This volume examines a variety of utopian writing for children from the eighteenth century to the present day, defining and exploring this new genre in the field of children's literature. The original essays discuss thematic conventions and present detailed case studies of individual works. All address the pedagogical implications of work that challenges children to grapple with questions of perfect or wildly imperfect social organizations and their own autonomy. Includes interviews with creative writers and the first bibliography of utopian fiction for children.
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Hintz and Ostry make an important contribution to the study of children's literature. Their excellent introductory survey is followed by ten critical essays that discuss the creation of imaginary worlds, their social organization, and the routes fictional characters must take to reach them.
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Being the first annotated bibliography of utopian and dystopian writing for children and young adults is reason enough for this book to have a place on a shelf. Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through researchers and faculty.
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Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children will have a permanent place in my bookshelf. Very well edited, its essays are complimentary, wide ranging, thought provoking, and all in all, a very fine contribution to studies of children's fiction generally, and to studies of childrens' fantasy and science fiction more specifically.
–Farah Mendlesohn, Middlesex University, Science Fiction Studies, 2003
–Choice
Being the first annotated bibliography of utopian and dystopian writing for children and young adults is reason enough for this book to have a place on a shelf. Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through researchers and faculty.
–Choice
Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children will have a permanent place in my bookshelf. Very well edited, its essays are complimentary, wide ranging, thought provoking, and all in all, a very fine contribution to studies of children's fiction generally, and to studies of childrens' fantasy and science fiction more specifically.
–Farah Mendlesohn, Middlesex University, Science Fiction Studies, 2003
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- Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World by The New York Public Library on 11 pages
- The Time Machine / The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells on 9 pages
- The Time Machine by H. G. Wells on 9 pages
- The Time Machine by H G Wells on 9 pages
- His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman on 8 pages
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- Reading Harry Potter: Critical Essays (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture) by Giselle Liza Anatol in Back Matter
- Voracious Children: Who Eats Whom in Children's Literature (Children's Literature and Culture) by Carolyn Daniel in Index
- Twice-Told Children's Tales: The Influence of Childhood Reading on Writers for Adults (Children's Literature and Culture) by Betty Greenway in Back Matter
- A Past Without Shadow (Children's Literature and Culture) by Zohar Shavit in Front Matter
- Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre: Fiction for Children and Adults (Children's Literature and Culture) by Mike Cadden in Front Matter
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