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Moominpappa at Sea

Publisher : Sort of Books
Release Date : 2018-06-04
ISBN : 9781908745705
Pages : 176 pages
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Download or read book Moominpappa at Sea written by Tove Jansson and published by Sort of Books. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moominpappa yearns to make a fresh start, to find a rocky island and lighthouse where he'll feel alert and important again. And so the Moomins set sail for a new home. Moominpappa's longed-for-island proves as mysterious and wild and he'd hoped. It even has a deserted lighthouse. But how is Moominmamma to grow her flowers and what could have happened to the last keeper of the lighthouse?

Tove Jansson Life, Art, Words

by Boel Westin

Publisher : Sort of Books
Release Date : 2013-12-18
ISBN : 1908745460
Pages : 398 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (98 users)

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Download or read book Tove Jansson Life, Art, Words written by Boel Westin and published by Sort of Books. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Finnish-Swedish writer and artist Tove Jansson achieved worldwide fame as the creator of the Moomin stories, written between 1945 and 1970 and still in print in more than twenty languages. However, the Moomins were only a part of her prodigious output. Already admired in Nordic art circles as a painter, cartoonist and illustrator, she would go on to write a series of classic novels and short stories. She remains Scandinavia's best loved author. Tove Jansson's work reflected the tenets of her life: her love of family (and special bond with her mother), of nature, and her insistence on freedom to pursue her art. Love and work was the motto she chose for herself and her approach to both was joyful and uncompromising. If her relationships with men foundered on her ambivalence towards marriage, those with women came as a revelation, especially the love and companionship she found with her long-time partner, the artist Tuulikki Pietilä, with whom she lived on the solitary island of Klovharu. In this meticulously researched, authorised biography, Boel Westin draws together the many threads of Jansson's life: from the studies interrupted to help her family; the dark shades of war and her emergence as an artist with a studio of her own; to the years of Moomin-mania, and later novel writing. Based on numerous conversations with Tove, and unprecedented access to her journals, letters and personal archives, Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words offers a rare and privileged insight into the world of a writer whom Philip Pullman described, simply, as 'a genius'.

Children's Literature and the Posthuman

by Zoe Jaques

Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2015-02-11
ISBN : 1136674845
Pages : 284 pages
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Download or read book Children's Literature and the Posthuman written by Zoe Jaques and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of identity formation in children's literature, this book brings together children’s literature and recent critical concerns with posthuman identity to argue that children’s fiction offers sophisticated interventions into debates about what it means to be human, and in particular about humanity’s relationship to animals and the natural world. In complicating questions of human identity, ecology, gender, and technology, Jaques engages with a multifaceted posthumanism to understand how philosophy can emerge from children's fantasy, disclosing how such fantasy can build upon earlier traditions to represent complex issues of humanness to younger audiences. Interrogating the place of the human through the non-human (whether animal or mechanical) leads this book to have interpretations that radically depart from the critical tradition, which, in its concerns with the socialization and representation of the child, has ignored larger epistemologies of humanness. The book considers canonical texts of children's literature alongside recent bestsellers and films, locating texts such as Gulliver’s Travels (1726), Pinocchio (1883) and the Alice books (1865, 1871) as important works in the evolution of posthuman ideas. This study provides radical new readings of children’s literature and demonstrates that the genre offers sophisticated interventions into the nature, boundaries and dominion of humanity.

Boys And Girls Forever

by Alison Lurie

Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2011-01-11
ISBN : 1446434478
Pages : 256 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (446 users)

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Download or read book Boys And Girls Forever written by Alison Lurie and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are some of the world's most talented writers of children's books essentially children themselves? In this engaging series of essays, Pulitzer prize-winning author Alison Lurie considers this theory, exploring children's classics from many eras and relating them to the authors who wrote them, including Louisa May Alcott, creator of Little Women, and Salman Rushdie and his Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Dr Seuss and J. K. Rowling. In analysing these and many other authors, Alison Lurie shows how these gifted writers have used children's literature to transfigure sorrow, nostalgia and the struggles of their own experience.

Beyond Babar

by Sandra L. Beckett

Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2006-08-19
ISBN : 1461656796
Pages : 336 pages
Rating Book: 4.6/5 (461 users)

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Download or read book Beyond Babar written by Sandra L. Beckett and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2006-08-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Babar: The European Tradition in Children's Literature examines in depth eleven of the most celebrated European children's novels in substantial, critical essays written by well-known international scholars. This approach provides a comprehensive discussion of the selected works from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Each essay offers a critical introduction to the text that can serve as a point of departure for literary scholars, professors of children's literature, primary and secondary school teachers, and librarians who are interested in texts that cross languages and cultures.

The Publishers Weekly

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Release Date : 1993
ISBN :
Pages : pages
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The Moomins: The World of Moominvalley

by Macmillan Adult's Books

Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2020-05-28
ISBN : 152905575X
Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Moomins: The World of Moominvalley written by Macmillan Adult's Books and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A showstopping luxury gift book to cherish for years to come, The Moomins: The World of Moominvalley is the ultimate guide for any Moomin fan, old and new. Step into the magical world of Moominvalley with this beautiful one of a kind book; a fun, fascinating, behind the scenes look at the wonderful world of the Moomins and their creator, Tove Jansson. Filled with illustrated maps and family trees, facts about Moomintroll behaviour and habits, this gorgeous book contains all you could wish to know about the beloved characters from the original Moomin stories and the world in which they live. Find out all about Moomintroll's adventures, Moominmamma's handbag and Moominpappa's diary and discover all the favourite Moomin characters, including Snork Maiden, Snufkin, Sniff and Little My. Get a glimpse behind the studio door of the uniquely talented Tove Jansson. Featuring original Moomin drawings, colour studies and stunning sketches of her iconic characters, as well as family photographs and Tove's childhood drawings. With a luxuriously designed die-cut cover featuring gold foil, this breathtaking hardback is the perfect addition to the collection of any Moomin fan. Written by the winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, Philip Ardagh, with contributions from bestselling children's author, screenwriter and Moomin devotee, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, The Moomins: The World of Moominvalley is a highly illustrated, beautifully designed gift book for all Moomin fans to treasure.

The Publishers' Trade List Annual

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Release Date : 1974
ISBN :
Pages : 2040 pages
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, 1975-1991

by R. Reginald

Publisher : Detroit : Gale Research
Release Date : 1992
ISBN :
Pages : 1512 pages
Rating Book: 4.9/5 (49 users)

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Download or read book Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, 1975-1991 written by R. Reginald and published by Detroit : Gale Research. This book was released on 1992 with total page 1512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction constitutes one of the largest and most widely read genres in literature, and this reference provides bibliographical data on some 20,000 science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction books, as well as nonfiction monographs about the literature. A companion to Reginald's Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, 1700-1974 (Gale, 1979), the present volume is alphabetically arranged by approximately 10,000 author names. The entry for each individual work includes title, publisher, date and place published, number of pages, hardbound or paperback format, and type of book (novel, anthology, etc.). Where appropriate, entries also provide translation notes, series information, pseudonyms, and remarks on special features (such as celebrity introductions). Includes indexes of titles, series, awards, and "doubles" (for locating volumes containing two novels). Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

The Whole Story

by John E. Simkin

Publisher : K G Saur Verlag Gmbh & Company
Release Date : 1996
ISBN :
Pages : 1198 pages
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Download or read book The Whole Story written by John E. Simkin and published by K G Saur Verlag Gmbh & Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is the only comprehensive guide to sequels in English, with over 84,000 works by 12,500 authors in 17,000 sequences.

Stories of Childhood

by Dean W. Duncan

Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2015-10-20
ISBN : 0786471328
Pages : 293 pages
Rating Book: 4.8/5 (786 users)

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Download or read book Stories of Childhood written by Dean W. Duncan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study questions the widely held perception that books, as an artistic medium, are superior to and more respectable than film or television, sometimes considered frivolous and pernicious. Criticism of both the big and small screens often obscures their signal accomplishments and the entertainment and insight they provide. The author analyzes our distaste for these media--and the romanticizing of the printed word that accompanies it--and argues that books and films are in fact quite complementary. A broad survey of film and TV offerings explores what enacted narratives have taught us about the nature of childhood.

Moominsummer Madness

by Tove Jansson

Publisher : Sort of Books
Release Date : 2018-06-04
ISBN : 9781908745699
Pages : 176 pages
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Download or read book Moominsummer Madness written by Tove Jansson and published by Sort of Books. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a grumbling volcano causes Moominvalley to flood, the Moomins escape by boat, finding refuge on a floating theatre. Adventures abound when the theatre casts adrift leaving Moomin,The Snorkmaiden and Little My marooned. Will they all be reunited before the final curtain?

From Mythic to Linear

by Maria Nikolajeva

Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 1991-01-01
ISBN : 1461658756
Pages : 318 pages
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Download or read book From Mythic to Linear written by Maria Nikolajeva and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this radically new approach to text typology, Maria Nikolajeva examines the depiction of time in literature for children.

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy

by Gary Westfahl

Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date : 2005
ISBN : 9780313329517
Pages : 498 pages
Rating Book: 4.2/5 (329 users)

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Download or read book The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy written by Gary Westfahl and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2005 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive three-volume reference work offers six hundred entries, with the first two volumes covering themes and the third volume exploring two hundred classic works in literature, television, and film.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Series and Sequels

by Tim Cottrill

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Release Date : 1986
ISBN :
Pages : 430 pages
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New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art

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Release Date : 1978
ISBN :
Pages : 1218 pages
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Britannica Junior Encyclopaedia for Boys and Girls

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Release Date : 1973
ISBN :
Pages : 724 pages
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