Telling Childrens Stories by Michael Cadden PAPERBACK 9780803215689

Telling Children's StoriesNarrative Theory and Children's Literature\nAuthor(s): Michael Cadden\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9780803215689, 978-0803215689\nSynopsis\nThe most accessible approach yet to children's literature and narrative theory, Telling Children's Stories is a comprehensive collection of never-before-published essays by an international slate of scholars that offers a broad yet in-depth assessment of narrative strategies unique to children's [url] volume is divided into four interrelated sections: \""Genre Templates and Transformations,\"" \""Approaches to the Picture Book,\"" \""Narrators and Implied Readers,\"" and \""Narrative Time.\"" Mike Cadden's introduction considers the links between the various essays and topics, as well as their connections with such issues as metafiction, narrative ethics, focalization, and plotting. Ranging in focus from picture books to novels such as.