Poetry and childhood. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Morag Styles, Louise Joy and David Whitley.
• Other Names: Styles, Morag; Joy, Louise, 1979-; Whitley, David
• Contents: Introduction: Taking the Long View - the State of Children's Poetry Today - Morag Styles WHAT IS CHILDREN'S POETRY? Chapter 1: Theory, Texts and contexts: A Reading and Writing Memoir - Michael Rosen Chapter 2: Confronting the Snark: The Non-Theory of Children's Poetry - Peter Hunt Chapter 3: What Is Children's Poetry? Children's Views of Children's Poetry - Stephen Miles Chapter 4: Ted Hughes and the 'Old Age of Childhood' - Lissa Paul POETS AND CHILDHOOD Chapter 5: 'Childish Toys' for Boys with Beards: John Bunyan's A Book for Boys and Girls - Pat Pinsent Chapter 6: 'Those first affections': Wordswoth and Mournful Adolescence - Louise Joy Chapter 7: 'The Land of Play': Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses - Shaun Holland Chapter 8: A.A Milne's Poetic World of Childhood in When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six - Jean Webb Chapter 9: 'The Penny Fiddle' and Poetic Truth - Michael Joseph Chapter 10: 'A child, barefoot: alone': Innocence in Charles Causley's Poetry - Debbie Pullinger Chapter 11: 'Not Not Nursery Rhymes' and 'Not Not Lullabies': How Carol Ann Duffy and Porarinn Eldjarn Refurnish the Nursery - Olga Holownia TRADITIONS AND FORMS OF POETRY FOR CHILDREN Chapter 12: Humpty Dumpty and the Sense on an Unending - David Rudd Chapter 13: 'If it rhymes, it's funny': Theories of humour in Children's Poetry - Karen Coats Chapter 14: Children's Oral Poetry: Identity and Obscenity - C.W. Sullivan III Chapter 15: Poetry in Children's Annuals - Victor Watson Chapter 16: Wicked Thoughts: Fairy-tale Poetry for Children and Adults - Laura Tosi CHILDHOOD AND NATURE: CHANGING PERSPECTIVES Chapter 17: Anthropomorphism Dressed and Undressed in Beatrix Potter's Rhymes and Riddles - Lorraine Kerslake Chapter 18: Once upon a time in the realms of Eden: Children's Poetry in Brazil - Telma Franco Diniz Chapter 19: Animal Poems and Children's Rights in America, 1820-1890 - Angela Sorby Chapter 20: 'Imaginary gardens with real toads in them': Animals in Children's Poetry - David Whitley CHILDREN, TEACHERS, POETS, READERS Chapter 21: Poets in the Making: Ted Hughes, Poetry and Children - Peter Cook Chapter 22: Articulating the Auditory Imagination: When Children Talk About Poetry They Hear - John Gordon Chapter 23: The Affordances of Orality for young People's Experience of Poetry - Joy Alexander Chapter 24: Exploring Poetry Teachers: Teachers Who Read and Readers Who Teach Poetry - Teresa Cremin AFTERWORDS Chapter 25: Playing with words: Two children's Encounters with Poetry from Birth - Virginia Lowe Chapter 26: Writing Alongside at the Poetry and Childhood Conference - Philip Gross.
• Publisher Details: Stoke-on-Trent : Trentham Books Ltd
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Subjects: 821.0099282; Education -- Teaching Methods & Materials -- Library Skills; Children's & teenage literature studies; EDUCATION -- Elementary; Literary studies: poetry & poets; Children's poetry, English -- History and criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781858567402; 1858567408
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