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List Of Children's Literature Authors
These writers are notable authors of children's literature with some of their most famous works. __NOTOC__ A *Verna Aardema (1911–2001) – ''Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears'' *Rafael Ábalos (born 1956) – ''Grimpow'' * Jacob Abbott (1803–1879) – ''Rollo'' series, ''Cousin Lucy's Conversations'', ''Bruno'' *Tony Abbott (born 1952) – '' The Secrets of Droon'', '' Danger Guys'' *Deborah Abela (born 1966) – ''Max Remy Superspy'', ''Grimsdon'' * Joan Abelove (born 1945) – ''Go and Come Back'' * Chris van Abkoude (1880–1960) – '' Pietje Bell'' series, ''Little Crumb'' *Socorro Acioli (born 1975) – ''The Ghost Dancer'' *Richard Adams (1920–2016) – ''Watership Down'' * Jean Adamson (born 1928) – '' Topsy and Tim'' * C. S. Adler (born 1932) – ''Magic of the Glits'', ''Ghost Brother'' * David A. Adler (born 1947) – ''Cam Jansen'' series, ''The Babe and I'' *Aesop (6th century BCE) – ''Fables'' *Joan Aiken (1924–2004) – '' The Wolves of Willoughby ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Children's Literature
Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader. Children's literature can be traced to traditional stories like fairy tales, that have only been identified as children's literature in the eighteenth century, and songs, part of a wider oral tradition, that adults shared with children before publishing existed. The development of early children's literature, before printing was invented, is difficult to trace. Even after printing became widespread, many classic "children's" tales were originally created for adults and later adapted for a younger audience. Since the fifteenth century much literature has been aimed specifically at children, often with a moral or religious message. Children's literature has been shaped by religious sources, like Puritan traditions, or by more philosophical and scientif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Adamson
Jean Adamson, (born 29 February 1928) is a British writer and illustrator of children's books. She is best known for the ''Topsy and Tim'' books, the first of which was published in 1960 and which were relaunched in 2003. Life and career Adamson was born in Peckham, in southeast London. She attended grammar school until she was 16 before studying illustration at Goldsmiths College at the University of London. After graduating, she began teaching illustration and design at the University. Adamson met her future husband and writing partner, Gareth Adamson, while studying at university. The couple married in 1957 and moved to Newcastle, where they began to work on children's books together. The Adamsons moved to The Old Farmhouse, Padney, in Cambridgeshire in 1968. After 25 years of marriage, Gareth died of a brain tumour in February 1982 and Jean moved to Stretham, also in Cambridgeshire. In September 2009, Adamson was robbed by a youth while walking in Stretham. She was le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwame Alexander
Kwame Alexander (born August 21, 1968) is an American writer of poetry and children's fiction. His verse novel ''The Crossover'' won the 2015 Newbery Medal and was selected as an Honor book for the Coretta Scott King Award. Personal life and education Alexander was born in Manhattan, New York, and grew up in Chesapeake, Virginia. His father was a scholar and book publisher and his mother was an educator. His given name, Kwame, comes from Ghana and means "born on a Saturday," although Alexander was born on a Wednesday. Alexander attended Virginia Tech, where he took a writing class with Nikki Giovanni. Books Alexander's picture book ''Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band'', was selected for the 2014 "Michigan Reads! One State, One Children's Book" program. He won a 2020 Newbery Honor for his illustrated poem '' The Undefeated''. Alexander runs the Bookinaday program to introduce children to writing and publishing. He is a regular contributor to National Public Radio's ''Morni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Brownie And The Princess
''The Brownie and the Princess: And Other Stories'' () is a book of ten children's stories by the American author, Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). The stories were published in various children's magazines during her lifetime. They were also previously published with two other stories in the collection ''A Round Dozen'' by Viking Press Viking Press (formally Viking Penguin, also listed as Viking Books) is an American publishing company owned by Penguin Random House. It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1925, by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim and then acquir ... in 1963. at WorldCat Synopsis ''The Brownie and the Princess'', the first of the stories, is about a young farmer girl, named Betty, who lives with her father. Since her mother has died, and, since she has no friends, she learns to talk ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Women
''Little Women'' is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). Alcott wrote the book, originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869, at the request of her publisher. The story follows the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—and details their passage from childhood to womanhood. Loosely based on the lives of the author and her three sisters, it is classified as an autobiographical or semi-autobiographical novel. ''Little Women'' was an immediate commercial and critical success, with readers eager for more about the characters. Alcott quickly completed a second volume (titled ''Good Wives'' in the United Kingdom, though the name originated with the publisher and not Alcott). It was also met with success. The two volumes were issued in 1880 as a single novel titled ''Little Women''. Alcott subsequently wrote two sequels to her popular work, both also featuring the March sisters: '' Little Men'' (1871) and '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott (; November 29, 1832March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the author of the novel '' Little Women'' (1868) and its sequels '' Little Men'' (1871) and '' Jo's Boys'' (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Alcott's family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used pen names such as A. M. Barnard, under which she wrote lurid short stories and sensation novels for adults that focused on passion and revenge. Published in 1868, '' Little Women'' is set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Haunting Of Cassie Palmer
''The Haunting of Cassie Palmer'' is a British television drama for children produced in 1981 by TVS (Television South) for the ITV network and first broadcast on 26 February 1982. The series was based on a novel by Vivien Alcock. In the United States, it was aired on Nickelodeon as part of the series '' The Third Eye' The show was part of the launch programming for TVS which started broadcasting on 1 January 1982. Nickelodeon had also recently launched when it added ''The Third Eye'' series to its live-action line up. ''The Third Eye'' was a sci-fi/supernatural anthology that included '' Into the Labyrinth (TV series), Into the Labyrinth'', ''The Haunting of Cassie Palmer'', ''Children of the Stones'' and ''Under the Mountain''. Later ''The Witches and the Grinnygog'' was added. Plot This is a story of 13-year-old Cassie Palmer who lives with her mother, older brother, and sister. Cassie's mother is an eccentric "psychic" (medium). After some of her clients are incensed to dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivien Alcock
Vivien Alcock (23 September 1924 – 11 October 2003) was an English writer of children's books. Life and career Alcock was born in Worthing, now in West Sussex, England, and her family moved to Devizes in Wiltshire when she was ten years old. She was the youngest of three sisters who were devoted to reading, drawing, and storytelling. Alcock studied at Oxford University's Ruskin School of Drawing until 1942, when she left the program to join the women's branch of the British Army (Auxiliary Territorial Service). Alcock and met while she was driving ambulances in Belgium. They married and adopted a daughter, named Jane after [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmad Akbarpour
Ahmad Akbarpour ( fa, احمد اکبرپور) ''Ahmad Akbarpūr'' , born July 31, 1970, in Chah Varz, Lamerd, Fars Province, is a novelist and author of short stories and children's books. Biography Ahmad Akbarpour was born on 31 July 1970 in Chah Varz. He got his BA in psychology from Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran. Ahmad Akbarpour has started his literary career at the age of 24 by composing poetry. He published his first and only collection of poetry, ''People of the Thursday Evening'', in 1993. A student of Reza Barahani and Houshang Golshiri, he soon started writing fiction for adolescents, adopting a postmodern style of writing. Books ''That Night’s Train'', published in 1999, received the Book of the Year award from Iran's Ministry of Culture. The novel narrates the story of a little girl who recently lost her mother and meets with a teacher during a train trip. This short novel was adapted as a TV film by Hamid Reza Hafezi and later as a movie by Hamid Reza ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase
''The Wolves of Willoughby Chase'' is a children's novel by Joan Aiken, first published in 1962. Set in an alternative history of England, it tells of the adventures of cousins Bonnie and Sylvia and their friend Simon the goose-boy as they thwart the evil schemes of their governess Miss Slighcarp, and their so-called "teacher" at boarding school, Mrs. Brisket. The novel is the first in the ''Wolves Chronicles'', a series of books set during the fictional early 19th-century reign of King James the Third. A large number of wolves have migrated from the bitter cold of Europe and Russia into Britain via a new "channel tunnel", and terrorise the inhabitants of rural areas. Aiken wrote the book over a period of years, with a seven-year gap due to her full-time work; the success of this, her second novel, enabled her to quit her job and write full-time. It is described by John Rowe Townsend as "a tale of double-dyed villainy, with right triumphant in the end". It was adapted into a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Aiken
Joan Delano Aiken (4 September 1924 – 4 January 2004) was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels. In 1999 she was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature. For ''The Whispering Mountain'', published by Jonathan Cape in 1968, she won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a book award judged by a panel of British children's writers, and she was a commended runner-up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British writer. She won an Edgar Allan Poe Award (1972) for ''Night Fall''. Biography Aiken was born in Mermaid Street in Rye, Sussex, on 4 September 1924. Her father was the American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Conrad Aiken (1889–1973). Her older brother was the writer and research chemist John Aiken (1913–1990), and her older sister was the writer Jane Aiken Hodge (1917–2009). Their mother, Canadian-born Jessie MacDonald (1889 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aesop's Fables
Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with his name have descended to modern times through a number of sources and continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in popular as well as artistic media. The fables originally belonged to oral tradition and were not collected for some three centuries after Aesop's death. By that time, a variety of other stories, jokes and proverbs were being ascribed to him, although some of that material was from sources earlier than him or came from beyond the Greek cultural sphere. The process of inclusion has continued until the present, with some of the fables unrecorded before the Late Middle Ages and others arriving from outside Europe. The process is continuous and new stories are still being added to the Aesop corpus, even when they are demonstrably ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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