Simple text challenges the reader to find objects hidden in the photographs.

Miss Iles became convinced that the book was the key to solving a puzzle, and that a message in secret code ran through all Twyford's novels.

Natov covers a remarkable range of authors from William Blake to J.K. Rowling. This book received the 2005 International Research Society for Children's Literature Award.

This "radical children's literature" was designed to ignite and underpin the work of making a new Britain for a new kind of Briton.

"This is a brief, readable account of English prose fiction for children from its beginning main streams of development and includes the 'Courtesy Books' of a later age, and the work of the remarkable John Newbery in the eighteenth century.

Whether dealing with the issues of popularity, peer pressure, ambition, or ambivalence this guide for teenage life shows how to live life best and make the journey to adulthood easier.

New school. New mean girl. New crush. New diary so Nikki can spill about all of it...

Books in the Life of a Child explores the value of books and reading in the stimulation of children's imagination and their fundamental importance in the development of language and true literacy.

Displaying careful scholarship, sophisticated use of contemporary literary theory, and close readings of texts while recovering and analyzing materials from more than two centuries of British and other Anglophone cultural history, this ...

Unique in its coverage of contemporary American children's literature, this timely, single-volume reference covers the books our children are--or should be--reading now, from board books to young adult novels.