Download or read book The Complete Bostock and Harris written by Leon Garfield and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Review Children's Collection Original The Complete Bostock and Harris combines two delightful, suspenseful, and madly funny tales about two boys in eighteenth-century England, clever and mischievous Harris and sweet but not-so-bright Bostock, who in spite of their differences are the best of friends. In “The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris,” the wily pair put their classical education to the test when they adopt the Spartan custom of exposing infants to the wild, leaving Harris’s infant sister, Adelaide, to the elements. The boys imagine a wolf will come to nourish her, but their plan backfires. It is springtime in “The Night of the Comet,” and in the days before Pigott’s comet will pass over their town, Harris’s and Bostock’s thoughts turn to love: Bostock swoons over Harris’s sister Mary; Harris longs for Captain Bostock’s telescope. The boys strike a deal: Bostock will make off with the telescope in exchange for Harris’s “expert” wooing advice. Unfortunately, that expertise is not quite what Bostock would have hoped.
Download or read book Bostock and Harris Or The Night of the Comet written by Leon Garfield and published by . This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harris offers Bostock the affections of his sister in exchange for the brass telescope of Bostock's father and starts a string of misunderstandings about who is courting whom in Brighton
Download or read book Children s Books and Their Creators written by Anita Silvey and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1995 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique in its coverage of contemporary American children's literature, this timely, single-volume reference covers the books our children are--or should be--reading now, from board books to young adult novels. Enriched with dozens of color illustrations and the voices of authors and illustrators themselves, it is a cornucopia of delight. 23 color, 153 b&w illustrations.
Download or read book Smith The Story of a Pickpocket written by Leon Garfield and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Carnegie Medal Honor Book Twelve-year-old Smith is a denizen of the mean streets of eighteenth-century London, living hand to mouth by virtue of wit and pluck. One day he trails an old gentleman with a bulging pocket, deftly picks it, and as footsteps ring out from the alley by which he had planned to make his escape, finds himself in a tough spot. Taking refuge in a doorway, he sees two men emerge to murder the man who was his mark. They rifle the dead man’s pockets and finding them empty, depart in a rage. Smith, terrified, flees the scene of the crime. What has he stolen that is worth the life of a man? Smith is a gripping, engrossing, and utterly diverting tale of high adventure related by a writer whose scintillating style is matched only by the dazzle of his plotting. In the words of Lloyd Alexander, “Garfield is unmatched for sheer exciting storytelling. The reader simply can’t stop reading him.”
Download or read book The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children s Literature written by Bernice E. Cullinan and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides articles covering children's literature from around the world as well as biographical and critical reviews of authors including Avi, C.S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling, and Anno Mitsumasa.
Download or read book Dictionary of British Children s Fiction written by Alethea Helbig and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Best in Children s Books written by University of Chicago. Center for Children's Books and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1986-08 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to aid adults—parents, teachers, librarians—in selecting from the best of recent children's literature, this guide provides 1,400 reviews of books published between 1979 and 1984. This volume carries on the tradition established by Zena Sutherland's two earlier collections covering the periods from 1966 to 1972 and 1973 to 1978. Her 1973 edition of The Best in Children's Books was cited by the American School Board Journal as one of the outstanding books of the year in education.
Download or read book The Night of the Comet written by Leon Garfield and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harris offers Bostock the affections of his sister in exchange for the brass telescope of Bostock's father and starts a string of misunderstandings about who is courting whom in Brighton.
Download or read book British Children s Writers Since 1960 written by Caroline Collins Hunt and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 1996 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on authors whose works range from the traditional or reactionary, to the experimental. During this time, the "problem novel" gained ground. Competition from other media, such as the television, influenced the juvenile-book market. During this period a publishers' group was formed to give serious thought to the direction in which juvenile books should go.
Download or read book Kaapse bibliotekaris written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues for Nov. 1957- include section: Accessions. Aanwinste, Sept. 1957- (also published separately)
Download or read book Writers for Young Adults written by Theodore W. Hipple and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains articles on writers whose works are popular with young adults, including contemporary authors, such as Francesca Lia Block and Maya Angelou, and classic authors, such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Louisa May Alcott.
Download or read book Dictionary of British Children s Fiction N Z written by Alethea Helbig and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leon Garfield written by Roni Natov and published by New York : Twayne Publishers ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International. This book was released on 1994 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through his historical novels, adventure stories, ghost stories, satires, fairy tales, and retellings of myths and legends, Leon Garfield consistently portrays the mystery of human identity, which he describes as "the only mystery one can unravel endlessly". In this first book-length study of the author of Smith (1967), The Apprentices (1976), John Diamond (1981), and The December Rose (1986), Roni Natov engagingly chronicles the career of a natural storyteller, a man whose work is permeated with the theme of spiritual renewal. Natov, asserts that, like Charles Dickens (to whom he is most often compared) and the romantics before him, Garfield explores how the outcast child finds the potential to repair the fractured family by creating symbolic bonds with the larger community. Virtually all Garfield's work, Natov argues, gives voice to the private concerns of those rendered poor and impotent by class and social order. She shows how in his largely allegorical works Garfield dramatizes the problems of members of the underclass while asserting their individualism and vitality. An insightful and biographically rich interview with Garfield prefaces Natov's lucid, genre-organized study. From there she analyzes the theme of the search for the father in Garfield's early novels and proceeds to cover the ghost stories, the fiction of satire and parody, the historical fiction, the myths, fairy tales, and legends, and what she calls the "new morality" in Garfield's fiction. In discussing Garfield's later novels she focuses again on the theme of the search for the father. In assessing Garfield's place among contemporary children's writers, Natov finds him unique in the way he uses his heroes: for himthey represent those on the brink, still malleable though aware and able to articulate their perpetual state of becoming. In them, and in their historical past, Garfield finds hope for the future, Natov contends: she sees Garfield as interested in resurrecting a new social order out of what has been discarded from the traditional story of British history. Natov's analysis is essential reading not only for students of children's literature but also for those interested in historical fiction generally, for, as Garfield has said, although young readers are his primary audience, he does not necessarily write with the child in mind.
Download or read book British Book News written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Horn Book Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Junior High School Library Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literature for Today s Young Adults written by Kenneth L. Donelson and published by Pearson Scott Foresman. This book was released on 1985 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
