Seedlings
Subtitle: English children's reading & writers in South Africa
By: Elwyn Jenkins
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Unisa Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Pretoria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781868886524
Subjects: Children's literature, South African (English); Books and reading; History and criticism; In literature; Children
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-221) and index.
Table of contents: title: Sharing our stories : South African children's literature in English; title: Reading outside the lines : peritext and authenticity in South African English children's books; title: San tales; title: again; title: Lessons from the honey-guide; title: Charles Rawden Maclean, Baden-Powell, and Dinuzulu's beads; title: Two English writers in South Africa : J.R.R. Tolkien and Rudyard Kipling; title: The chronicles of Peach Grove Farm : an early South African children's book by Nellie Fincher; title: Is Pauline Smith's Platkops children a children's book?; title: The fall from grace of Kingsley Fairbridge; title: Cigarette card albums and patriotism; title: Cecil Shirley, author and illustrator of Little veld folk; title: "Some far siding" : South African English children's verse int he first half of the twentieth century; title: Cross-cultural misreadings : MacCann and Maddy's Apartheid and racism revisited (co-authored with Elizabeth Muther); title: Memories of social transition in Southern Africa : Unity Dow and Kagiso Lesego Molope; title: Visual design in collections of writing in English by South African children; title: Refugee stories : The suitcase stories and I am an African; title: Sources for research in South African children's literature in English; title: A survey of research in South African children's literature.