| Description |
xxi, 252 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and indexes. |
| Contents |
Triumph of the spirit of Cynthia Voigt's Homecoming, Dicey's song, and A solitary blue / Gloria Jameson -- Of good courage / Anne Devereaux Jordan -- Farley Mowat in the wilderness / Richard Rotert -- Bravery and philosophy in The adventures of frog and toad / Gareth B. Matthews -- Imaginative uses of secrecy in children's literature / John Daniel Stahl -- Secrets and healing magic in The secret garden / Gillian Adams -- Diary of a dream : triumph of the creative spirit of Elizabeth Yates / Janice M. Alberghene -- Survival and the imagination in depression-set fiction for children / Deanna Zitterkopf -- Survival of the spirit in Holocaust literature for and about children / Leonard M. Mendelsohn -- Triumph of the spirit in nonfiction for Black children / Jim Haskins -- Death and the human spirit in Jill Paton Walsh's A parcel of patterns / Mary Shaner -- Abused children and their triumphs in literature / Francelia Butler -- Andersen's heroes and heroines : relinquishing the reward / Celia Catlett Anderson -- Mythic consciousness and Hawaiian children's literature / Stephen Canham -- Childlike spirit of the avant-garde and children's literature / Jay Livernois -- Progression through contraries : the triumph of the spirit in the work of Maurice Sendak / Geraldine Deluca -- Marguerite Yourcenar and Michel Tournier : the arts of the heart / Margaret R. Higonnet -- Victorious monkey : favorite figure in Chinese literature for children / Guo Jian -- Instructive animals in Greek children's literature / Lia Hadzopoulou-Caravia -- Triumphant transformations of Pinocchio / John Cech -- Out of the depths to joy : spirit/soul in juvenile novels / M. Sarah Smedman -- Spirit of faith in Mormon children's literature / Jesse S. Crisler -- Puritan triumph : the joyful death books of Cotton Mather and James Janeway / Howard A. Myer -- John Foxe's Book of martyrs and its value as a book for children / Barbara Rosen -- "The whole of the story" : Frances Hodgson Burnett's A little princess / Elizabeth Lennox Keyser. |
| Subject |
Children's literature -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Butler, Francelia, 1913-1998.
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Rotert, Richard, 1948-
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| ISBN |
0208021108 alkaline paper |
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0208021116 paperback alkaline paper |
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