Product Description: From Puritan tracts and chapbooks to fairy tales and Victorian poems, from zombies and werewolves to ghosts and vampires, the gothic has become an important part of children's literature. This book explores how Gothicism is crucial in helping children progress through different stages of growth and development...read more

Product Description: With over 500 hand-picked titles, Healing Stories recommends carefully selected books essential for any adult looking to help children cope with their growing pains through reading. Annotated with helpful commentary, these titles cover everything from kids' everyday trials (losing baby teeth, starting school, having a bad day) to more emotionally stressful events (death of a pet, moving, illness), giving adults all the information they need to choose the right books...read more

Product Description: Rod N. Johnson is president of the Giro Group, a Minnesota based consulting firm that focuses on thought leadership issues relating to change management, strategic thinking, and technology. Myron J. Radio is president of The R Group; a consulting firm whose primary focus is to build high-powered teams and develop the people who lead them...read more

The author of more than sixty children's books that have drawn inspiration from mythology and folk culture discusses fantasy and folklore and their place and importance in children's literature (view table of contents)

Discusses how fairy tales became children's literature, and the occurrence of violence, cannibalism, and conflicts between parents and children in these stories