Encourage young children to use their imagination with these captivating fiction storybooks! With high-interest text and vibrant illustrations and images, beginning readers will be engaged and develop
The fiction titles in this collection will inspire young children to use their imagination with engaging stories that are filled with high-interest text, vibrant illustrations and images, age-appropri
Pura Belpré Award winnerBoston Globe-Horn Book HonorBooklist Editors' ChoiceNYPL 100 Best Children's BookALA Notable Children's BookIRA Notable Children's Books for a Global SocietyKirkus Best Children's BookPen Center USA Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult LiteratureWinner of the 2011 Pure Belpre Award for fiction now in an elegant paperback edition!From the time he is a young boy, Neftali hears the call of a mysterious voice. He knows he must follow it--even when the neighborhood children taunt him, and when his harsh, authoritarian father ridicules him, and when he doubts himself. It leads him under the canopy of the lush rain forest, into the fearsome sea, and through the persistent Chilean rain, until finally, he discovers its source.Combining elements of magical realism with biography, poetry, literary fiction, and sensorial, transporting illustrations, Pam Munoz Ryan and Peter Sis take readers on a rare journey of the heart and imagination.
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See, perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time, comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are trying to figure out the world around them: Anna and Omeir, on opposite sides of the formidable city walls during the 1453 siege of Constantinople; teenage idealist Seymour in an attack on a public library in present day Idaho; and Konstance, on an interstellar ship bound for an exoplanet, decades from now. Like Marie-Laure and Werner in All the Light We Cannot See, Anna, Omeir, Seymour, and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders who find resourcefulness and hope in the midst of peril. An ancient text--the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky--provides solace and mystery to these unforgetta
Perhaps best known for his widely acclaimed translations of the Greek tragedies and Herodotus's History, as well as his edition of Hobbes's Thucydides, David Grene has also had a major impact as a tea
The statement, "The Civil Rights Movement changed America," though true, has become something of a cliche. Civil rights in the White Literary Imagination seeks to determine how, exactly, the Civil Rig
Far from being a unique, defining property of the confessional poets, confessionalism is a central trope of American literature. This book examines confessional writing not as a private, apolitical ar
"Witnesses to the disappearance of a text, palimpsest manuscripts bear the marks of their own genesis, for their original inscription was rubbed out and written over on the same parchment. Erasure is
This book examines the connection between Darwin's world-changing theory of evolution, subsequent scientific discoveries, and the literary imagination. Page (English, U. of Nebraska-Lincoln) reference
In Liberty of the Imagination, Edward Cahill uncovers the surprisingly powerful impact of eighteenth-century theories of the imagination—philosophical ideas about aesthetic pleasure, taste, genius, th
From its growth in Europe in the nineteenth century, detective fiction has developed into one of the most popular genres of literature and popular culture more widely. In this monograph, Mary Evans ex
This text brings together the writings of more than twenty international academics to explore the rapidly expanding field of literary journalism – a term the editors view as ?disputed terrain'. Journa
The editors (journalism professors at the U. of Lincoln) present 23 papers exploring examples and issues of literary journalism in global media (albeit with an admitted Anglophonic slant). Papers addr
