Author: Butler, Francelia ; & Rotert, Richard ; editors:
Title: Triumphs of the Spirit in Children's Literature
Description: Hamden [CT], Library Prof. Publications, 1986. orig. wrappers. 22x15cm, xxi, 252 pp. PAPERBACK.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ With a foreword by Marcia Brown and an introduction by Madeleine L'Engle. Contents: Triumph of the spirit of Cynthia Voigt's Homecoming, Dicey's song, and A solitary blue / Gloria Jameson -- Of good courage / Anne Devereaux Jordan -- Farley Mowat in the wilderness / Richard Rotert -- Bravery and philosophy in The adventures of frog and toad / Gareth B. Matthews -- Imaginative uses of secrecy in children's literature / John Daniel Stahl -- Secrets and healing magic in The secret garden / Gillian Adams -- Diary of a dream : triumph of the creative spirit of Elizabeth Yates / Janice M. Alberghene -- Survival and the imagination in depression-set fiction for children / Deanna Zitterkopf -- Survival of the spirit in Holocaust literature for and about children / Leonard M. Mendelsohn -- Triumph of the spirit in nonfiction for Black children / Jim Haskins -- Death and the human spirit in Jill Paton Walsh's A parcel of patterns / Mary Shaner -- Abused children and their triumphs in literature / Francelia Butler -- Andersen's heroes and heroines : relinquishing the reward / Celia Catlett Anderson -- Mythic consciousness and Hawaiian children's literature / Stephen Canham -- Childlike spirit of the avant- garde and children's literature / Jay Livernois -- Progression through contraries : the triumph of the spirit in the work of Maurice Sendak / Geraldine Deluca -- Marguerite Yourcenar and Michel Tournier : the arts of the heart / Margaret R. Higonnet -- Victorious monkey : favorite figure in Chinese literature for children / Guo Jian -- Instructive animals in Greek

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