Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood

Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood
Author: Maria Tatar
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2009-04-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780393066012

Tatar challenges the assumptions we make about childhood reading. By exploring how beauty and horror operate in children's literature, she examines how and what children read, showing how literature transports and transforms children with its intoxicating, captivating and occasionally terrifying energy.

Enchanted World of Childhood

Enchanted World of Childhood
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 14844
Release: 2022-11-13
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

DigiCat presents to you this meticulously edited collection of the most-beloved and enjoyed children's classics of all time. We include the educational classics retold for children, but also - the eternally enchanting tales of dragons, magical creatures, fantastic adventures and animal stories: Dragon Tales: The Reluctant Dragon My Father's Dragon The Book of Dragons Animal Tales & Fables: The Tale of Peter Rabbit The Tale of Benjamin Bunny... Mother West Wind Series The Burgess Bird Book for Children The Burgess Animal Book for Children The Velveteen Rabbit Uncle Wiggily's Adventures & Other Tales Little Bun Rabbit Mother Goose in Prose Lulu's Library The Jungle Book... White Fang Black Beauty The Story of Doctor Dolittle... Aesop Fables The Panchatantra Russian Picture Fables for the Little Ones The Russian Garland: Folk Tales Fairy tales & Fantasies: Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Complete Fairy Tales of Brothers Grimm Complete Fairy Books of Andrew Lang Five Children and It... Peter Pan Alice in Wonderland Through the Looking Glass The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Collection At the Back of the North Wind The Princess and the Goblin Tanglewood Tales... All the Way to Fairyland Friendly Fairies... Old Peter's Russian Tales Childhood Adventures: Robin Hood Pinocchio Gingerbread Man Little Women The Secret Garden A Little Princess The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Journey to the Centre of the Earth Treasure Island... Anne of Green Gables Collection... The Wind in the Willows The Box-Car Children The Railway Children Oliver Twist David Copperfield... Classics Retold: The Iliad of Homer Odysseus The Arabian Nights Entertainments Viking Tales Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table Chaucer for Children Tales from Shakespeare Don Quixote The Pilgrim's Progress Robinson Crusoe Voyage to Lilliput Little Goody Two-Shoes & Mrs Margery Two-Shoes Charles Dickens' Children Stories The Story of Hiawatha Uncle Tom's Cabin Pocahontas

Child of Glass

Child of Glass
Author: Beatrice Alemagna
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN: 9781592703036

A story about difference, exclusion, experience, and ultimately the embrace of one's core self, Child of Glass explores the interplay between inner and outer and the journey we have to go on to be at home within ourselves.

What If...

What If...
Author: Thierry Lenain
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2019
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781592702817

A child looks out at the world's wars, famine, pollution, and other miseries and thinks of ways to make things better.

The Enchanted Hour

The Enchanted Hour
Author: Meghan Cox Gurdon
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2019-01-15
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0062562835

A Wall Street Journal writer’s conversation-changing look at how reading aloud makes adults and children smarter, happier, healthier, more successful and more closely attached, even as technology pulls in the other direction. A miraculous alchemy occurs when one person reads to another, transforming the simple stuff of a book, a voice, and a bit of time into complex and powerful fuel for the heart, brain, and imagination. Grounded in the latest neuroscience and behavioral research, and drawing widely from literature, The Enchanted Hour explains the dazzling cognitive and social-emotional benefits that await children, whatever their class, nationality or family background. But it’s not just about bedtime stories for little kids: Reading aloud consoles, uplifts and invigorates at every age, deepening the intellectual lives and emotional well-being of teenagers and adults, too. Meghan Cox Gurdon argues that this ancient practice is a fast-working antidote to the fractured attention spans, atomized families and unfulfilling ephemera of the tech era, helping to replenish what our devices are leaching away. For everyone, reading aloud engages the mind in complex narratives; for children, it’s an irreplaceable gift that builds vocabulary, fosters imagination, and kindles a lifelong appreciation of language, stories and pictures. Bringing together the latest scientific research, practical tips, and reading recommendations, The Enchanted Hour will both charm and galvanize, inspiring readers to share this invaluable, life-altering tradition with the people they love most.

Enchanted Glass

Enchanted Glass
Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2010-04-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0061991937

Aidan Cain has had the worst week of his life. His gran died, he was sent to a foster home, and now malicious beings are stalking him. There is one person Gran told Aidan to go to if he ever got into trouble—a powerful sorcerer who lives at Melstone House. But when Aidan arrives on the doorstep, he finds that the sorcerer's grandson, Andrew, has inherited the house. The good news is that Aidan can tell immediately that Andrew's brimming with magic, too—and so is everyone else at Melstone. The bad news is that Andrew doesn't remember anything his grandfather taught him. Chaos is swiftly rising, and he has no idea how to control it. A sinister neighbor is stealing power from the land, magic is leaking between realms . . . and it's only a matter of time before the Stalkers find Aidan. If Aidan and Andrew can harness their own magics, they may be able to help each other. But can they do it before the entire countryside comes apart at the seams?

The World in a Second

The World in a Second
Author: Isabel Minhós Martins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2015
Genre: JUVENILE NONFICTION
ISBN: 9781592701575

A story inspired by the question, "What are people doing right at this moment on the other side of the world?" depicts natural and human events happening all over the world—from New York and Turkey to South Africa and Greece—at the same second.

Telephone Tales

Telephone Tales
Author: Gianni Rodari
Publisher:
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2020-09-08
Genre: JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN: 9781592702848

Reminiscent of Scheherazade and One Thousand and One Nights, Gianni Rodari's Telephone Tales is many stories within a story. Every night, a traveling father must finish a bedtime story in the time that a single coin will buy. One night, it's a carousel that adults cannot comprehend, but whose operator must be some sort of magician, the next, it's a land filled with butter men who melt in the sunshine Awarded the Hans Christian Anderson Award in 1970, Gianni Rodari is widely considered to be Italy's most important children's author of the 20th century. Newly re-illustrated by Italian artist Valerio Vidali​ (The Forest)​, Telephone Tales​ entertains, while questioning and imagining other worlds.

Roland

Roland
Author: Nelly Stephane
Publisher:
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2016
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781592702046

Roland's picture of a tiger comes to life and it causes him to draw other animals which also come to life.

Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood

Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood
Author: Maria Tatar
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2009-04-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0393240045

Highly illuminating for parents, vital for students and book lovers alike, Enchanted Hunters transforms our understanding of why children should read. Ever wondered why little children love listening to stories, why older ones get lost in certain books? In this enthralling work, Maria Tatar challenges many of our assumptions about childhood reading. Much as our culture pays lip service to the importance of literature, we rarely examine the creative and cognitive benefits of reading from infancy through adolescence. By exploring how beauty and horror operated in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels, and many other narratives, Tatar provides a delightful work for parents, teachers, and general readers, not just examining how and what children read but also showing through vivid examples how literature transports and transforms children with its intoxicating, captivating, and occasionally terrifying energy. In the tradition of Bruno Bettelheim’s landmark The Uses of Enchantment, Tatar’s book is not only a compelling journey into the world of childhood but a trip back for adult readers as well.