In twenty-eight essays, Frey and Griffith, members of the English faculty at the University of Washington, examine many of the traditional and new children's classics. The authors explore the relationship between the writer's lives and the stories they tell. Purposes and literary techniques are also discussed. Each essay provides the reader with the authors' answers to the question: What special qualities make this book a classic? Fairy and folk tales and fantasy; works by Dickens, Craig, Collodi, Alcott, Twain, Kipling, Potter, Wilder; and poetry of Lear and Stevenson are included. Teachers of children's literature will find these essays useful for helping students understand the characteristics of the classic literature of childhood. The book is recommended for college and university libraries and for large and medium-sized public library collections. The Journal of Youth Services in Libraries
Seeking to restore our appreciation for the classics of children's literature, the authors of this book offer fresh and lively interpretations of twenty-eight of the most beloved works in the Western tradition. Through individual essays on representative and well-known rhymes, tales, domestic and picaresque novels, romances, talking-animal stories, and semi-autobiographical narratives, the authors help us to understand why such works continue to appeal to both children and adults. Treating each work as a literary production deserving of attention in its own right, the authors explore its emotional significance and enduring themes. They discuss the writer's purposes and literary techniques and investigate the relationship of specific literary works to the lives of their creators. Bibliographic information on texts, collections, and critical literature is supplied.

The Literary Heritage of Childhood: An Appraisal of Children's Classics in the Western Tradition (Contributions to the Study of World Literature)

Griffith, John

Frey, Charles

Teen & Young Adult

Praeger

A Journal Of The Life, Travels And Labors In The Work Of The Ministry (1779)

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

The voice of today's society - the media - (unintentionally) works against happiness. There is a constant, streaming bombardment of "Bad News." Young girls are encouraged to find power in sexuality, suffering, and entitlement. Addictive behavior is sensationalized and glamorized. Many in the media promote lying, deception, and revenge as profitable. There are even messages teaching how to get away with murder.
Where are the messages regarding the incredible power of choice, personal responsibility, and accountability? Why isn't every growing girl told that she is responsible for her happiness?
The impact a father has on his daughter - especially during these modern times - is both profound and immense. Fathers can't do much about the focus of the media. Smut sells. But, it is not the media's duty to provide daughters with the tools necessary for a happy life.
In this one-of-a-kind, educational, witty, and humorous "fun guide," Griffith reveals the secrets of happiness that every dad should teach his daughter so that she can grow into the amazing, powerful, world-changing woman she was meant to become.
Recognizing that a father's impact upon his daughter is achieved through healthy and personal interactions, Griffith's guidance is written in a format intended to be shared between father and daughter. Using the powerful tools of metaphoric story-telling, introspective letters, and creative activities, Griffith shares the seven keys to happiness that are critical to staving off the effect of the foes of happiness that permeate society today.
With topics such as art, history, physics, spirituality, philosophy, earth science, unexplainable phenomena, pop-culture, science fiction, and more, Griffith teaches both father and daughter the keys to remaining happy throughout life by embracing considered thought, emotion, and imagination.

A Dad's Fun Guide to Raising Happy Daughters: Imagination Activities Against  Body-Snatching Zombie Naysayers  and Other Foes of Happiness

Self-Help

Happiness

John Griffith, LLC

Charlotte's Web (Masterwork Studies Series)

A classic from the time of its first printing, Charlottes Web remains an integral part of the canon of childrens literature today. This reference reflects upon the innocence E. B. Whites story represents and explores why it was the ideal story for its time: an era when America reveled in the end of the last of the great wars, but never forgot the Great Depression. Likewise, Korea was a discomforting but distant place for the people of the 1950s, as distant as was the chopping block to Wilbur. Opening with a concise yet thorough chronology of E. B. Whites life, Griffith successfully proceeds to show the reader how E. B. Whites lifestyle, notably Whites own experience as a Maine farmer, is reflected in Charlottes Web.

History & Criticism

Twayne Publishers

Series Editor: Robert Lecker, McGill University.Written in an easy-to-read, accessible style by teachers with years of classroom experience, MASTERWORK STUDIES are guides to the literary works most frequently studied in high school. Presenting ideas that spark imaginations, these books help students to gain background knowledge on great literature useful for papers and exams. The goal of each study is to encourage creative thinking by presenting engaging information about each work and its author. This approach allows students to arrive at sound analyses of their own, based on in-depth studies of popular literature. Each volume: illuminates themes and concepts of a classic text; uses clear, conversational language; is an accessible, manageable length from 140 to 170 pages; includes a chronology of the authors life and era; provides an overview of the historical context; offers a summary of its critical reception; and lists primary and secondary sources and index.

Traces the history of Afghanistan, describes the culture, characteristics, and religion of the Afghan people, and speculates on the Russian invasion

Afghanistan: Key To A Continent

History

Griffiths, John C.

Asia

Westview Press

The Case for academic freedom and democracy

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Council for Academic Freedom and Democracy

Some Brief Remarks Upon Sundry Important Subjects, Necessary To Be Understood And Attended To By All Professing The Christian Religion (1765)

Literary

Kessinger Publishing

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++British LibraryT105709London : printed and sold by James Phillips, 1779. [2],iv,427,[1]p. ; 8°

A journal of the life, travels, and labours in the work of the ministry, of John Griffith.

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