Read complete books and articles on: Famous Children's Books

At Questia, we offer:

Exclusive access to more than 67,000 books and 1.5 million articles.
Trusted resources from leading publishers.
Time saving tools to do better, faster research!

16 of the Best Books and Articles on: Famous Children's Books

as selected by Questia librarians

1.

The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature » Read Now
by Humphrey Carpenter, Mari Prichard. 594 pgs.

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

...joint author of nearly 200 books, many of them biographies of famous historical figures. He also...different kind. Two seminal books are BEVIS 1882 by Richard...connected...
2.

Engines of Instruction, Mischief, and Magic: Children's Literature in England from Its Beginnings to 1839 » Read Now
by Mary V. Jackson. 304 pgs.

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

...Amos Come nius s famous Orbis Sensualium...childrens emblem books and several eighteenth-century...known guided-tour books for children. There...History of the Two Famous...
3.

English Children's Books, 1600 to 1900 (1954) » Read Now
by Percy Muir. 258 pgs.

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

...42 Where childrens books were sold 95...45 A chapbook by a famous publisher 101...descriptive accounts of famous London buildings...written all these books himself...
4.

Reflections of Change: Children's Literature since 1945 » Read Now
by Sandra L. Beckett. 203 pgs.

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

Over the past fifty years, children's literature has freed itself of many traditional restrictions and has become a field of exciting innovations in both form and content. The new status of children's literature has been accompanied by an unprecedented growth in research on children's literature...
Read More

Over the past fifty years, children's literature has freed itself of many traditional restrictions and has become a field of exciting innovations in both form and content. The new status of children's literature has been accompanied by an unprecedented growth in research on children's literature internationally. This volume explores the many changes that have taken place in the past half-century in children's literature, showing how those changes reflect our rapidly-changing world and attempt to prepare children for the new millennium. Among the issues discussed are the shifting boundaries between children's literature and adult literature, postmodern trends, paradigm shifts, national literatures, and the reconceptualization of the past.
Show less
5.

Good Stories for Great Holidays: Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Children's Own Reading (1914) » Read Now
by Frances Jenkins Olcott. 461 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Baldwin, Thirty More Famous Stories Retold 213...in them two beautiful books, with pages as pure...corn three days, and the books yours." Had Mr. Crawford...the great...
6.

The Fantastic Sublime: Romanticism and Transcendence in Nineteenth-Century Children's Fantasy Literature » Read Now
by David Sandner. 162 pgs.

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

Many Victorian and Edwardian fantasy stories began as extemporaneous oral tales told for the delight of children and, like Alice in Wonderland and The Wind in the Willows, were written down by chance. These fanciful stories, told with child-like spontaneity, are analyzed here to argue their role in...
Read More

Many Victorian and Edwardian fantasy stories began as extemporaneous oral tales told for the delight of children and, like Alice in Wonderland and The Wind in the Willows, were written down by chance. These fanciful stories, told with child-like spontaneity, are analyzed here to argue their role in the revolution not only of children's literature, but of the general conception of childhood. In contrast to the traditional moral tales of the 18th century that were written with the express purpose of instructing children how to become adults, this literature that Sandner identifies as the "fantastic sublime" reveled in the imagination and the enjoyment of reading. By looking at the structure of the Romantic sublime and inventing and exploring the structure of the fantastic sublime, this work offers a completely new way to examine 19th-century children's fantasy literature, and perhaps, fantastic literature in general.
Show less
7.

This Land Is Our Land: A Guide to Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults » Read Now
by Alethea K. Helbig, Agnes Regan Perkins. 403 pgs.

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

How do you select the best recent works of fiction, oral tradition, and poetry about African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic-American, and Native-American Indian experiences and traditions from the profusion of titles being published today? This annotated bibliography of titles for children and...
Read More

How do you select the best recent works of fiction, oral tradition, and poetry about African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic-American, and Native-American Indian experiences and traditions from the profusion of titles being published today? This annotated bibliography of titles for children and young adults published from 1985 through the end of 1993--with 60% published since 1990--provides a one-stop selection tool. The authors, who are recognized authorities in children's literature and have written six previous references, provide insightful critical appraisals of 559 books, as well as information about an additional 188 recent books and 90 earlier books of importance. An advisory board of librarians and teachers, each of whom specializes in the literature of a particular ethnic group, have provided expertise and guidance in the selection of titles.
Show less
8.

Science Fiction, Children's Literature, and Popular Culture: Coming of Age in Fantasyland » Read Now
by Gary Westfahl. 164 pgs.

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

Literature often is central to individual maturation. It typically reflects, in one way or another, the experiences of the reader and the larger strains of society. This book examines representative works of science fiction, children's literature, and popular culture as mirrors of what it means to...
Read More

Literature often is central to individual maturation. It typically reflects, in one way or another, the experiences of the reader and the larger strains of society. This book examines representative works of science fiction, children's literature, and popular culture as mirrors of what it means to grow up in the contemporary world. That world is permeated by technology, and technology thus figures prominently in the process of growing up and in these literary works. Included are chapters on Superman, the Hardy Boys, Star Trek, music videos, and other topics.
Show less
9.

Science Books & Films' Best Books for Children, 1988-91 » Read Now
by Maria Sosa, Shirley M. Malcom. 300 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...compendium of some of the more famous ancient mammals that have become...the same format as the other books in this series for young readers...environment. Like the other...
10.

Children's Literature in China: From Lu Xun to Mao Zedong » Read Now
by Mary Ann Farquhar. 336 pgs.

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

This book introduces the major works and debates in Chinese children's literature within the framework of China's revolution and modernization. It demonstrates that the guiding rationale in children's literature was the political importance of children as the nation's future.
11.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1898) » Read Now
by Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel. 124 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...theres hardly room for you, and no room at all for any lesson-books!" And so she went on, taking first one side and then the other...in a court of justice before, but she...
12.

The Pilgrim's Progress » Read Now
by John Bunyan, N. H. Keeble. 302 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

One of the best-selling books of all time, The Pilgrim's Progress holds a unique place in the history of English literature. Bunyan captures the speech of ordinary people as accurately as he depicts their behavior and appearance and as firmly as he realizes their inner emotional and spiritual life.
13.

Little Women » Read Now
by Louisa May Alcott, Valerie Alderson. 490 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This classic story of the March family women and their lives in New England during the Civil War has remained enduringly popular since its publication in 1868. Poor, argumentative, loving, and optimistic, the March sisters struggle to supplement their family's meager income and realize their own...
Read More

This classic story of the March family women and their lives in New England during the Civil War has remained enduringly popular since its publication in 1868. Poor, argumentative, loving, and optimistic, the March sisters struggle to supplement their family's meager income and realize their own dreams. This highly autobiographical novel shows us women who are strong-minded and independent in their determination to control their own destiny. The introduction to this edition provides a fascinating history of the Alcotts, and a biographical history of Louisa Alcott's own struggles as a writer.
Show less
14.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1920) » Read Now
by Mark Twain. 296 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...to hold such language?" "I, indeed! I am Robin Hood, as thy caitiff carcass soon shall know." "Then art thou indeed that famous outlaw? Right gladly will I dispute with...
15.

Treasure Island » Read Now
by Robert Louis Stevenson, Emma Letley. 220 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

"Treasure Island will surely become--it must already have become, and will remain--in its way a classic."--Henry James. An absorbing tale of buccaneers and a romantic quest for treasure, Treasure Island is also the portrait of the briliantly drawn character, Long John Silver.
16.

The Adventures of Pinocchio (1904) » Read Now
by C. Collodi, Walter S. Cramp, Sara E. H. Lockwood, Charles Copeland. 212 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...sand. They finally took their spelling books, geographies, histories, and arithmetics...quick and dodged every one, so that the books went over him and fell into the...