Children's portraits

Abstract This book provides a holistic and diachronic approach to investigating the lives and social identities of children throughout the ninth to fourth centuries ...

Abstract This book explores the protection of children in our increasingly tumultuous world. It examines ways to effectively shield children from harm and vulnerabil...

Chapter 7, “Child-Affirming Artifacts,” uses ideas from Vygotskian theory to describe the child-affirming artifacts that populated children’s homes. Some artifacts were widely dist...

Chapter 3 explores the methods by which composers have depicted themselves and their compositional styles in musical self-portraits. It views musical self-portraits in relation to ...

Abstract What do the portraits of a great poet tell us about his life, his image of himself, and the ideas of him held by his friends and his public? Portraits of...

Global Children's Literature in the College Classroom explores the importance of children's literature as a pedagogical resource in any college course. It can be used to introduce ...

Abstract Today, the wealthiest country in the world, the United States, has more children living in poverty than any other industrialized nation. Furthermore, the...

In the growing field of children's literature theory in criticism, this volume presents critical international perspectives on changes and innovation in this discipline. The recent...