread disease, and… Shares: Children's literature, Children

Tanglewood Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1853 · ★ 3.8 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Tanglewood Tales uses the Greek classics as its source. Nathaniel Hawthorne has taken the most striking and exciting ones and adapted them for children. From the original stories he has selected episodes that illustrate conceptions held by the original authors. Titles include: "The Minotaur," "The Pygmies," "The Dragon's Teeth," "Circe's Palace," "The Pomegranate Seeds" and "The Golden Fleece." Shares: Children's literature, Children

When we were very young A. A. Milne · 1924 · ★ 4.2 · 112p · ≈ 3h · Challenging A collection of poems reflecting the experiences of a little English boy growing up in the early part of the twentieth century. Shares: English, Children

Children's Literature Review Gerard J. Senick · 1978 · 300p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares: Children's literature, Literary Criticism

The flunking of Joshua T. Bates Susan Shreve · 1984 · ★ 3.6 · 82p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Driving home from the beach on Labor Day, Joshua receives some shocking news from his mother: he must repeat third grade. Shares: Books and Reading, Children

Kinderleben, oder, Das Märchen ohne Ende. Friedrich Wilhelm Carové · 1834 · 49p · ≈ 1h · Challenging Shares: Children's literature, Literary Criticism

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