Peter hollindales signs of childness in childrens books 1997, 20 years on day symposium, 05052017 department of education, university of york uk hg21, the eynns room. Type book authors peter hollindale date 1997 publisher thimble pub place stroud isbn10 0903355442 isbn 9780903355445. Childlike parents in guus kuijers polleke series and. Eric ej1208855 the words of poems are who you were. While this binary has been strongly opposed in childrens literature. Signs of childness in childrens books by hollindale, peter. Buy signs of childness in childrens books by peter hollindale from waterstones today. Hollindale defines childrens literature and a child in his signs of childness in childrens books 2001 as follows. Signs of childness in children s books by peter hollindale 25mar1997 paperback. Childness is an unusual word, though it was not hollindales coinage. The articles in this special issue, any signs of childness. Day symposium, 05052017 department of education, university of york uk hg21, the eynns room. Project muse the transactional school of childrens. He advocates instead a study of childrens literature as a reading event 30 in a strategy that allows both the child and the text to have a place.
Being first an exercise in definition hollindale, 1997, p. Buy signs of childness in childrens books on amazon hollindale has set himself the task of defining the particular quality in childrens literature. In this book, peter hollindale suggests that children need to construct their own childhoods of the mind through encounters with imagined childhoods and contemplates the effect of this idea on adult readings of childrens books. Project muse the impossibility of childrens fiction. Childrens literature and the inner world, 2nd national. In hollindale s signs of childness in childrens books 1997, the idea that adulthood is continuous with childhood coexists with the idea tha far from being selfcontradictory, this reflects the complex reality represented within children s literature. Children need to create their own childhoods of the mind through encounters with imagined childhoods. Signs of childness in childrens books hollindale, p.
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