Bridges for the Young: The Fiction of Katherine PatersonM. Sarah Smedman, Joel Chaston Children's Literature Association and The Scarecrow Press, 2003 - 330 pàgines Children's writer Paterson is the winner of the Newbery prize for her works Bridge to Terabithia and Jacob Have I Loved. Sixteen essays, presented by Smedman (children's literature, Minnesota State U. at Moorhead) and Chaston (English, Southwest Missouri State U.), critically examine her works, discussing major themes including her commitment to Christianity, feminism, and ideas on peace. Treatments of all her major works of fiction and nonfiction are included. Also included is an essay in which Patterson reflects on her own writing, as well as a bibliography of her works Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com). |
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... wanted their own students to understand and work through - I had to admit that those things I most value in Pater- son's work - her humor , her seemingly endless patterns of kaleido- scopic imagery , and her recognition of the ...
... wanted their own students to understand and work through - I had to admit that those things I most value in Pater- son's work - her humor , her seemingly endless patterns of kaleido- scopic imagery , and her recognition of the ...
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... wanted my students to see , showed the contradictions of the modern era they wanted to talk about . The dead father had compared his son to Porky the Pig and his mother carries out what was probably an affectionate joke by calling the ...
... wanted my students to see , showed the contradictions of the modern era they wanted to talk about . The dead father had compared his son to Porky the Pig and his mother carries out what was probably an affectionate joke by calling the ...
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... wanted to go and live the expatriate life in Paris after World War I ; when her father refused to let her go , she chose instead the lesser adventure of teaching school on the remote Chesapeake Bay island . " I am what I wanted to be ...
... wanted to go and live the expatriate life in Paris after World War I ; when her father refused to let her go , she chose instead the lesser adventure of teaching school on the remote Chesapeake Bay island . " I am what I wanted to be ...
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Bridges to Literary Worlds Intertextuality and Literacy | 6 |
Narrative Strategies in Katherine | 18 |
Feminist Dialogics in Katherine Patersons Novels | 41 |
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