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van Rij, Vivien – Children's Literature in Education, 2013
This paper examines the work of one of New Zealand's most acclaimed writers, Maurice Gee, and the use of his children's fiction as an experimental ground for postmodernist techniques further developed in his writing for adults. In particular, it considers Gee's borrowings of his own and others' non-fictional and fictional material, to produce…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Childrens Literature, Authors, Fiction
Dawson, Janis – Children's Literature in Education, 2007
This article discusses Philip Reeve's young adult science fiction novels as literary collages. It explores the ways in which the author uses postmodernisms to introduce big ideas and construct a compelling futuristic world that combines fast-paced adventure with the "bildungsroman".
Descriptors: Novels, Adolescent Literature, Science Fiction, Postmodernism
Peer reviewed
Tabbert, Reinbert – Children's Literature in Education, 2000
Considers how a modern author succeeds in giving new life to traditional motifs and patterns. Discusses the first book by Carol Hughes, "Toots and the Upside Down House." Discusses the practice of adopting patterns and motifs of literary traditions. Considers features of postmodernism and biographical implications in her work. (SC)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Fantasy, Literary Genres, Literary Styles
Daley-Carey, Ebony – Children's Literature in Education, 2018
Coming-of-age stories have conventionally constructed the development of subjectivity as a linear, cohesive, and ultimately empowering process. Narrative closure is thus typically contingent on the adolescent protagonist's ability to acquire an agentic form of self-knowledge and integrate productively into the adult world. In contrast, the failure…
Descriptors: Postmodernism, Adolescent Literature, Adolescent Development, Literary Genres
Yoo, Hyun-Joo – Children's Literature in Education, 2019
Writing as an African American woman existing at the margins of American society in the mid 1970s, Mildred D. Taylor demonstrated a postmodern awareness of fictionality and history in "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" (1976). Reworking African American history from the point of view and voice of a black subaltern female child, Taylor…
Descriptors: United States History, African American History, Novels, African American Literature
Wilson, Melissa B.; Short, Kathy G. – Children's Literature in Education, 2012
The myth of home is what distinguishes children's literature from adult novels (Wolf 1990). Nodelman and Reimer ("The Pleasures of Children's Literature," 2003) write that while "the home/away/home pattern is the most common story line in children's literature, adult fiction that deals with young people who leave home usually ends…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Novels, Content Analysis, Postmodernism
Pantaleo, Sylvia – Children's Literature in Education, 2010
Narrative embedding is a common narrative structural device. Genette (1980, 1988) distinguished among various diegetic levels to explain the discrete narrative levels in embedded narratives and he defined metalepsis as the deliberate disturbing or breaking of narrative boundaries. Metalepsis, described by Malina (2002) as a mutinous narrative…
Descriptors: Narration, Fiction, Picture Books, Postmodernism
Heinecken, Dawn – Children's Literature in Education, 2010
This essay examines Eleanor Estes's critically neglected 1960 novel "The Witch Family", arguing that the novel anticipates some of the major preoccupations of later children's literature in its early concern with issues of textuality. While Estes is largely known as a writer of simple family stories, "The Witch Family" is an innovative work of…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Postmodernism, Language Role, Ethics
O'Neil, Kathleen – Children's Literature in Education, 2010
Children's literature has long been used by parents and teachers to impart social values and expectations as well as to entertain children. Postmodern picturebooks jar this tradition by stimulating readers to question and rethink societal norms. However, these books also feature many cultural attributes that hold fast: loving families are still a…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Childrens Literature, Social Values, Picture Books
Ciocia, Stefania – Children's Literature in Education, 2009
Mark Haddon's "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time", the first novel to be published simultaneously for the UK adult and children's market, exemplifies the phenomenon of crossover literature better perhaps than the "Harry Potter" series, whose appeal to a dual-aged audience had caught the publishing industry by…
Descriptors: Publishing Industry, Audiences, Children, Novels
Chappell, Drew – Children's Literature in Education, 2008
JK Rowling's "Harry Potter" novels situate their child protagonists in a fantastical world side by side with present day British society. Through the characters' choices and realizations, young readers are introduced to the complexities and ambiguities of the contemporary world. Harry and his friends embrace these qualities of postmodern…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Novels, Fantasy, Foreign Countries
Pantaleo, Sylvia – Children's Literature in Education, 2007
"The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales" (1992) by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith was awarded a Randolph Caldecott Honor Medal in 1993. Scieszka and Smith subvert textual authority through playing "with literary and cultural codes and conventions" (McCallum 1996, p. 400) in their metafictive text. In this article, I discuss the…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Picture Books, Parody, Postmodernism
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Smith, Vivienne – Children's Literature in Education, 2001
Considers how lift-the-flap books attract very little critical attention. Attempts to redress this imbalance by suggesting that lift-the-flap books provide useful lessons in reading both literature and pictures for the young reader, that a grammar of lift-the-flap books can be postulated to facilitate their description and discussion, and that the…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Literary Criticism, Postmodernism
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McClay, Jill Kedersha – Children's Literature in Education, 2000
Considers some aspects of contemporary picture books that can be especially engaging for readers young and old. Reports a study of readers of various ages who read and discussed David Macaulay's picture book "Black and White." Considers questions of concern that these readings raise for adults who are interested in children's reading.…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Early Childhood Education, Picture Books, Postmodernism