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Mixed magic
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ISBN: 9789027201621 9789027265456 9027265453 9027201625 Year: 2017 Publisher: Amsterdam Philadelphia


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Language, gender and children's fiction
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ISBN: 128291264X 9786612912641 1441182985 9781441182982 9781282912649 9780826446138 0826446132 1441138188 Year: 2010 Publisher: London New York Continuum

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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

Language and control in children's literature
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ISBN: 0415086256 0415086248 1134884354 0203419758 0585447209 1280321431 9780585447209 9780203419755 9780415086240 9780415086257 9786610321438 6610321434 9781280321436 1134884346 Year: 1996 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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In this important and timely study Murray Knowles and Kirstin Malmjkaer examine the work of some of our most popular children's writers, from this and the last century, in order to expose the persuasive power of literature.

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