Author: Robinson CrusoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The Robinson Crusoe Picture Book Containing Robinson Crusoe. How Cock Sparrow Kept His Christmas. Queer Characters. Aesop's Fables, Etc
Author: Robinson CrusoeOld Friends and New Faces: Comprising Robinson Crusoe, Queer Characters, Aesop's Fables, Cock Sparrow. With ... Illustrations
Author: FriendsEmpire Islands
Author: Rebecca Weaver-HightowerPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816648634
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Through a detailed unpacking of the castaway genre’s appeal in English literature, Empire Islands forwards our understanding of the sociopsychology of British Empire. Rebecca Weaver-Hightower argues convincingly that by helping generations of readers to make sense of—and perhaps feel better about—imperial aggression, the castaway story in effect enabled the expansion and maintenance of European empire. Empire Islands asks why so many colonial authors chose islands as the setting for their stories of imperial adventure and why so many postcolonial writers “write back” to those island castaway narratives. Drawing on insightful readings of works from Thomas More’s Utopia to Caribbean novels like George Lamming’s Water with Berries, from canonical works such as Robinson Crusoe and The Tempest to the lesser-known A Narrative of the Life and Astonishing Adventures of John Daniel by Ralph Morris, Weaver-Hightower examines themes of cannibalism, piracy, monstrosity, imperial aggression, and the concept of going native. Ending with analysis of contemporary film and the role of the United States in global neoimperialism, Weaver-Hightower exposes how island narratives continue not only to describe but to justify colonialism. Rebecca Weaver-Hightower is assistant professor of English and postcolonial studies at the University of North Dakota.
The Robinson Crusoe picture book; containing Robinson Crusoe [adapted from D. Defoe] , How Cock Sparrow kept his Christmas, Queer characters, Æsop's fables
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Author: Daniel DefoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
The Robinson Crusoe Picture Book
Author: Robinson Crusoe Picture Book
Author: Formation of Character
Author: Charlotte MasonPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1627931155
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Formation of Character is the fifth volume of Charlotte Mason's Homeschooling series. The chapters stand alone and are valuable to parents of children of all ages. Part I includes case studies of children (and adults) who cured themselves of bad habits. Part II is a series of reflections on subjects including both schooling and vacations (or "stay-cations" as we now call them). Part III covers various aspects of home schooling, with a special section detailing the things that Charlotte Mason thought were important to teach to girls in particular. Part IV consists of examples of how education affected outcome of character in famous writers of her day. Charlotte Mason was a late nineteenth-century British educator whose ideas were far ahead of her time. She believed that children are born persons worthy of respect, rather than blank slates, and that it was better to feed their growing minds with living literature and vital ideas and knowledge, rather than dry facts and knowledge filtered and pre-digested by the teacher. Her method of education, still used by some private schools and many homeschooling families, is gentle and flexible, especially with younger children, and includes first-hand exposure to great and noble ideas through books in each school subject, conveying wonder and arousing curiosity, and through reflection upon great art, music, and poetry; nature observation as the primary means of early science teaching; use of manipulatives and real-life application to understand mathematical concepts and learning to reason, rather than rote memorization and working endless sums; and an emphasis on character and on cultivating and maintaining good personal habits. Schooling is teacher-directed, not child-led, but school time should be short enough to allow students free time to play and to pursue their own worthy interests such as handicrafts. Traditional Charlotte Mason schooling is firmly based on Christianity, although the method is also used successfully by s
Select Fables
Author: John Trotter BrockettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fables
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Gnat and the Bull
Author: AesopPublisher:
ISBN: 9781367759329
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This Aesop's Fable has been re-imagined as part of a social venture project to raise money for literacy charities. DERT works with emerging designers to create unique, customized books. Each DERT book features the design and conceptual artwork created by graphic design students.Aesop's Fables are a collection of stories credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece from 620 - 560 BC. A keen observer of both animals and people, Aesop used the qualities and natural tendencies of animals to focus on human traits and wisdom within his stories. Each fable has an accompanying moral to be learned from the tale. Far from child-like moral lessons one would expect, these fables are also seen as clever jokes and witty one-liners that result in bite size pieces of wisdom for daily life.
Forgotten Books of the American Nursery
Author: Rosalie Vrylina HalseyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
A history of books for children from colonial times to the 1850's.