Product Description: Molly and Adam Barnett have had more than enough trouble lately. First, they discovered that their dearly departed grandfather wasn’t quite as “departed” as a dead guy should be. Then, they had to save their dad from a dreaded family curse...read more

What exactly is a children’s book? How is children’s literature defined as a genre? A leading scholar presents close readings of six classic stories to answer these questions and offer a clear definition of children’s writing as a distinct literary form. Perry Nodelman begins by considering the plots, themes, and structures of six works: "The Purple Jar," Alice in Wonderland, Dr. Doolittle, Henry Huggins, The Snowy Day, and Plain City―all written for young people of varying ages in different times and places―to identify shared characteristics. He points out markers in each work that allow the adult reader to understand it as a children’s story, shedding light on ingrained adult assumptions and revealing the ways in which adult knowledge and experience remain hidden in apparently simple and innocent texts.Nodelman then engages a wide range of views of children's literature from authors, literary critics, cultural theorists, and specialists in education and information sciences. Through this informed dialogue, Nodelman develops a comprehensive theory of children's literature, exploring its commonalities and shared themes. The Hidden Adult is a focused and sophisticated analysis of children’s literature and a major contribution to the theory and criticism of the genre.

Product Description: Molly and Adam aren’t thrilled about their dad’s upcoming birthday. Whether it’s a family curse or just bad luck, the Barnett males have a distressing tendency to drop dead the day before they turn 35. Their mom has a plan, though: a trip to the family’s lakeside cottage...read more

Overviews the issue of children's literature by discussing literary techniques and characteristics of the genre, examining the changing historical context of childhood, and evaluating specific types of literature (view table of contents)

Product Description: Making rules. As if that's something Bradley Gold wants to get involved in. If it weren't for his buddy, Coll, who roped him into adding his "student input" to Roblin High's new code of conduct, there's no way Brad would have been within ten miles of the parents' committee meeting that turns him into an unwilling activist...read more

Traveling without their powers, Coren and Lenora find themselves in a model of a shopping center during a science-fiction convention and must find a way out in order to get back home in time for their pending wedding.

Lenora and Coren journey to Coren's home for their wedding, but it seems that the Andillans' power to live in their minds is not working, and Lenora believes the Skwoes are responsible for the disruption of the sacred Balance.

When Johnny Nesbit wakes up in a pink bedroom that is inside a glass bottle, he soon realizes that he is battling the Strangers, the fairies that had stolen his baby sister Cheryl a year earlier.

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When his baby sister is stolen by Fairies and replaced with a changeling, John Nesbit travels into the world of the Strangers in order to rescue her and confronts such unusual creatures as human-headed flying dogs and a hollow man.

Product Description: Focuses on illustration and contains essays on why and how books were chosen, a list of all books in the three volumes, and predictions for future classics. Picture books covered include titles by Edward Ardizzone, L. Leslie Brooke, Virginia Lee Burton, Randolph Caldecott, Walter Crane, Wanda GD'ag, Kate Greenaway, Ezra Jack Keats, Robert Lawson, Leo Lionni, Robert McCloskey, Beatrix Potter, McCloskey Rackham, Maurice Sendak, and Dr...read more

Product Description: Touchstones is a three-volume series containing critical essays about classic works of children's literature.Volume One devotes itself to children's novels, covering titles by Louisia May Alcott, Lloyd Alexander Frances Hodgson Burnett, Lewis Carroll, Carlo Collodi, Eleanor Estes, Louis Fitzhugh, Esther Forbes, Kenneth Grahame, Irene Hunt, Rudyard Kipling, Madeline L'Engle, C...read more