Resource Archive
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A (revised) selection of recommended books for children (and some for adults too) that include stories about asylum seekers and refugees from around the world posted on 18 Jun 2018
A (revised) selection of recommended books for children that include stories about asylum seekers and refugees from around the world
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A textual analysis of Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman posted on 20 Jun 2016
This short essay by university student Catherine Bardell analyses a selected extract from Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
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Through The Looking Glasses : A selected list of children's books featuring characters who wear spectacles posted on 22 May 2016
Through The Looking Glasses : A selected list of children's books featuring characters who wear spectacles
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The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett: a short textual analysis posted on 26 Apr 2016
This piece of research by Catherine Bardell analyses an extract from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson-Burnett
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Powerful picture books: understanding disability in nursery schools posted on 15 Apr 2016
This unpublished thesis by Karen Argent argues that picture books for young children can contribute to alternative constructions of disability
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Trade unionism and political power in Margot Heinemann’s The Adventurers [1960] posted on 13 Apr 2016
The Adventurers [1960] was Margot Heinemann’s first and only published work of fiction.
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Useful resources for Picturebook enthusiasts posted on 06 Apr 2016
This very useful resource about picture books has been put together by Dr. Mary Roche
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Children’s Literature and the social construction of ideas of family posted on 27 Mar 2016
We present an essay by Catherine Bardell , a student at Newman University, who looks at how ideas of family are constructed in children's books
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Why Study About Children's Literature? posted on 06 Jan 2016
This piece of research is concerned with what a group of second year undergraduate students on an Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) degree course
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For the Good Old Cause: trade unionism, the Communist Party of Great Britain and the post-war novel 1950-1965 posted on 11 Dec 2015
It is... no co-incidence that depictions of trade unions and trade unionism in British novels written following the end of World War Two are dominated by .