Children’s Literature
Bibliography
Annotated by Sandra
Effinger as of July 19, 2013
[Note: Correct bibliography
form requires that you indent every line after the first line
in an entry, but HTML restrictions make that a time-consuming
job. Titles should also be in italics, but that is so difficult
to read that I have used boldface to indicate titles instead.
Pretend this is correct, please.]
Fairy Tales and Nursery
Rhymes. Your basic
fairy tale -- rewritten, modernized, fractured and/or beautifully
illustrated.
Ada, Alma Flor. (1998) Yours Truly, Goldilocks.New
York: Simon & Schuster.
_______. (1994) Dear Peter Rabbit. New York: Aladdin.
Ahlberg, Janet and Allan. (1986) The Jolly Postman or Other
People’s Letters.Boston: Little, Brown and Company. A postman
delivers mail to fairy tale characters. Enclosures include personal
and business letters, a birthday card, an advertising flyer,
a postcard, a legal notice, a minibook, and a pound note drawn
on the Wonderland bank.
_______. (1995) The Jolly Pocket Postman. Boston: Little,
Brown and Company. Pursued by a wolf in postman’s clothes, the
postman escapes into the book itself, meeting Alice of Wonderland
and Dorothy of Oz, as well as assorted fairy tale and nursery
rhyme characters. Enclosures include a postcard, a circular story,
a spider-o-gram, a box of tin soldiers, a map, a get well card,
a minibook and a magnifying glass because “there’s more
in here than meets the eye.”
Babcock, Chris. (1993) No Moon, No Milk. New York: Crown
Publishing. Martha whose great-great-grandmother jumped over
the moon, refuses to cow around the pasture any more. No milk
until she’s a cowsmonaut. [A good example of reinterpreting a
nursery rhyme if you want to include them in your unit.]
Black, Sheila. (1991) The Witch’s Story / Hansel and Gretel.New York: Carol Publishing Group. Hungry misbehaving kids
trap Agatha, a sweet old lady witch, whose evil reputation is
undeserved because the kids tell such wild stories. Two books
in one - straightforward Hansel and Gretel when reversed.
Briggs, Raymond. (1970) Jim and the Beanstalk.New York:
Coward-McCann. In this urban version, Jack climbs up the skyscraper
fire escape and is rewarded for helping the toothless, nearly
blind bald Giant. (Some may be concerned about the pair's breakfast
of beer and beef.)
Calmenson, Stephanie. (1989) The Principal’s New Clothes.New York: Scholastic. Mr. Bundy, the vain principal of P.S.
88, takes pride in being a sharp dresser, until Moe & Ivy
con him with a magic suit “invisible to anyone who is no
good at his job or just plain stupid.”
Celsi, Teresa. (1990) The Fourth Little Pig. Austin TX:
Steck-Vaughn.
Climo, Shirley. (1989) The Egyptian Cinderella. New York:
Harper Collins.
Climo, Shirley. (1993) The Korean Cinderella. New York:
Harper Collins.
Cole, Babette. (1987) Prince Cinders. New York: Putnam. The male version.
Dahl, Roald. (1982) Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes. New
York: Puffin Books. Verse versions of “Cinderella,” “Jack and the Beanstalk,” “Snow-White and the
Seven Dwarfs,” “Goldilocks and the Three Bears,” “Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf,” and “The
Three Little Pigs” feature surprise endings in place of
the traditional happily-ever-after. Rats nibblle at Cinderella’s
feet and a Little Red wears a furry wolfskin coat. How’s this
for an opening:
I guess you think you know this story.
You don't. The real one’s much more gory.
The phoney one, the one you know,
Was cooked up years and years ago,
And made to sound all soft and sappy,
Just to keep the children happy (p 5).
de Regniers, Beatrice Schenk. (1972). Red Riding Hood. New York: Atheneum. Retold in simple
verse for young children, the slightly odd illustrations by Edward
Gorey will appeal to adults as well. My favorite in the book,
the eyes of the wolf speak volumes.
Emberley, Rebecca. (1995) Three Cool Kids. New York: Little
Brown.
Ernst, Lisa Campbell. (1995) Little Red Riding Hood: A Newfangled
Prairie Tale. New York: Simon & Schuster. Cruising the
prairie on her motorcycle, this Little Red delivers warm wheat
berry muffins and cold lemonade to her tough not-so-little grandma.
The wolf asks the traditional questions, but grandma has great
big hands “all the better to crush you like a bug.”
French, Fiona. (1986) Snow White in New York. New York:
Oxford University Press. Art Deco 1920s version uses society
headlines in the New York Mirror to tell the tale. Abandoned
on the dark New York streets, Snow White finds her way into the
Blue Diamond Club where seven jazz-men let her sing. Wicked stepmother,
a poisoned cherry in a cocktail, and a newspaper reporter complete
the tale.
Granowsky, Alvin. (1993) Cinderella/That Awful Cinderella
(Another Point of View). Austin TX: Raintree/Steck-Vaughn.
The classic tale on one side, the reverse a re-telling from another
point of view. In this instance Drusilla, one of the step-sisters,
tells how Cinderella, not so sweet and innocent, plotted to rise
above her station and entrap the prince. The retold stories have
an ironic flavor that never quite belies the familiar original.
Other retold titles available in the “Another Point of View” series include Giants Have Feelings, Too; Wake Up, Rip Van
Winkle; The Sheriff Speaks; Just a Friendly Old Troll; Brainy
Bird Saves the Day; Help Yourself, Little Red Henand Friends
at the End.
Hay, Sara Henderson. (1998) The Story Hour (Second Edition). Fayetteville AR: University of Arkansas Press. Verse re-tellings
of fairy tales, usually with a philosophical twist. “The
Builders,” often anthologized in literature textbooks, has
the wisest of the three pigs reflecting that he would have helped
his less wise brothers, if they'd only admitted they were wrong. “The Formula” is just that. Every one of the forty
sonnets has that aha! moment. [Back in print at last. Grab one while you can!]
Hooks, William H. (1989) The Three Little Pigs and the Fox. New York: Aladdin.
Jackson, Ellen B. (1994) Cinder-Edna. New York: Lothrop
Lee & Shepard. Cinderella and Cinder-Edna, both living with
cruel stepmothers and stepsisters, yet each has a very different
outlook. Cinder-Edna, not so beautiful as her neighbor, is a
strong, spunky loafer kind of gal. Interesting use of comparison/contrast
structure.
Johnson, A. E., trans. (1969) Perrault’s Fairy Tales. New York: Dover. Interesting translations with verse morals,
but the Gustave Doré illustrations could spark writing
assignments all on their own. No teenager can resist the seductive
image of the Wolf and Little Red abed.
Kitamura, Satoshi. (1995) Sheep in Wolves’ Clothing. New
York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Georgina, Hubert and Gogol get
fleeced by Wolfgang & Brothers Quality Knitwear, hire Elliott
BAA, private detective, enlist the aid of some ball-of-wool-chasing
cats, and end up with some real cool sweaters.
Laird, Donivee Martin. (1981) The Three Little Hawaiian Pigs
and the Magic Shark. Honolulu: Barnaby Book, Inc.
Lattimore, Deborah Nourse. (1997) Cinderhazel. New York:
Blue Sky Press.
Louie, Ai-Ling. (1982) Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China.New York: Putnam & Grosset. Retold Ancient Chinese tale,
complete with orphan, wicked second wife, magic fish bones, tiny
golden slippers, a kind uncle, entranced king and all.
Lowell, Susan. (1992) The Three Little Javelinas. Flagstaff
AZ: Northland Publishing. A chili-flavored Southwestern version
with peccaries and a coyote, houses made from tumbleweeds, saguaro
ribs, and adobe, a stuffed stovepipe and the source of the coyote’s
painful howl. Following note by writer explains her choices in
the adaptation.
_______. (1997) The Bootmaker and the Elves. New
York: Orchard Books. Made from “leather and dreams,” elvish cowboy boots are the best in the West. How about a a pair
made of “creamy glove leather, inlaid with lavender butterflies
and pale pink hearts, and stitched in curlicues from top to bottom
in sparkling thread”? Inspired, the bootmaker learns to
“put some fancy” in his boots, too.
_______. (1997) Little Red Cowboy Hat. New York:
Henry Holt and Company. With hair a color “somewhere between
firecrackers and new pennies,” Little Red is immediately
wary of the stranger who stands so close she can “count
the teeth in his smile.” She and her grandmother make fast
work of “that yellow-bellied, snake-blooded, skunk-eyed,
rancid son of a parellelogram.”
Lum, Darrell. (1994) The Golden Slipper.New York: Troll
Associates.
Martin, Rafe. (1992) The Rough-Face Girl. New York: Putnam. Questions all we are taught about beauty.
Meddaugh, Susan. (1997) Cinderella’s Rat. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin Company. Turned into a coachman by Cinderella’s godmother,
a rat who “expected to be a rat all [his] days” tells
the surprising story of his life.
Minters, Frances. (1994) Cinder-Elly. New York: Puffin
Books. In this modernized rap version, New York girl gets Charming
basketball dude, with the help of bag lady Godma, her magic cane,
and a trashcan that turns into a street bike.
_______. (1996) Sleepless Beauty. New York: Viking. Beauty
pricks her finger trying to play an old-time vinyl record, but
outwits the witch in a perfectly logical way, saving herself,
rather than being saved.
Munsch, Robert. (1980) The Paper Bag Princess. Buffalo
NY: Annick Press.
Perkal, Stephanie. (1967) Midnight: A Cinderella Alphabet. Arcadia CA: Shen's Books.
San Souci, Robert D. (1994) Sootface: An Ojibwa Cinderella
Story. New York: Bantam.
Scieszka, Jon. (1991) The Frog Prince Continued. New York:
Puffin Books. Sequel with an unhappy couple who are not living
happily ever after. The Prince wants to return to his frog form,
but runs into the wrong witches (ones from “Sleeping Beauty,” “Snow White,” and “Hansel and Gretel”)
_______. (1992) The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid
Tales. New York: Viking. More twists on the familiar. Here,
an ugly duckling will just grow up to be an ugly duck.
_______. (1989) The true story of the 3 little pigs. New
York: Viking. Misunderstood wolf, much abused by pigs, tells
his version of the tale. Already a modern classic, this
serves as a model for student retellings.
Stanley, Diane. (1997) Rumpelstiltskin’s Daughter. New
York: William Morrow and Company. The miller's daughter and Rumpelstiltskin
escape via a spun gold ladder, marry, and raise a daughter who
once again captures the greedy king’s attention. The daughter,
unable to spin straw into gold, works a different magic on the
king himself.
Steptoe, John. (1987) Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African
Tale. New York: Lothrop and Shepard. An African fairy tale
with a familiar moral, the true nature of each beautiful daughter
being revealed in her daily actions and a disguised king who
weds the one he deserves. African images and symbols enrich a
tale about true beauty.
Stevens, Janet. (1987) The Three Billy Goats Gruff. New
York: Harcourt Brace & Co. Watercolor characters enhance
the traditional story, especially when the oldest and toughest
of the billy goats comes calling in leather jacket and shades.
Tatar, Maria. (1997) Grimm’ s Grimmest. San Francisco:
Chronicle Books. Grimm’ s Grimmest presents nineteen of the original, unsanitized, unholy tales as they were first collected by the Brothers Grimm -- all fiendishly illustrated in full color.
Thaler, Mike. (1997) Cinderella Bigfoot. New York: Scholastic.
_______. (1997) Hanzel and Pretzel. New York: Scholastic.
_______. (1997) Schmoe White and the Seven Dorfs. New
York: Scholastic.
Trivizas, Eugene. (1994) The Three Little Wolves and the Big
Bad Pig. New York: Scholastic. A big, bad pig of a
bully, sledgehammer in hand, is no match for the three little
wolves, who start with a house of bricks and build up from there.
Vozar, David. (1993) Yo, Hungry Wolf!: A Nursery Rap. New
York: Yearling. A retelling in rap verse of “The Three Little
Pigs,” “Little Red Riding Hood,” and “The
Boy Who Cried Wolf.” Love for language makes this clever
re-telling a read-aloud must. Who can hate a wolf who feels “sort
of pretty in the old lady’s lace” or resist lines like:
“He lets out the air at the door with a roar / but the shack
is intact as he slumps to the floor.”
Walsh, Ellen Stoll. (1997) Jack’s Tale. New York: Harcourt
Brace & Co. Oh no, metafiction! In this charming model for
story writing, the author convinces his main character Jack to
participate in the fairy tale, warning him to “be extra
careful in the middle.”
Watts, Bernadette. (1988) Snow White and Rose Red. New
York: North-South Books. Two sisters, both beautiful and both
kind, rescue an enchanted prince by trying to help the evil dwarf
who entrapped him.
Yolen, Jane. (1974) The Girl Who Cried Flowers and Other Tales. New York: Schocken Books [published 1981].If the title of the
first story isn’t enough to entice you into the book, David Palladini’s
delicate ethereal illustrations will.
_______. (1981) Sleeping Ugly. New York: Putnam &
Grosset. An ironic re-telling that could easily have been trite,
charms the reader with a prince who thinks before he kisses and
prefers the smell of wildflowers to superficial beauty.
_______. (1990) Sky Dogs. New York: Harcourt Brace &
Company. A Blackfeet Indian boy, present when his tribe first
encounters horses, becomes the one who learned first the nature
of the sky dogs. Even as an old man, he remembers their snorting
laugh, their smell “like the plains after the buffalo have
passed,” and how they changed his people forever.
Young, Ed. (1989) Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from
China.New York: Philomel. In this Chinese folktale, the
wolf comes knocking on the children's door at dusk, but our girl
outwits the wolf, saving her sisters as well. Young’s illustrations
add an eerie depth to the familiar tale, something to be expected
after his dedication “to all the wolves of the world for
lending their good name as a tangible symbol for our darkness.”
Fairy Tales for Adolescents
& Adults. Seductions for teachers, but read
through before recommending to younger teens.
Barth, John. (1972) Chimera. New York: Random House. Scheherazade’s
kid sister retells the Arabian Nights and the myths of Perseus
and Bellerophon. Given the sexual nature of the stories, adult
language is no surprise. National Book Award.
Barthelme, Donald. (1967) Snow White. New York: Atheneum.
Absurd, compelling modernization in which Snow White “adds
a dimension of confusion and misery” to the lives of Kevin,
Edward, Hubert, Henry, Clem, Dan, and Bill. Worrying about which
prince will come, she lets down her hair black as ebony when
she tires of being just a housewife. Non-traditional narrative
structure yields pages which can stand alone for class use, my
favorite being the questions at the end of Part One (82-83).
Carroll, Jonathan. (1990) Sleeping in Flame. New York:
Vintage. Almost too late, Walker Easterling recognizes that Rumpelstiltskin
has invaded his movie-business “real” life, that the
price of passion is too high, and that the girl in red at the
door is dangerous.
Cashorali, Peter. (1997) Fairy Tales: Traditional Tales Retold
for Gay Men. New York: Harper. Drawn from traditional sources,
these witty “teaching tales" touch upon contemporary
issues --including coming out, “looksism,” AIDS, and
aging. Though certainly not for everyone, the stories feature
“fairy tale staples such as fickle princes, talking animals,
and inanimate objects with incredible powers, plus personal trainers,
aging boy-toys, a poignant Ugly Duckling, a movie-mad Hansel,
and a Rumpelstiltskin with a riddle about HIV” (well put
in the card catalogue description).
Coover, Robert. (1996) Briar Rose.New York: Grove Atlantic.
This sensual deconstruction of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale
is told through the dreams of the sleeping princess and the meditations
of the determined prince forcing his way through the briars that
imprison them both. Beauty is told, “You are that flame
flickering like a burning fever in the hearts of men, consuming
them with desire, bewitching them with your radiant and mysterious
allure.” As much about storytelling’s power to enchant as
it is about beauty's power to seduce, this erotic, funny book
is not for the innocent.
Datlow, Ellen and Terri Windling, eds.(1994) Black Thorn,
White Rose and (1990) Snow White, Blood Red. New
York: Avon. These anthologies of modern tales reinvent, rather
than retell, exploring the dark side of classic fairy tales.
Although distinctly modern in theme, these unsanitized feminist
versions recapture the feel of earlier oral literature -- grim
but magical, haunting and unforgettable. Because so many different
writers are included, examine each story, whether blessing or
curse, on its own.
Donoghue, Emma. (1997) Kissing the Witch. New York:
HarperCollins. Donoghue’s versions of familiar tales are unexpected, sometimes erotic, but always courageous explorations. Her age-old characters shed their antiquated cloaks to travel a seductive new landscape, radiantly transformed. Cinderella forsakes the handsome prince and runs off with the fairy godmother; Beauty discovers the Beast behind the mask is not so very different from the face she sees in the mirror; Snow White is awakened from slumber by the bittersweet fruit of an unnamed desire. Thirteen interconnected stories approach power and transformation from a mature perspective.
Fabry, Chris. (1991) Spiritually Correct Bedtime Stories:
Parables of Faith for the Modern Reader. Westmont IL: Intervarsity
Press. An unusual twist on a serious subject, the titles reveal
the traditional sources -- “The Three Theological Pigs,” “Beauty and the Mark of the Beast,” and “The Emperor's
New Bible,” for example. Religious and spiritual, but with
a sense of humor, Fabry's stories teach, not preach.
Fisher, David. (1996) Legally
Correct Fairy Tales. New York:
Warner. Looking at fairy tales from a lawyer’s viewpoint, Goldilocks
is guilty of trespass and Prince Charming of sexual harassment.
Garner, James Finn. (1995) Once Upon a More Enlightened Time and (1994) Politically Correct Bedtime Stories. New York:
MacMillan. Proper versions of familiar tales, a bit tongue-in-cheek.
For example, in this version of Little Red Riding Hood, all the
characters enter therapy and live a happy alternative life style.
Maguire, Gregory. (1995) Wicked: The Life and Times of
the Wicked Witch of the West. New York: Harper Collins. The basis for the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, this bestseller views the land of Oz, its inhabitants, its Wizard, and the Emerald City, through a darker and greener (not rosier) lens. Brilliantly inventive, Wicked offers us a radical new evaluation of one of the most feared and hated characters in all of literature.
McKinley, Robin. (1993) Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of
Beauty and the Beast. New York: Harper Trophy. Not nearly
as beautiful as her elder sisters, Hope and Grace, this awkward
sixteen-year-old is clever and brave. The Beast's most seductive
qualities are intelligence and compassion. This juvenile romance
is about love, not lust. Nicknamed Beauty, the heroine's real
name is Honour.
Sexton, Anne. (1971) Transformations. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin. Sexton’s seventeen poems are modernist twists on familiar
tales. This is a sample: “Beauty is a simple passion/but,
oh my friends, in the end/ you will dance the fire dance in iron
shoes.”
Weis, Margaret. (1995). Fantastic Alice: New Stories from Wonderland. New York:
Ace OR Berkeley. Carroll enthusiasts will relish these 19 short stories, all takeoffs on the Alice theme, presenting fantasy embellishments -- from Alice's adventures in the underground railroad to her encounters with the inner rabbit, this provides many unexpected pleasures. One even makes intriguing connections between Carroll and Emily Dickinson. Several stories bring Carrollian characters to the real world -- one in which the Red Queen shows up (with an ax), another brings to reality the Cheshire Cat, the Dormouse and the Duchess’s pig-baby.
Wilde, Oscar. (1912) The Happy Prince
and Other Fairy Tales. New York: Putnam. Wilde's tales are
too dark for children, but appeal to teenagers. “The Nightingale
and the Rose” with its nightingale who sings of love all
night long, a rose thorn pressed to its breast, dying a white
rose red, is both romantic and tragic.
Critical Resources
Bettelheim, Bruno. (1976) The Uses
of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. New
York: Alfred A. Knopf. Bettelheim contends that fairy tales treat
the child’s existential predicaments seriously, conveying overt
and covert meanings. Art first and foremost, fairy tales present
different meanings to different children and to the same children
at different times in their lives. He focuses on the child’s
need for magic, the satisfaction of vicarious experience, the
conscious recognition of truths, the importance of externalized
dangers and fears, the power of transformation. His detailed
analysis of familiar tales is insightful and intriguing, even
when arguable or uncomfortably psychoanalytical. A must-read
for any serious study of fairy tales.
Campbell, Joseph. (1970) The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Campbell shows how many
stories, including fairy tales, fit an adventure plot pattern
that includes a call to adventure, a threshold crossing, various
tests and helpers, and an ultimate return crossing with the elixir
(or benefit for the community) which earns the hero his reward.
Sounds complicated, but Campbell’s paradigm is an excellent source
for analysis and as a way to structure original tales. George
Lucas imitated this pattern when creating his modern Star
Warsfairy tale.
Fromm, Erich. (1951) The Forgotten Language: An Introduction
to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales and Myths. New
York: Rinehart. Fromm sees fairy tales as metaphoric dramatizations
of psychological truths. Expressed in the symbolism of the unconscious
mind, fairy tales speak the language of dreams, the source of
their emotional energy. Similar to analysis by Freud and Jung,
Fromm’s writing is much more approachable.
Jones, Steven Swann. (1995) The Fairy Tale: The Magic Mirror
of Imagination. New York: Twayne. Jones traces the history
of fairy tales and critical approaches - psychological, socio-historical,
and formalist. His first chapter, “The Folklore Origin and
the Definition of the Fairy Tale,” covers all the major
players and their attempts to determine the essential qualities
of a fairy tale. Additional chapters cover major thematic categories,
literary history of the form, characteristics of tales with male
or female protagonists, and the contemporary influence of fairy
tales. The bibliographic essay, recommended reading, chronology,
and annotated end notes are excellent classroom resources and
springboards for further research.
Propp, Vladimir. (1975) Morphology of the Folktale.2nd
ed. rev. and ed. by Louis Wagner. Austin TX: University of Texas
Press. [First published in 1928.] Propp identifies a sequential
pattern of 31 elements of the fairy tale’s plot structure. An
ambitious undertaking which is useful for analysis, even though
some of the elements (or functions) are very general and he sometimes
tries too hard to make every story fit his quest pattern.
Tatar, Maria. (1987) The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press. Murder, mutilation,
cannibalism, infanticide, and all that is dark and forbidden
in fairy tales only makes them more compelling. Tatar opens our
eyes to the truly ghastly details we sometimes overlook in tales
which have become tame in their familiarity. For example, most
readers ignore the infanticide and cannibalism at the core of
a story like “Hansel and Gretel.” She discusses how
even the Grimm Brothers expurgated their own text and what we
lose when these tales are no longer grim.
Tolkien, J.R.R. (1965) “On Fairie-Stories.” Tree
and Leaf. Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin.
Warner, Marina. (1995) From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy
Tales and Their Tellers. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Warner’s flair for the apt phrase enlivens every page of this
social and cultural history of fairy tales and their tellers.
Not the expected feminist analysis, the books nonetheless focuses
on women with unexpected visions and impressive observations.
Yolen, Jane. (1983) “Introduction: The Bright Ring of Words.” Tales of Wonder. New York: Schocken Books.
Zipes, Jack. (1994) Fairy Tale as Myth, Myth as Fairy Tale.Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. Zipes traces the
history and development of the literary fairy tale as a genre.
With a decidedly sociological twist, he contends that modern
interpretations have distorted classic fairy tales for consciously
ideological purposes. He uses “Beauty and the Beast” to trace 300 years of the literary fairy tale, including texts,
illustrations, and film/video. Zipes examines contemporary topics
-- Walt Disney, L. Frank Baum, Robert Bly, The Princess Bride and others -- more closely than anyone else.
Other Useful Books
Anholt, Laurence. (1996) Degas and
the Little Dancer. Hauppauge NY: Barron’s Educational Series.Others in the series include Picasso and the Girl with a Ponytail, Leonardo and the Flying Boy, The Magical Garden of Claude Monet, Camille and the Sunflowers (Van Gogh), Cezanne and the Apple Boy, and Matisse the King of Color. Clever stories about each artist, not only engage younger readers, but also convey more information than one might expect. Illustrated beautifully, inlcuding several representative art repreoductions by each artist.
Cumming, Robert. (1995) Annotated
Art. New York: Dorling Kindersley Limited. Using annotation to highlight everything you need to know to appreciate forty-five of the world’s favorite paintings, from Botticelli's The Birth of Venus to Picasso’s Guernica, this book explains the artist’s techniques and intentions and clarifies the meaning of obscure subjects, decoding the mysterious symbolism that can make even the most familiar painting elusive.
Denman, Cherry. (1995) The History
Puzzle. Atlanta GA: Turner Publishing. Panoramas present events and people in world history, from the dawn of life to the edge of tomorrow. Clues challenge readers to create their own interactive timeline.
Hall, Susan. (1994) Using Picture Storybooks to Teach Literary
Devices. Phoenix AZ: Oryx Press. All-ages picture storybooks, enjoyable by adults as well as children, are included. In Volumes one through three, a definition is given for each device, followed by descriptions of appropriate storybooks, with information on how to use them, the art style used in the book, and a curriculum tie-in. Starting with Volume four, information is arranged by storybook, with all relevant terms and examples given under each title entry. Much better organization to me.to me. Among the literary devices included are alliteration, analogy, flashback, irony, metaphor, paradox, tone, and 34 more.
Laden, Nina. (1998) When Pigasso
met Mootisse. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. Verbal and visual puns fill this sly homage to Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, caricatured as a prima-donna pig and a feisty bull. Laden cites cubist and fauvist philosophies and mimics the real painters’ techniques.
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