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Zusatztext "Overall! this is an indispensible collection for any educator! scholar! librarian! reader! or writer who is looking to expand her understanding of the varied perspectives of children's and young adult literature."-Children's Literature in Education"The editors of this useful volume successfully bridge the disciplinary divisions that run through much of the scholarship on children's literature. The volume includes essays by scholars in education! English! and library and information science; these diverse contributors stress the value of taking an interdisciplinary approach to the study of children's literature."-Children's Literature Association Quarterly"There is absolutely no valid reason not to own this book or have ready access to it at your institution."--The Learning Assistance Review"Wolf and her fellow editors present a great deal of excellent material that will prove helpful to those embarking on their own study of the subject. Highly recommended." -- Choice Informationen zum Autor Shelby A. Wolf is Professor of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Karen Coats is Professor of English and Director of English Education at Illinois State University. Patricia Enciso is Associate Professor of Literature, Literacy, and Equity Studies at The Ohio State University. Christine A. Jenkins is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Klappentext Distinguished by its multidisciplinary approach, this landmark Handbook is the first to bring together leading scholarship on children's and young adult literature from three intersecting disciplines: Education, English, and Library and Information Science. Zusammenfassung Distinguished by its multidisciplinary approach, this landmark Handbook is the first to bring together leading scholarship on children’s and young adult literature from three intersecting disciplines: Education, English, and Library and Information Science. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 The Reader; Chapter 1 Children Reading at Home, Evelyn Arizpe, Morag Styles; Chapter 2 Questioning the Value of Literacy, Eva-Maria Simms; Chapter 3 The Book as Home? It All Depends, Shirley Brice Heath; Chapter 4 Reading Literature in Elementary Classrooms, Kathy G. Short; Chapter 5 Readers, Texts, and Contexts in the Middle, Thomas P. Crumpler, Linda Wedwick; Chapter 6 Reading Literature in Secondary School, Cynthia Lewis, Jessica Dockter; Chapter 7 Imagining a Writer's Life, Elizabeth Dutro, Monette C. McIver; Chapter 8 Teaching Latina/o Children's Literature in Multicultural Contexts, María E. Fránquiz, Carmen Martínez-Roldán, Carmen I. Mercado; Chapter 9 School Libraries and the Transformation of Readers and Reading, Eliza T. Dresang, M. Bowie Kotrla; Chapter 10 Public Libraries in the Lives of Young Readers, Paulette M. Rothbauer, Virginia A. Walter, Kathleen Weibel; Chapter 11 Becoming Readers of Literature with LGBT Themes, Mollie V. Blackburn, Caroline T. Clark; Chapter 12 Immigrant Students as Cosmopolitan Intellectuals, Gerald Campano, María Paula Ghiso; Part 2 The Book; Chapter 13 History of Children's and Young Adult Literature, Deborah Stevenson; Chapter 13a Point of Departure, Lois Lowry; Chapter 14 Dime Novels and Series Books, Catherine Sheldrick Ross; Chapter 14a Point of Departure, Candice Ransom; Chapter 15 Folklore in Children's Literature, Betsy Hearne; Chapter 15a Point of Departure, Julius Lester; Chapter 16 African American Children's Literature, Rudine Sims Bishop; Chapter 16a Point of Departure, Jacqueline Woodson; Chapter 17 The Art of the Picturebook, Lawrence R. Sipe; Chapter 17a Point of Departure, Chris Raschka; Chapter 17b Point of Departure, David Wiesner; Chapter 18 Comics and Graphic Novels, Robin Brenner; Chapter 18a Point of Departure, Gareth Hinds; Chapter 18b Point of Departure, Raina Telgemeier; Chapter 19 A Burg...
