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Bathrobes and Bibles, Waves and Words in Katherine Paterson's "Jacob Have I Loved."
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McGavran, James Holt, Jr. – Children's Literature in Education, 1986
Examines the Christian, humanist, and romantic dimensions of "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson. (HOD)
Descriptors: Authors, Characterization, Childrens Literature, Christianity
The Symbolic Center: "Little House in the Big Woods."
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Wolf, Virginia L. – Children's Literature in Education, 1982
Discusses the vision of harmony in the memory of Laura Ingalls Wilder and argues that her books are more nearly romance than fiction. (HOD)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Language Usage, Literary Criticism, Literary Styles
Digging Up "The Secret Garden": Noble Innocents or Little Savages?
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Wilkie, Christine – Children's Literature in Education, 1997
Offers a rereading of Frances Hodgson Burnett's "The Secret Garden," finding in it the triumph of Apollonian male rationalism over the Dionysian female cult of nature. Examines images of primitivism and wildness in the book, connecting them to polarities in conceptions of primitivism. (SR)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education, Literary Criticism, Literary History
Childhood and Travel Literature.
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Espey, David – 1995
If children are not present in most travel literature--precisely because the genre has most typically been the domain of solitary male travelers who are escaping domestic obligation, routine, the familiar, and the family--they nevertheless are an integral part of the genre. The traveler is in many ways a child, an innocent abroad. Traveler writers…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature, Literary Criticism