Author: Rebecca L. Thomas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313080224
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 691
Book Description
A comprehensive guide to multicultural literature for children, this valuable resource features more than 1,600 titles—including fiction, folktales, poetry, and song books—that focus on diverse cultural groups. The selected titles, pubished between the 1970s and 1990s are suitable for use with preschoolers through sixth graders and are likely to be found on the shelves of school and public libraries. Topics are timely, with an emphasis on books that reflect the needs and interests of today's children. Each detailed entry includes bibliographic information. Use level is also included, as are cultural designation, subjects, and a summary. The invaluable Subject Access section incorporates use level culture information.
Connecting Cultures
Author: Rebecca L. Thomas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313080224
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 691
Book Description
A comprehensive guide to multicultural literature for children, this valuable resource features more than 1,600 titles—including fiction, folktales, poetry, and song books—that focus on diverse cultural groups. The selected titles, pubished between the 1970s and 1990s are suitable for use with preschoolers through sixth graders and are likely to be found on the shelves of school and public libraries. Topics are timely, with an emphasis on books that reflect the needs and interests of today's children. Each detailed entry includes bibliographic information. Use level is also included, as are cultural designation, subjects, and a summary. The invaluable Subject Access section incorporates use level culture information.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313080224
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 691
Book Description
A comprehensive guide to multicultural literature for children, this valuable resource features more than 1,600 titles—including fiction, folktales, poetry, and song books—that focus on diverse cultural groups. The selected titles, pubished between the 1970s and 1990s are suitable for use with preschoolers through sixth graders and are likely to be found on the shelves of school and public libraries. Topics are timely, with an emphasis on books that reflect the needs and interests of today's children. Each detailed entry includes bibliographic information. Use level is also included, as are cultural designation, subjects, and a summary. The invaluable Subject Access section incorporates use level culture information.
Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English
Author: Eugene Benson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134468474
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 2597
Book Description
Post-Colonial Literatures in English, together with English Literature and American Literature, form one of the three major groupings of literature in English, and, as such, are widely studied around the world. Their significance derives from the richness and variety of experience which they reflect. In three volumes, this Encyclopedia documents the history and development of this body of work and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134468474
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 2597
Book Description
Post-Colonial Literatures in English, together with English Literature and American Literature, form one of the three major groupings of literature in English, and, as such, are widely studied around the world. Their significance derives from the richness and variety of experience which they reflect. In three volumes, this Encyclopedia documents the history and development of this body of work and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.
ABBWA Journal
The Junior Bookshelf
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Introducing Children to Folk Tales
Author: Beth Weir
Publisher: Bill Harp Teachers Library
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher: Bill Harp Teachers Library
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Joint Acquisitions List of Africana
World Mythology
Author: Thomas J. Sienkewicz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
A compact reference source that offers general readers bibliographic access to significant English-language translations, retellings, and summaries of myths from cultures around the world. While Greek, Roman, Norse, and Arthurian myths are the best known, this bibliography also surveys the less familiar materials containing African, Asian, Oceanian, and American myths. This easy-to-use reference arranges entries geographically and also includes author, illustrator/photographer, and subject indexes.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
A compact reference source that offers general readers bibliographic access to significant English-language translations, retellings, and summaries of myths from cultures around the world. While Greek, Roman, Norse, and Arthurian myths are the best known, this bibliography also surveys the less familiar materials containing African, Asian, Oceanian, and American myths. This easy-to-use reference arranges entries geographically and also includes author, illustrator/photographer, and subject indexes.
The Tale of the Spiteful Spirits
Author: Carole Tate
Publisher: Peter Bedrick Books
ISBN: 9780872264458
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Because a young man will not pass on the stories he is told by an old servant, the spirits of the stories plan a spiteful revenge for the young man on his wedding day.
Publisher: Peter Bedrick Books
ISBN: 9780872264458
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Because a young man will not pass on the stories he is told by an old servant, the spirits of the stories plan a spiteful revenge for the young man on his wedding day.
Author: Martha T. Mooney
Publisher: H. W. Wilson
ISBN: 9780824209070
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
- Excerpts from and citations to reviews of more than 8,000 books each year, from 109 publications. - Electronic version with expanded coverage, and retrospective version available, see p. 5 and p. 31. - Pricing: Service Basis-Books.
Publisher: H. W. Wilson
ISBN: 9780824209070
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
- Excerpts from and citations to reviews of more than 8,000 books each year, from 109 publications. - Electronic version with expanded coverage, and retrospective version available, see p. 5 and p. 31. - Pricing: Service Basis-Books.