The Adventures Of Peter Peterkin

The Adventures Of Peter Peterkin
Author: Gilly Bear
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2021-01-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9789354360428

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

The Penguin Pocket Dictionary of Babies' Names

The Penguin Pocket Dictionary of Babies' Names
Author: David Pickering
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2005-08-25
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0141916397

What's in a name? Rather more than you might at first suspect, for names are steeped in history and myth and have much to tell us about our past, our beliefs - even our personality traits. The Penguin Pocket Dictionary of Babies' Names takes a close look at 3500 names, explaining origins and meanings, showing how some have changed in popularity and use over time and providing all the diminutive and variant forms. Part of Penguin's major new series of reference titles ranging from Spanish and French dictionaries to books on spelling and quotations.

The Peterkin Papers

The Peterkin Papers
Author: Lucretia Peabody Hale
Publisher:
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1886
Genre: Brothers and sisters
ISBN:

The humorous adventures of a foolish family whose problems are righted by the Lady from Philadelphia.

The Lady from Philadelphia: The Peterkin Papers

The Lady from Philadelphia: The Peterkin Papers
Author: Lucretia P. Hale
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2019-08-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1681373777

The Lady from Philadelphia records the antics of the most memorably and hopelessly bumbling of respectable American families. Confronted by the endless challenges of daily life, the Peterkins rise to every occasion with misguided aplomb: They sit out in the sun for hours and fail to go for a ride because they’ve forgotten to unhitch the horse; they play the piano from the porch through the parlor window because the movers left the keyboard turned that way; they decide to raise the ceiling to accommodate a too-tall Christmas tree. Only the timely intervention of their great and good friend, the lady from Philadelphia, can be counted on to get the Peterkins out of their latest scrape. A classic of American children’s literature and a masterpiece of deadpan drollery, The Lady from Philadelphia restores our astonishment at the ordinary, finding a rich vein of humor and happy surprise in the mere fact of our surviving the trivialities and tribulations of family life.

Story Parade

Story Parade
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 584
Release: 1952
Genre: Children's literature
ISBN:

Imperialism and juvenile literature

Imperialism and juvenile literature
Author: Jeffrey Richards
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2017-03-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 152612355X

Popular culture is invariably a vehicle for the dominant ideas of its age. Never was this truer than in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when it reflected the nationalist and imperialist ideologies current throughout Europe. It both reflects popular attitudes, ideas and preconceptions and it generates support for selected views and opinions. This book examines the various media through which nationalist ideas were conveyed in late-Victorian and Edwardian times: in the theatre, "ethnic" shows, juvenile literature, education and the iconography of popular art. It seeks to examine in detail the articulation and diffusion of imperialism in the field of juvenile literature by stressing its pervasiveness across boundaries of class, nation and gender. It analyses the production, distribution and marketing of imperially-charged juvenile fiction, stressing the significance of the Victorians' discovery of adolescence, technological advance and educational reforms as the context of the great expansion of such literature. An overview of the phenomenon of Robinson Crusoe follows, tracing the process of its transformation into a classic text of imperialism and imperial masculinity for boys. The imperial commitment took to the air in the form of the heroic airmen of inter-war fiction. The book highlights that athleticism, imperialism and militarism become enmeshed at the public schools. It also explores the promotion of imperialism and imperialist role models in fiction for girls, particularly Girl Guide stories.