Download or read book Hairy Tales and Nursery Crimes written by Michael Rosen and published by Trentham Books. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together two much-loved books of poetry for the first time, Hairy Tales and Nursery Crimes and Arabian Frights and Other Gories is a topsy-turvy collection of fun rhymes and fairytales, re-worked by award-winning former ChildrenÆs Laureate, Michael Rosen. Laugh-out-loud, inventive and fun, these poems will inspire kids to see reading as a playful activity which can be shared with friends and family.
Download or read book Hairy Tales and Nursery Crimes written by Michael ROSEN and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hairy Tales and Nursery Crimes written by Michael Rosen and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nursery Crimes written by Devon Monk and published by Odd House Press. This book was released on with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA TODAY Bestselling fantasy author, Devon Monk serves up an exciting, funny, hard-boiled fantasy This is the city of Las Fables. I work here. I’m Detective Peter Peter. I put ‘em in the pumpkin shell. Las Fables is a land of fairy tales and rhymes. Sure, it used to be made of sugar and spice, but Mother Goose flew the coop and hasn’t been seen in years. Darkness has settled over the town, whiffling and galumphing down the yellow brick lanes. When the Seven Dwarves are gunned down in the Old Woman’s Shoe Bar, Detective Peter Peter and his partner Jack Horner are on the case. No matter how over the hill and far away the clues take them, they’ll see that justice is served–not too hot, not too cold, but just right. Of course it isn’t just crime on Peter Peter’s mind. There’s a dame named Muffet who’s got him in a tizzy. And it’s gonna take all of his will power to keep his heart from tumbling down after her.
Download or read book From the Garden to the Street written by Morag Styles and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1997-06-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From John Bunyan's 'country rhimes' to rude chants about Manchester United, from Ted Hughes to Edward Lear, and from William Blake to the Taylor sisters, Morag Styles covers three hundred years of poetry with infectious enthusiasm and a keen critical eye. In this scholarly and fascinating book, she provides an informative account of the history of poetry written for children in Britain and America in the last three centuries. She analyses the major poets, genres and developments over this period, and traces the continuities between the past and the present. Styles asks fundamental questions which have often been left unanswered: What do we mean by children's poetry? Why did such a seemingly small number of women write poetry for children until recently? The author subscribes to the widest possible definition of poetry, and so the reader will find in this book hymns, songs, playground rhymes, raps and verse - whether trivial or profound. From the Garden to the Street will provoke, inform and entertain academics of children's literature, those who teach it in the classroom, and all of us who still take pleasure in the poetry of childhood.
Download or read book Greater Expectations written by Eve Bearnes and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1995-11-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first two sections of this work consider two questions: what does children's writing reveal about their reading experience and competence?; and how can teachers help children to become more careful and critical readers of their own and other people's writing?. In the third section these questions are placed in a theoretical frame which tackles some of the more fundemental issues of culture, language diversity and gender, the relationship between oracy and literacy and how best to help children for whom literacy is a struggle. The final section gives some practical guidance for developing a full and successful literacy curriculum.
Download or read book Humor in Contemporary Junior Literature written by Julie Cross and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new book, Julie Cross examines the intricacies of textual humor in contemporary junior literature, using the tools of literary criticism and humor theory. Cross investigates the dialectical paradoxes of humor and debunks the common belief in oppositional binaries of ‘simple’ versus ‘complex’ humor. The varied combinations of so-called high and low forms of humor within junior texts for young readers, who are at such a crucial stage of their reading and social development, provide a valuable commentary upon the culture and values of contemporary western society, making the book of considerable interest to scholars of both children’s literature and childhood studies. Cross explores the ways in which the changing content, forms and functions of the many varied combinations of humor in junior texts, including the Lemony Snickett series, reveal societal attitudes towards young children and childhood. The new compounds of seemingly paradoxical high and low forms of humor, in texts for developing readers from the 1960s onwards, reflect and contribute to contemporary society’s hesitant and uneven acceptance of the emergent paradigm of children’s rights, abilities, participation and empowerment. Cross identifies four types of potentially subversive/transgressive humor which have emerged since the 1960s which, coupled with the three main theories of humor – relief, superiority and incongruity theories – enables a long-overdue charting of developments in humor within junior texts. Cross also argues that the gradual increase in the compounding of the simple and the complex provide opportunities for young readers to play with ambiguous, complicated ideas, helping them embrace the complexities and contradictions of contemporary life.
Download or read book From Tongue to Text A New Reading of Children s Poetry written by Debbie Pullinger and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The connection between childhood and poetry runs deep. And yet, poetry written for children has been neglected by criticism and resists prevailing theories of children's literature. Drawing on Walter Ong's theory of orality and on Iain McGilChrist's work on brain function, this book develops a new theoretical framework for the study of children's poetry. From Tongue to Text argues that the poem is a multimodal form that exists in the borderlands between the world of experience and the world of language and between orality and literacy – places that children themselves inhabit. Engaging with a wide range of poetry from nursery rhymes and Christina Rossetti to Michael Rosen and Carol Ann Duffy, Debbie Pullinger demonstrates how these 'tactful' works are shaped by the dynamics of orality and textuality.
Download or read book Growing and Knowing A Selection Guide for Children s Literature written by Mary Trim and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2005-04-25 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Growing and Knowing: A Selection Guide for Children's Literature".
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales written by Jack Zipes and published by Oxford Companions. This book was released on 2015 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Oxford companion provides an authoritative reference source for fairy tales, exploring the tales themselves, both ancient and modern, the writers who wrote and reworked them and related topics such as film, art, opera and even advertising.
Download or read book Enriching Literacy written by Robin Richardson and published by Trentham Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book arises from teachers looking closely at how children learn to use English as an additional language in both speech and writing. The book describes practical strategies and activities which help bilingual children to become competent in the formal academic language required by the curriculum. It is a useful practical primary resource of relevance the whole English-speaking world, particularly at a time when literacy is seen as more vital a skill than ever but when the distinctive needs, strengths and skills bilingual children seem to be largely ignored in official policy.
Download or read book Better Books Better Readers written by Linda Hart-Hewins and published by Pembroke Publishers Limited. This book was released on 1999 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grade level: 1, 2, 3, k, p, e, t.
Download or read book Poems Please written by David Booth and published by Pembroke Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2003 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses children's poetry, the techniques and forms of poetry, and related topics, and provides advice for teachers on such aspects of using poetry in the classroom as reading aloud, dramatization, and student poetry writing.
Download or read book On First Reading written by Frances James and published by Folens Limited. This book was released on 1993 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'On first reading' presents invaluable ideas and creative activities for developing reading skills with children from four to seven."--Cover.
Download or read book Developing Language and Literacy with Young Children written by Marian R Whitehead and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2002-05-24 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author reasserts the importance of children's relationships and communications with people who care about them, spend time with them, and share in the excitement of their developing languages and their investigations of literacy.
Download or read book Nursery Crimes written by Ayelet Waldman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Smart sleuthing…the way [Juliet] maintains her sense of humor while juggling detective chores and baby duty is awesome.”—The New York Times A public defender turned Stay-at-home mom, Juliet Applebaum is bored with playdates and trips to the park—so near the end of her second pregnancy, she gets off the mommy track to track down a murderer…. Juliet isn’t too surprised when her feisty, tantrum-throwing two-year-old daughter doesn’t get into Hollywood’s premier preschool—but she’s shocked and suspicious when the school’s principal is killed in a hit-and-run accident. Against the advice of her screenwriter husband, and with her rambunctious toddler in tow, Juliet heads to the local playground to dig up some dirt on a disgruntled studio executive whose daughter wasn’t offered a place in the school. But she has some surprising new suspects to consider when her investigation takes her into a seedy on-line newsgroup—and the most dangerous parts of the human heart…. “[Juliet is] a lot like Elizabeth Peters’s warm and humorous Amelia Peabody—a brassy, funny, quick-witted protagonist.”—The Houston Chronicle
Download or read book Literacy Learning Through Talk written by Corden, Roy and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2000-07-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the inter-relationship between reading, writing and speaking and listening. This work blends theory, research and practice to show how an integrated programme of work can be developed to ensure that literacy is taught in a vibrant and stimulating way. It also examines strategies for developing successful group work.
