KIDNAPPED AIRLINE STEWARDESSES (The White Slaver Fantasy Series Book 8)
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When airline food was gourm Page size approx 8 x Packaged in plastic sleeve with cardboard backing This is a brand new single sided reproduction print of a The Stewardesses poster. The paper size is approximately 27 x 40 Inches - 69cm x cm The condition of this item is brand new - mint condi An original vintage magazine ad removed from a magazine printed in the year shown.
Print ads make unique gift items that can be framed as artwork. Shipped flat un-framed in plastic sleeve with backing The kind of book that's a nuisance to own. Everyone wants to borrow it. It is considered to be the first picture book produced specifically for children. A Pretty and Splendid Maiden's Mirror , an adaptation of a German book for young women, became the first Swedish children's book upon its publication.
Called the first European storybook to contain fairy-tales, it eventually had 75 separate stories and written for an adult audience. Russia 's earliest children's books, primers , appeared in the late 16th century. The modern children's book emerged in midth-century England. A Little Pretty Pocket-Book , written and published by John Newbery , is widely considered the first modern children's book, published in It was a landmark as the first children's publication aimed at giving enjoyment to children, [26] containing a mixture of rhymes, picture stories and games for pleasure.
The book was child—sized with a brightly colored cover that appealed to children—something new in the publishing industry. Known as gift books, these early books became the precursors to the toy books popular in the 19th century. According to the journal The Lion and the Unicorn , "Newbery's genius was in developing the fairly new product category, children's books, through his frequent advertisements The improvement in the quality of books for children, as well as the diversity of topics he published, helped make Newbery the leading producer of children's books in his time.
He published his own books as well as those by authors such as Samuel Johnson and Oliver Goldsmith ; [9]: Another philosopher who influenced the development of children's literature was Jean-Jacques Rousseau , who argued that children should be allowed to develop naturally and joyously. His idea of appealing to a children's natural interests took hold among writers for children.
The History of Harry and Lucy urged children to teach themselves.
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Rousseau's ideas also had great influence in Germany, especially on German Philanthropism , a movement concerned with reforming both education and literature for children. Its founder, Johann Bernhard Basedow , authored Elementarwerk as a popular textbook for children that included many illustrations by Daniel Chodowiecki. Another follower, Joachim Heinrich Campe , created an adaptation of Robinson Crusoe that went into over printings. He became Germany's "outstanding and most modern" [2]: The Brothers Grimm preserved and published the traditional tales told in Germany.
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This dislike of non-traditional stories continued there until the beginning of the next century. As professors, they had a scholarly interest in the stories, striving to preserve them and their variations accurately, recording their sources. By compiling these stories, they preserved Norway's literary heritage and helped create the Norwegian written language.
Danish author and poet Hans Christian Andersen traveled through Europe and gathered many well-known fairy tales and created new stories in the fairy tale genre. In Switzerland , Johann David Wyss published The Swiss Family Robinson in , with the aim of teaching children about family values, good husbandry, the uses of the natural world and self-reliance. The book became popular across Europe after it was translated into French by Isabelle de Montolieu.
The shift to a modern genre of children's literature occurred in the midth century; didacticism of a previous age began to make way for more humorous, child-oriented books, more attuned to the child's imagination. The availability of children's literature greatly increased as well, as paper and printing became widely available and affordable, the population grew and literacy rates improved. Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes appeared in , and is considered to be the founding book in the school story tradition.
Regarded as the first "English masterpiece written for children" [9]: In , Carlo Collodi wrote the first Italian fantasy novel, The Adventures of Pinocchio , which was translated many times. In that same year, Emilio Salgari , the man who would become "the adventure writer par excellence for the young in Italy" [38] first published his legendary character Sandokan. Barrie told the story of Peter Pan in the novel Peter and Wendy in Johanna Spyri 's two-part novel Heidi was published in Switzerland in and Boys' book writer Oliver Optic published over books.
In , the "epoch-making book" [9]: This " coming of age " story established the genre of realistic family books in the United States. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a plethora of children's novels began featuring realistic, non-magical plotlines. The Chinese Revolution of and World War II brought political and social change that revolutionized children's literature in China.
Western science, technology, and literature became fashionable. China's first modern publishing firm, Commercial Press , established several children's magazines, which included Youth Magazine , and Educational Pictures for Children. Yuxiu encouraged novelist Shen Dehong to write for children as well.
Dehong went on to rewrite 28 stories based on classical Chinese literature specifically for children. The Chinese Revolution of changed children's literature again. Many children's writers were denounced, but Tianyi and Ye Shengtao continued to write for children and created works that aligned with Maoist ideology. The death of Mao Zedong provoked more changes that swept China. Many writers from the early part of the century were brought back, and their work became available again. In , General Anthology of Modern Children's Literature of China , a fifteen-volume anthology of children's literature since the s, was released.
Literature for children developed as a separate category of literature especially in the Victorian era. Some works became internationally known, such as those of Lewis Carroll , Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass. At the end of the Victorian era and leading into the Edwardian era, Beatrix Potter was an author and illustrator, best known for her children's books, which featured animal characters. Potter eventually went on to publish 23 children's books and become a wealthy woman. Tunnell and James S.
In the latter years of the 19th century, precursors of the modern picture book were illustrated books of poems and short stories produced by English illustrators Randolph Caldecott , Walter Crane , and Kate Greenaway. These had a larger proportion of pictures to words than earlier books, and many of their pictures were in colour. Some British artists made their living illustrating novels and children's books; among them were Arthur Rackham , Cicely Mary Barker , W.
Heath Robinson , Henry J. Ford , John Leech , and George Cruikshank. The Kailyard school of Scottish writers, notably J. Barrie , creator of Peter Pan , presented an idealised version of society and brought fantasy and folklore back into fashion. In Hugh Lofting created the character Doctor Dolittle who appears in a series of twelve books.
The main exceptions in England were the publications of Winnie-the-Pooh by A. Milne in , the first Mary Poppins book by P. Travers in , The Hobbit by J.
Learn more about Amazon Prime. The Dumbing Down of Children's Literature". As professors, they had a scholarly interest in the stories, striving to preserve them and their variations accurately, recording their sources. Would you like to tell us about a lower price? Called the first European storybook to contain fairy-tales, it eventually had 75 separate stories and written for an adult audience. The University of Chicago Press. Not Enabled Screen Reader:
Children's paperback books were first released in England in under the Puffin Books imprint, and their lower prices helped make book buying possible for children during World War II. Enid Blyton 's books have been among the world's best-sellers since the s, selling more than million copies.
Blyton's books are still enormously popular, and have been translated into almost 90 languages. She wrote on a wide range of topics including education, natural history, fantasy, mystery, and biblical narratives and is best remembered today for her Noddy , The Famous Five , The Secret Seven , and The Adventure Series. In the s, the book market in Europe began recovering from the effects of two world wars. An informal literary discussion group associated with the English faculty at the University of Oxford, were the "Inklings".
Its leading members were the major fantasy novelists; C. Lewis published the first installment of The Chronicles of Narnia series in while Tolkien is best known in addition to The Hobbit as the author of The Lord of the Rings. The latter work is an adaptation of the myth of Blodeuwedd from the Mabinogion , set in modern Wales , and for it Garner won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association , recognising the year's best children's book by a British author.
Mary Norton wrote The Borrowers , featuring tiny people who borrow from humans. Philippa Pearce 's Tom's Midnight Garden has him opening the garden door at night and entering into a different age. The heroine of Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer is already shaken by her arrival in a girls' boarding school when she finds herself waking as another girl in the same bed, but decades earlier.
She needs urgent help from nearby children to hide her cat and kittens. Roald Dahl rose to prominence with his children's fantasy novels , often inspired from experiences from his childhood, with often unexpected endings, and unsentimental, dark humour.
Fox , The Witches , and Matilda Starting in , Michael Bond published humorous stories about Paddington Bear. Boarding schools in literature are centred on older pre-adolescent and adolescent school life, and are most commonly set in English boarding schools. Ruth Manning-Sanders collected and retold fairy tales , and her first work A Book of Giants contains a number of famous giants , notably Jack and the Beanstalk.
Raymond Briggs ' children's picture book The Snowman has been adapted as an animation, shown every Christmas on British television, and for the stage as a musical. Margery Sharp 's series The Rescuers is based on a heroic mouse organisation. Anthony Horowitz 's Alex Rider series begins with Stormbreaker Rowling 's Harry Potter fantasy series is a sequence of seven novels that chronicle the adventures of the adolescent wizard Harry Potter. The series began with Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in and ended with the seventh and final book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in ; becoming the best selling book-series in history.
The series has been translated into 67 languages, [46] [47] placing Rowling among the most translated authors in history. Adventure stories written specifically for children began in the 19th century. The Victorian era saw the development of the genre, with W. Henty specializing in the production of adventure fiction for boys. In the years after the First World War, writers such as Arthur Ransome — developed the adventure genre by setting the adventure in Britain rather than distant countries.
Ransome began publishing in his Swallows and Amazons series of children's books about the school-holiday adventures of children, mostly in the English Lake District and the Norfolk Broads. Many of the books involve sailing; fishing and camping are other common subjects. Biggles made his first appearance in the story The White Fokker , published in the first issue of Popular Flying magazine and again as part of the first collection of Biggles stories, The Camels Are Coming both Johns continued to write Biggles books until his death in , the series eventually spanning nearly a hundred volumes — including novels and short story collections — most of the latter with a common setting and time.
Geoffrey Trease and Rosemary Sutcliff [52] brought a new sophistication to the historical adventure novel. An important aspect of British children's literature has been comic books and magazines. Amongst the most popular comics have been The Dandy [53] and The Beano. Many prominent authors contributed to the Boys Own Paper: Ballantyne , as well as Robert Baden-Powell , the inspiration for the Scout Movement , Between —61 there was 60 issues with stories about Biggles by W.
Johns , [58] and in the s occasional contributors included Isaac Asimov and the respected astronomer Patrick Moore. Between —47 Captain W. Johns contributed sixty stories featuring the female pilot Worrals. The Eagle was a popular British comic for boys, launched in by Marcus Morris , an Anglican vicar from Lancashire.
Revolutionary in its presentation and content, it was enormously successful; the first issue sold about , copies. Eagle also contained news and sport sections, and educational cutaway diagrams of sophisticated machinery. Children's literature has been a part of American culture since Europeans first settled in America. The earliest books were used as tools to instill self-control in children and preach a life of morality in Puritan society.
It includes what is thought to be the earliest nursery rhyme and one of the earliest examples of a text book approaching education from the child's point of view, rather than the adult's. One of the most famous books of American children's literature is L. Children's reading rooms in libraries, staffed by specially trained librarians, helped create demand for classic juvenile books.
Reviews of children's releases began appearing regularly in Publishers Weekly and in The Bookman magazine began to regularly publish reviews of children's releases, and the first Children's Book Week was launched in In that same year, Louise Seaman Bechtel became the first person to head a juvenile book publishing department in the country. She was followed by May Massee in , and Alice Dalgliesh in The American Library Association began awarding the Newbery Medal , the first children's book award, in The young adult book market developed during this period, thanks to sports books by popular writer John R.
The already vigorous growth in children's books became a boom in the s, and children's publishing became big business. White published Charlotte's Web , which was described as "one of the very few books for young children that face, squarely, the subject of death".
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The s saw an age of new realism in children's books emerge. Given the atmosphere of social revolution in s America, authors and illustrators began to break previously established taboos in children's literature. Controversial subjects dealing with alcoholism, death, divorce, and child abuse were now being published in stories for children. Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are in and Louise Fitzhugh 's Harriet the Spy in are often considered the first stories published in this new age of realism.
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Taylor in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry continued the tradition of the historical adventure in an American setting. Laura Numeroff published If You Give a Mouse a Cookie in and went on to create a series of similarly named books that is still popular for children and adults to read together. Lloyd Alexander 's The Chronicles of Prydain was set in a fictionalized version of medieval Britain. Erik Werenskiold , Theodor Kittelsen , and Dikken Zwilgmeyer were especially popular, writing folk and fairy tales as well as realistic fiction. The translation into English by George Webbe Dasent helped increase the stories' influence.
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