Research Catalog

Title

Towards understanding : children's literature for Southern Africa / editor, Isabel Cilliers = Op weg na begrip : kinderliteratuur vir Suider-Afrika / redaktrise, Isabel Cilliers.

Publication

Cape Town : Maskew Miller Longman, 1988.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cilliers, Isabel.
• University of the Western Cape.

Description

xix, 314 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"This collection of 33 essays by an international team of respected contributors reviews the present state of the genre, notes emergent trends, and sets out some worthy goals."

Alternative Title

Op weg na begrip.

Subject

• Children's literature, South African > History and criticism > Congresses
• Children > Books and reading > South Africa > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• English and Afrikaans.
• Papers from a symposium held July 1-4, 1987, at the University of the Western Cape.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introducing children to literature through storytelling / Ellin Greene (12 p.). -- Understanding Little red riding hood / Johan Degenaar (16 p.). -- Visual communication : the importance of children's literature / Joseph H Schwarcz (14 p.). -- Picture books for today's child / Ellin Greene (9 p.). -- Imagination--a philosophical analysis / Johan Degenaar (5 p.). -- Fantasie en verbeelding in die Afrikaanse kindervers / Etron Liebenberg (9 p.). -- Fiction and non-fiction : different perspectives on reality in children's books / Willemina Broeze (9 p.). -- Die wêreld is regtig rond / Elsabe Steenberg (3 p.). -- Towards interracial understanding through South African children's and youth literature / Andree-Jeanne Tötemeyer (9 p.).
• Bringing children and books together in libraries / Cedric Callaghan (5 p.). -- Creative activities in the library, media centre and classroom : practical suggestions / Renee Muller (6 p.). -- The book in the school / Rhona Dubow (4 p.). -- The use of subject literature as enrichment to the textbook and curriculum / Pamela Miller (6 p.). -- The many paths to reading in the home / Jay Heale (4 p.). -- Children's responses to literature / Andre N Lemmer (19 p.). -- Die onderwyser, die kind en die boek / Elsabe Steenberg (5 p.). -- A history of black writing for children in the USA / Lorenz Graham (8 p.). -- The black writer and South African literature / Richard Rive (12 p.).
• Die ontstaan van 'n kinderboek / Freda Linde (8 p.). -- Rondom die skryf van 'n kinderboek / Alba Bouwer (5 p.). -- The craft of writing for children / Jenny Seed (2 p.). -- Om vir kinders te skrywe / Rona Rupert (2 p.). -- Illustrating a picture book / Paddy Bouma (4 p.). -- Praktiese aspekte van kinderboekillustrasie / Alida Bothma (4 p.). -- An illustrator confides in her audience / Marjorie Van Heerden (8 p.). -- Prenteboek : faktore wat 'n rol speel by die uitgee daarvan / Alida Potgeiter (4 p.). -- Kinder-en jeugboeke : enkele riglyne by die beoordeling daarvan / Annari Van der Merwe (7 p.).
• Mediaverwerkings en aanpassing van kinderlektuur : die genre van die toekoms? / Magdaleen Bester (10 p.). -- Historiese oorsig oor die Afrikaanse kinderboek / Carl Lohann (6 p.). -- Children's literature in a post-apartheid society / Beverley Jansen (4 p.). -- Critical dimensions : reflections on the changing role of the importance of children's literature in South Africa / Benjamin L Leshoai (4 p.). -- Die kind binne en buite die boek / Zirkëa Ellis (6 p.). -- Voorgeskrewe boekseleksies binne die apartheidsparadigma / Jan Esterhuyse (12 p.). -- The racial element in American and British juvenile literature / Andree-Jeanne Tötemeyer (11 p.). -- Me Tarzan--you Jane : sex stereotyping in children's books / Hilda Grobler (16 p.). -- Volksliteratuur vir kinders / Pieter Grobbelaar (11 p.). -- The child and his spiritual needs : religious children's books / Maretha Maartens (8 p.). -- The availability of indigenous literature : the black child and his reading needs / Manana Nhlanhla (5 p.). -- Primêre behoeftes van tieners waarin hul boeke voorsien / Elsabe Steenberg (6 p.). -- Racism in children's fiction : towards the creation of non-racist books in South Africa / Andree-Jeanne Tötemeyer (8 p.). -- Ligotshwa Liseva / Emelda Damane (2 p.).

ISBN

0636010910

LCCN

^^^89161438^

OCLC

• 21522348
• SCSB-12702428

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library