On the Success of Children's Books and Fairy Tales: A Comparative View of Impact Theory and Reception Research

1995 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Reinbert Tabbert ◽  
Kristin Wardetzky
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Impact Theory

The decoration of the book by Lewis Carroll's “Alice in Wonderland”

2013 ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
Daria Kasianova
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Detailed History ◽  
Alice In Wonderland ◽  
History Of ◽  
Age Features ◽  
The 19Th Century

The article discusses the features and basic requirements for the design of children's books. For example, was selected to the book by Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland." The purpose of this work: an analysis of the features of decoration of children's books by the example of author's illustrations to the tale of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" in connection with the upcoming celebration of the 150 year anniversary of the publication of the book in 1865. To achieve this goal has been studied history of fairy tales. Attention is paid to the choice of a suitable translation into Russian. Because the book is based entirely on English puns and witticisms, folklore, linguistic and philological subtleties, it is hard to understand Russian readers, and even more so for children. The analysis of the existing analogue illustrations and prototypes of the main characters of fairy tales. Detailed history of the characters. Studied costumes of the characters of the 19th century, faithfully reproduce the historical era. Together illustrations adapted to the modern reader. The examples of stylized characters. Defined the main age group of readers for whom the book is intended. In this regard, consider age features and requirements for registration. Formed the basic concept of decoration. It is the desire to approach most closely to the original text, and not to deviate from the real prototype in the direction of the stereotypical characters, falsely taken as a model to follow. At the same time reflects the problem of conformity visuals and content of the book. As the techniques of performing multi-layered watercolor technique chosen.

scholarly journals The LGBT-Heroes in Modern Foreign Fairy Tales (How to Read With Children)

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-172
Author(s):  
Olga Derkachova
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
New Type ◽  
Main Thing

The article is devoted to the LGBT-protagonists as a new type of heroes in modern foreign fairy tales. Such tales are becoming popular in the modern world. So, there is a problem to read or not to read them and if to read how to do it. The best thing is to analyze them not through the LGBT-base, but through the human being. The writers use traditional tale’s plots and heroes and just change sexual nature. LGBT-relationships are typically avoided in children’s books. Such tales put children towards understanding these relationships. They also show that protagonists’ features and acts are more important for readers than their homosexuality. A human with his feelings and acts is the main thing in LGBT-tales

scholarly journals Bridge to Cultural Understanding

2021 ◽  
pp. 281-291
Author(s):  
Maureen White
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Picture Book ◽  
The United States ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Realistic Fiction ◽  
Popular Subject ◽  
Book Format

This longitudinal study on recommended children's books translated into English and published in the United States between 1990-2003 allowed the researchers to identify trends in translations based on language, genre and subject. The most frequent language of translation was German, followed by French and Swedish. Animal Personification was the most popular genre, followed by Realistic Fiction and Information books. A majority of the translated children's books were in the picture book format, primarily from the Animal Personification genre. Popular subject headings included Animals (specific)-Fiction, Fairy Tales/Folklore, Family Relationships-Fiction and Friendship-Fiction, much the same as in the United States.

scholarly journals Brothers Grimm’ fairy tales in illustrations by russian artists

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 235-267
Author(s):  
Dmitriy Fomin ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Visual Interpretation ◽  
Brothers Grimm ◽  
Over Time

The article provides a brief overview of the most interesting illustrative cycles of brothers Grimm’ fairy tales, created by Russian artists in the XX and early XXI centuries, and examines different approaches to visual interpretation of German folklore. Although some successful graphic interpretations of Grimm’ subjects began to appear early in post-revolutionary years, for a number of reasons this valuable literary material long remained outside of attention sphere of the most significant artists of children’s books. The period of the second half of the 1970s-1980s became the happiest and most fruitful in the publishing fate of fairy tales, when such remarkable masters as N. I. Zeitlin, E. G. Monin, M. S. Mayofis, G. A. V. Traugot, N. G. Golts, B. A. Diodorov, etc. took up the illustration. The second part of the article compares graphic interpretations of the most famous fairy tales of brothers Grimm: “The pot of porridge”, “The gingerbread house”, “The Bremen town musicians”, “The brave little tailor”. The author traces how the interpretations of textbook subjects change and become more complex over time, and what artistic means prove their relevance.

scholarly journals Os "novos" contos de fadas: tradição e inovação em A Bela e a Adormecida, de Gaiman e Riddell

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-56
Author(s):  
Marta Passos Pinheiro ◽  
Sabrina Ramos Gomes
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Graphic Design ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Neil Gaiman ◽  
Illustrated Book

In this article, we investigate tradition and innovation in the work Beauty and the Sleeping by analyzing the construction of the narrative, considering the important role of graphic design and illustrations. In this way, we approach the collaborations between two important British authors: the writer Neil Gaiman and the illustrator ChrisRiddell. As a theoretical reference we give priority to studies on illustration and graphic design of children's books - Nikolajeva and Scott. Moraes, Linden and Ramos -, dialoguing with studies on fairy tales - Betelheim, Corso and Corso, Coelho and Propp. We could observe that even if it is not an illustrated book, according to the English conception of picturebook, the narrative is told not only by the written text, but also by illustrations and graphic design. The dialogue between writer and illustrator and the freedom he had to present his point of view were fundamental for the success of the work.

‘Here in India’: Nineteenth-Century British Women Navigating their Position in the Empire through Children's Literature

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-185
Author(s):  
Jesse Aberbach
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Infants And Children ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Maternal Roles ◽  
Female Writers ◽  
And Control ◽  
Botanical Study

This article considers how the children's books written by two nineteenth-century female writers, Eliza Tabor and Mary Martha Sherwood, when they accompanied their husbands to India, enabled them to navigate this new environment and their position as respectable middle-class women while revealing how India was deemed a place where British childhood was impossible. Just as many women took up botanical study to legitimise their ‘otherwise transgressive presence in imperial spaces’ (McEwan 219), writing for children enabled others to engage with the masculine world of travelling and earning money without compromising their femininity. Addressing their work to children also seems to have helped both writers to deal with the absence of their own children: the Indian climate made it impossibly challenging for most British infants and children. In this way their writing gives expression to what might be termed a crisis of imperial motherhood. Underlying the texts is an anxiety relating to British settlement and an attempt to comprehend and control a place that threatened their maternal roles.

The Adult as Foe or Friend?: Childism in Guus Kuijer's Criticism and Fiction

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Joosen
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Memorial Award ◽  
Adult Reader ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Selection Of

Compared to the attention that children's literature scholars have paid to the construction of childhood in children's literature and the role of adults as authors, mediators and readers of children's books, few researchers have made a systematic study of adults as characters in children's books. This article analyses the construction of adulthood in a selection of texts by the Dutch author and Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award winner Guus Kuijer and connects them with Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's recent concept of ‘childism’ – a form of prejudice targeted against children. Whereas Kuijer published a severe critique of adulthood in Het geminachte kind [The despised child] (1980), in his literary works he explores a variety of positions that adults can take towards children, with varying degrees of childist features. Such a systematic and comparative analysis of the way grown-ups are characterised in children's texts helps to shed light on a didactic potential that materialises in different adult subject positions. After all, not only literary and artistic aspects of children's literature may be aimed at the adult reader (as well as the child), but also the didactic aspect of children's books can cross over between different age groups.

Life in the Open with Charles Frederick Holder

2014 ◽  
Vol 96 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-221
Author(s):  
Jane Apostol
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Sport Fishing ◽  
Prolific Author ◽  
Natural Scientist ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Santa Catalina Island

Natural scientist Charles Frederick Holder settled in Pasadena in 1885. As a prolific author, lecturer, and editor, Holder was a key promoter of the region, sport fishing, and natural science. He wrote popular children’s books as well. He is also remembered as an influential figure in education and the arts and as a founder of the Tuna Club on Santa Catalina Island and the Valley Hunt Club in Pasadena and its Tournament of Roses.

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