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This is an original, scholarly yet accessible contribution to the field of children's fiction. It focuses on gender in relation to children's fiction and the role that language plays in this relationship. Girls' and boys' reading itself is looked at, as well as the books that they encounter - including the Harry Potter series, Louis Sachar's prizewinning Holes , fairy tales and school reading schemes. The book treats fiction as fiction, using as its guiding principles the multimodality of much children's fiction; that fiction is almost always dialogic; that the feminist movement has had consid

Children's stories --- Discourse analysis, Literary. --- Sex role in literature. --- Gender identity in literature. --- Language and sex. --- Sex and language --- Sex --- Literary discourse analysis --- Rhetoric --- Literary style --- History and criticism. --- Children's literature. Juvenile literature --- Sociology of literature --- taalgebruik --- gender --- jeugdliteratuur

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Sociology of literature --- rolpatronen --- gender --- jeugdliteratuur --- leesopvoeding --- Gender --- Identity --- Children's literature --- Reading habits --- Girls --- Education --- Book --- Sex differences --- Communication --- Canada

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Drawing on more than 20 years of experience, Sullivan shows how to reinvigorate the sense of excitement that boys felt when they first heard a picture book being read aloud.

Boys --- Teenage boys --- Reading --- Reading promotion --- Sex differences in education --- Children's libraries --- Young adults' libraries --- School libraries --- Language arts --- Elocution --- Books and reading --- Sex differences --- Activity programs --- Study and teaching --- Information user --- bibliotheekgebruik --- allochtone jongeren --- jeugd --- leesgedrag --- differentiële opvoeding --- United States --- United States of America --- Reading habits --- Education --- Book

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Knowledge about carnality and its limits provides the agenda for much of the fiction written for adolescent readers today, yet there exists little critical engagement with the ways in which it has been represented in the young adult novel in either discursive, ideological, or rhetorical forms. Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature is a pioneering study that addresses these methodological and contextual gaps. Focusing on texts produced since the late-1980s, and drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives, Kathryn James shows how representations of deat

Thematology --- adolescenten --- seksualiteit --- dood --- gender --- jeugdliteratuur --- Young adult literature, American --- Death in literature. --- Sex role in literature. --- Sex in literature. --- Teenagers --- Littérature pour jeunes adultes américaine --- Mort dans la littérature --- Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature --- Sexualité dans la littérature --- Adolescents --- History and criticism. --- Books and reading. --- Histoire et critique --- Livres et lecture --- Children's literature. Juvenile literature

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Thematology --- Sociology of literature --- gender --- jeugdliteratuur --- Conduct of life in literature. --- Deutsch --- Deutsch. --- Duits. --- Families in literature. --- Frauenliteratur. --- Frauenroman --- Frauenroman. --- German fiction --- German fiction. --- Identitätsfindung. --- Meisjesboeken. --- Mädchenliteratur --- Mädchenliteratur. --- Sex in literature. --- Weibliche Heranwachsende (Motiv). --- Weibliche Heranwachsende --- Young women in literature. --- Young women --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- Women authors. --- Books and reading. --- 1800-1899. --- Geschichte 1800-1914. --- Geschichte 1863-1935.