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      • Trusted Partner
        Literature & Literary Studies
        September 2020

        Pasts at play

        Childhood encounters with history in British culture, 1750–1914

        by Rachel Bryant Davies, Barbara Gribling, Anna Barton

      • Trusted Partner
        Literature & Literary Studies
        September 2020

        Pasts at play

        Childhood encounters with history in British culture, 1750–1914

        by Rachel Bryant Davies, Barbara Gribling, Anna Barton

        INTRODUCTION Rachel Bryant Davies and Barbara Gribling Introduction: pasts at play SECTION ONE: BIBLICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL PASTS 1 Melanie Keene Noah's Ark-aeology and nineteenth-century children 2 Virginia Zimmerman Bringing Egypt home: children's encounters with ancient Egypt in the long nineteenth century SECTION TWO: CLASSICAL PASTS 3 Helen Lovatt 'a pleasanter way of learning': Victorian Argonauts as models of epic heroism 4 Rachel Bryant Davies 'Fun from the Classics': puzzling antiquity in The Boy's Own Paper SECTION THREE: MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN PASTS 5 Stephen Basdeo Robin Hood: picturing the outlaw in Victorian children's stories 6 Barbara Gribling Pastimes and play: child consumers of the 'Age of Chivalry' in toys and games 7 Rosemary Mitchell 'A bright example to the age in which they lived': Stuart women as role models for Victorian and Edwardian girls and young women SECTION FOUR: REVIVED PASTS 8 Ellie Reid Re-enacting local history in the Stepney Children's Pageant 9 Matthew Grenby Heritage and tourism: juvenile 'Tour Books' c. 1740-1840

      • Trusted Partner
        Literature & Literary Studies
        May 2023

        Pasts at play

        Childhood encounters with history in British culture, 1750–1914

        by Rachel Bryant Davies, Barbara Gribling

        This collection brings together scholars from disciplines including Children's Literature, Classics, and History to develop fresh approaches to children's culture and the uses of the past. It charts the significance of historical episodes and characters during the long nineteenth-century (1750-1914), a critical period in children's culture. Boys and girls across social classes often experienced different pasts simultaneously, for purposes of amusement and instruction. The book highlights an active and shifting market in history for children, and reveals how children were actively involved in consuming and repackaging the past: from playing with historically themed toys and games to performing in plays and pageants. Each chapter reconstructs encounters across different media, uncovering the cultural work done by particular pasts and exposing the key role of playfulness in the British historical imagination.

      • Trusted Partner
        Literature & Literary Studies
        September 2020

        Pasts at play

        Childhood encounters with history in British culture, 1750–1914

        by Rachel Bryant Davies, Barbara Gribling, Anna Barton

        This collection brings together scholars from disciplines including Children's Literature, Classics, and History to develop fresh approaches to children's culture and the uses of the past. It charts the significance of historical episodes and characters during the long nineteenth-century (1750-1914), a critical period in children's culture. Boys and girls across social classes often experienced different pasts simultaneously, for purposes of amusement and instruction. The book highlights an active and shifting market in history for children, and reveals how children were actively involved in consuming and repackaging the past: from playing with historically themed toys and games to performing in plays and pageants. Each chapter reconstructs encounters across different media, uncovering the cultural work done by particular pasts and exposing the key role of playfulness in the British historical imagination.

      • Teaching, Language & Reference
        February 2015

        Sweet Rosa

        by Kingsley Osei, David Asimeng

        Sweet Rosa is a picture book which details the brave stance of a young African-American woman named Rosa Parks who refused to give up her seat to a white person on bus in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama. Ms. Parks' actions led to the infamous Montgomery bus boycott and helped establish the civil rights movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  The bold and courageous act of Ms. Parks, Dr. King and thousands of boycotters and civil rights advocates eventually pushed the Supreme Court to declare segregation on buses unconstitutional, helping to put racial discrimination to rest. This book takes young readers on an historic, illustrious journey through this staple event and how it has forever shaped the racial outlook of equality for adults and children alike in today's society.

      • Children's literature studies: general
        October 2020

        Metamorphoses of the Fairy Tale

        by Antonella Cagnolati, Angela Articoni

        Survived for millennia, handed down and told from generation to generation, beyond the space and time in which they arose, fairy tales have traveled and crossed borders wherever there were communities prepared to listen to them and empathically accept their deepest meaning. Through fantastic form these narratives have distilled and conveyed an archaic wisdom – result of the experiences practiced by humanity in its complex struggle to survive: men and women of all times have found answers to their doubts, questions and problems that for centuries gripped their destinies and to which it was necessary to find creative and adventurous solutions, showing the wide palette of human conditions and events.

      • Animal stories (Children's/YA)

        The Turtle's Shell

        Mama's Tales of Kanji

        by Vincent Eke

        The Turtle's Shell tells the story of Tobi, a smart turtle who thinks he can get away with deceiving his friends. He ends up learning a few shell cracking lessons. This friendly easy-to-read book shows children how our everyday actions and decisions always consequences. This story also draws attention to the nuggets of wisdom embedded in African cultural stories which can be emulated by any child whatever their racial background.

      • Children's & young adult poetry, anthologies, annuals

        Mason's Magic Adventures

        by Warren Brown

        Adventurous ten year old Mason goes on his Magical adventures with his family and friends. You can join Mason at the Magic Circus, in the Jungle, along the Magic Sea in China and in the Magical Universe. In this book there are four exciting adventures, along with the playbook of Games for children to play with their friends. Ten year old Mason visits the Magic Circus. Every year the Magic Circus would appear on an island where Mason's Aunt and Uncle stayed. The Circus Tents would appear in the morning and disappear after a week. Forests were places of great adventure and fun for ten year old Mason. He just loved to go with his Father who was an Explorer into the forests of Africa and the Amazon. Every year ten year old Mason would go to stay with his Aunt, Uncle and cousins who lived beside the Magic Sea in China. Every year Mason goes on a vacation with his family into Space. Mason and his family arrived at the Space Station on Mars Welcome to Mason’s Playbook with Games for children from 5 to 11 years. There is a good collection of games from adventures with an Explorer, to Jungle adventures with Tarzan and Phantom, to Cowboy adventures with the Wild West Cowboys, to Space adventures with Outer space Explorers and Superhero adventures.

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