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- Creator
- guest editor, Judith Plotz ; editors, Louisa Smith, Jack Zipes
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002
- Physical Details
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- pages [287]-407 : illustrations ; 23 cm
- OCLC
- ocm51100832
- Cover title.
- "September 2002."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents. Editor's introduction / Judith Plotz -- Child crusaders: the literature of global childhood / Lisa Hermine Makman -- "A drean of complete idleness": depiction of labor in children's fiction / Maria Nikolajeva -- An introduction to "Staging childhood" (Patricia Pace, 1952-2000) / Richard Flynn -- Staging childhood: Lewis Hine's photographs of child labor / Patricia Pace -- Little workers of the kindergarten / Marilynn Strasser Olson -- Nice girls don't (but want to): work ethic conflicts and conundrums in Mrs. Molesworth's books for girls / Mary Sebag-Montefiore -- Book reviews. Lois Keith, Take up thy bed and walk: death, disability and cure in classic fiction for girls / Laureen Tedesco -- Susan Ang, The widening world of children's literature / George Bodmer -- Susan Lehr, ed., Beauty, brains, and brawn: the construction of gender in children's literature / Sharon M. Scapple -- Walter Hogan, The agony and the eggplant: Daniel Pinkwater's heroic struggles in the name of YA literature / Jan Susina
Subjects
- Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940.
- Molesworth, Mrs., 1839-1921.
- Child labor -- Juvenile literature -- History and criticism.
- Work -- Juvenile literature -- History and criticism.
- Human rights -- Juvenile literature.
- Children's rights -- Juvenile literature.
- Kindergarten -- History.
- Women -- Employment -- Juvenile literature.