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Informationen zum Autor Peter, the only child of John and Margaret Hunt, was born in Brighton on 5th July, 1940 but, at the age of five, began his formative childhood in post-war Hong Kong.At the age of seven, he was sent back to England to complete his education as a boarder first at Worth Preparatory school and, from age thirteen, at Downside Public School. He completed that phase of his education at Trinity College, Dublin, where he studied English and Italian.He moved to London where he began his career in advertising and marketing taking a sabbatical to graduate from Cranfield's School of Management. From there, he worked for Jimmy Goldsmith marketing confectionery before moving on to work for the Jamaican Government marketing Jamaican products in Europe and, finally, with his stepson setting up a number of retail American sports shops, called Slick Willies, and an import company, called American Actionwear.Eventually, he inherited his parents' home in Jersey and moved there some thirty years ago with his wife who, tragically, died of cancer aged 50. Later, he met Jennifer Ann who has now been his partner for over 20 years.In Jersey, he wrote articles for the local newspaper, the Jersey EveningPost, and five books about Jersey. He has recently completed three books about his eventful and unusual life entitled Child of a bygone era, the Growing pains of acolonial boy and the Autumn years of a colonial boy. They are available from Amazon. Klappentext Children's literature has recently produced a body of criticism with a highly distinctive voice. The book consolidates understanding of this area by including some of the most important essays published in the field in the last five years, demonstrating the links between literary criticism, education, psychology, history and scientific theory. It includes Peter Hollindale's award- winning essay on Ideology and Children's Literature, topics from metafiction and post-modernism to fractal geometry, and the examination of texts ranging from picture books to The Wizard of Oz and the the Australian classic Midnite . Sources are as disparate as Signal and the Children's Literature Association Quarterly , and the international community is represented by writers from Britain, the USA, Canada, Australia and Germany. Each essay is set in its critical context by extensive quotation from authoritative articles. Zusammenfassung This volume reprints some of the most important essays published in the field of children's literature in the last five years and includes three new essays on folklore and science fiction, psychology, and cultural studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part 1 Ideology; Part 2 Criticism: The State of the Art; Part 3 Internationalism; Part 4 Poetry, Response and Education; Part 5 Connections;...
