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There was a considerable gap of 21 years between the illustrated description of a specimen of the Sumatran Rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) by William Bell in 1793 and the proposal to accept it as a named new species by Gotthelf Fischer in 1814. In the meantime some 17 authors reported the possibility that the animal should be regarded as a new species. Hitherto overlooked, the German writer Friedrich Justin Bertuch used a new name in the caption to a reproduction of Bell's plate, as Rhinoceros bicornis Sumatricus. This was published in 1805 in a second edition of his "Bilderbuch für Kinder", a serial magazine aimed at young people. This work has an extremely complex bibliography through many re-issues and translations, which is only partly resolved. The same name in the combination Rhinoceros Sumatricus was included by Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm in a companion to the "Bilderbuch" available in 1808. The complicated circumstances of Bertuch's proposal in 1805 and his unusual usage of a trinomen lead to the suggestion that his book might not be consistently binominal, making the name unavailable. The naming by Wilhelm in 1808 is straightforward and correct, hence Rhinoceros sumatricus Wilhelm, 1808 is an available name and a senior objective synonym of Rhinoceros sumatrensis G. Fischer, 1814. The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature allows the suggestion that Wilhelm's name was a nomen oblitum (forgotten name). The various plates of the rhinoceros found in the "Bilderbuch" by Bertuch and the "Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte" are figured and explained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The literary creativity of I.Ya. Yakovlev is analyzed in this article. It's noted that his works harmoniously combine didactic and aesthetic features. In the history of the Chuvash literature I.Ya. Yakovlev became one of the founders of the Chuvash juvenile literature. His stories are distinguished by vivid imagery and language simplicity. The heroes of the works (people, animals, plants) are characters close to understanding, living next to young readers. The relevance of the study stems from the fact that the works of I.Ya. Yakovlev can be widely used in the moral and spiritual education of preschool and primary schoolers. In this regard, the purpose of this article was to focus attention on the fact that when analyzing the writer's stories, it is necessary to consider the Chuvash national mentality, didactic and aesthetic features at the same level. Only such an analysis contributes to a deeper understanding of the main idea of the work. The research subject is Ivan Yakovlev's short stories-miniatures and scientific research of Chuvash literary critics. As part of the study, the following results were obtained: folklore becomes a significant phenomenon in Yakovlev's stories, his work became the first step and the basis of the Chuvash juvenile literature.

Juvenile literature of “domestic abolitionism” seems to be one of the most interesting, yet under-researched branches of American abolitionist literature. Domestic abolitionist authors were usually women, who often published their texts anonymously or assuming pseudonyms. Diverse as they are in terms of genre, these texts share a set of common features. Among these features, according to Deborah De Rosa, is employment of three overarching images: the abolitionist mother-historian, the slave child, the white child. The mother-historian tells stories to foster “a change of hearts” of her young listeners, to inspire their empathy for their enslaved peers, and to engage them in the abolitionist cause. This paper focuses on semi-anonymous Sister Ruth’s Stories, or, Evenings with John Woolman (1865) — a domestic abolitionist text, which seems to have been overlooked in literary studies so far. Sister Ruth’s Stories are constructed as a sequence of evening conversations between Sister Ruth (“Motherhistorian”) and her younger siblings. The topic of these conversations is life of John Woolman (1720 –1772), a famous Quaker minister and proto-abolitionist. Sister Ruth retells children the plot of Woolman’s Journal, describing his personal campaign against slavery. She comments upon this autobiographical text, embellishing it with some additional sentimental scenes, biblical and poetical allusions. In Sister Ruth’s Stories, didacticism of domestic abolitionist literature seems to be counterbalanced by the multi-voice chorus of Ruth’s listeners, with their unfeigned reactions to the stories. As for revision of national history, which is also a substantial part of domestic abolitionist literature, it plays a pivotal role in the book, and yet appears moderate. Published in the last year of the Civil War, Sister Ruth’s Stories seem to embrace both abolitionist and pacifist messages of John Woolman’s Journal.

Grieving is an adaptive process in the face of the death of somebody close. Children grieve the loss of a family member or friend and need support from their caregivers and the professionals who care for them during this process. Failure to talk to children about the death of a family member or friend can lead to prolonged grief. Children's story books are one of the resources available for providing this type of support. To provide the nursing professional with information on story books aimed at children from 7 to 11 years of age as a tool to help them understand and cope with grief. A systematic integrative review was conducted. A search was performed in the ISBN database of the Ministry of Culture and the University Libraries Network. Data extraction was performed by two coders using a protocol registered in PROSPERO. Fifty-six books met the inclusion criteria. Twenty-five percent of the deceased characters were grandparents and 30.4% died due to illness. The most frequent emotion was sadness, (43.3%) and the most repeated coping strategy was remembering the deceased person, (28.7%). The grieving process was depicted in 32.1% of the selected stories. The children's books reviewed support understanding and coping with grief. However, some limitations were detected, and therefore it is advisable to accompany the child while reading these books to discuss aspects that have not been addressed. • Many children's story books deal with death as a central theme. • All of the books analyzed contain elements that facilitate the understanding of death. • Not all of the books analyzed reflect the grieving process. • The word "grieving" is not mentioned in any of the books analyzed. • Story books can be used to facilitate a dialogue about death. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Female under-representation has been under scrutiny since the start of feminist movement. Women have been suppressed in all domains of human life, be it real or reel, they have been shown as having no significance. In literature, patriarchal prejudice is prevalent there both in direct and indirect forms. It is also observed that a tendency towards equal representation of genders has also come to work to counter that oppressive patriarchal discourses. In the study, we have selected CBT publication entitled as Short Stories for Children published in India. The collection consists of 17 stories for kids written by different writers for the entertainment of children. This paper discusses gender stereotypes, i.e. how females and males have been portrayed, their representation in titles, as central and side characters, their roles and activities, gender segregation, and some counter tendencies such as equal gender roles have been analysed. Such deconstruction helps Asian educationists understand the penetrating pervasive gender biased representation with its different forms and discursive levels which is impinging on the juvenile minds by normalizing this phenomenon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This case study focuses on the Education Library's plan to diversify its children's and young adult literature collection. After a large renovation, the author created a collection development plan for this collection with the goal to create a diverse and inclusive collection. This article will detail the process of creating the plan and the beginning of implementation. Phase 1 focused on the addition of immigrant and refugee stories, bilingual books, and graphic novels. The emphasis of Phase 2 has been on improving the metadata of award books and purchasing books with Black, Indigenous, and People of Color main characters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In early 1864, Civil War correspondent Thomas W. Knox nearly gave his life for a brave experiment to prove the labor of freedmen could be just as profitable as that of slaves on a cotton farm. Ironically, in the years that followed, Knox traveled the world writing guidebooks for boys that served to teach all the ways the developing world was inferior to American culture, and sought to indoctrinate young American readers into their role as colonizers. What appear initially to be a correspondent's enlightened, forward-thinking attitudes turn out to be deeply problematic in ways that raise profound questions about the American discourse on race. For the past thirty years, postcolonial studies have moved into "low," popular literature. This study attempts to push the field into a new direction: the examination of American correspondents beyond canonical figures like Mark Twain, Richard Harding Davis, Jack London, and Stephen Crane. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article explores the radical possibilities of children’s literature for adults, using as a case study The Inner City Mother Goose, a book of poetry for adults written by Eve Merriam and published, with “visuals” by Lawrence Ratzkin, in 1969. As one of the most frequently banned books of the 1970s, a period in which children’s literature and childhood itself saw dramatic changes, The Inner City Mother Goose is a good representative of the children’s book for adults, suggesting the ways in which parody, satire, and formal conventions of genres typically associated with children’s reading (nursery rhymes, abecedaries, board books, picture books, etc.) can function as aesthetic and formal cues that call the boundaries of adulthood and childhood into question to humorous but also, at times, politically radical effect. In the slippage between audiences, especially as children mischievously embrace texts that invite young people in while implicitly or explicitly excluding them, children not only gain access to ostensibly forbidden knowledge but also gain insight into adult hypocrisy. Most importantly, they gain an incentive to act independently and autonomously so as to eliminate contradictions between the “truths” and values they have been taught and those they have discovered by reading a children’s book that was ostensibly not intended for children.

Lists such as I Children's Literature in Opera i by [2] focused on children's literature that inspired operas, and opera books are periodically included in general children's literature collection development guides such as Wilson's Core Collection and Sutherland's I The Best in Children's Books: The University of Chicago Guide to Children's Literature i ([19]). Comparable reading lists/bibliographies proved to be few and far between.; [8] al. created a list of children's books intended for primary school educators ([8]) and included opera books as a subset of general musical works for children and [1] read opera stories to children and then created her own opera-focused children's book manuscripts based on those. This meant in-person visits to the Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton University, New York Public Library's Schwartzman Branch and its Performing Arts Library, the Library of Congress, Brooklyn Public Library, Queens Public Library, and the Washington, D.C. Public Library. Our discussion also led us to consider that our list could be used by teachers to support opera instruction in the classroom, especially given the Carnegie Whitney program's focus on bibliographies "useful to America's Libraries", and so we made a decision to include works that were not specifically children's literature, but which have been classified as such by libraries, and which were instructional or informative nonfiction. Keywords: opera; children's literature; music education; bibliography; juvenile literature EN opera children's literature music education bibliography juvenile literature 54 75 22 10/07/21 20200401 NES 200401 This article discusses the findings resulting from the creation of a comprehensive bibliography of English Language children's opera books published from 1895 to 2015. [Extracted from the article]

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We are celebrating, in 2016, the 500 anniversary of Utopia. What the present reflections want to emphasize is the importance of the utopian thought in juvenile literature. So, Norton Juster (The Phantom Tollbooth), Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass) and L. Frank Baum (The Wizard of Oz), as well as Tolkien, come along together, with their unforgettable characters, between words that have extraordinary meanings and actions that have no sense at all. At least, that is what it seems. But then, between the world of fantasy literature and the real world there are bridges we must cross, because the role of this very special rhetoric is absolutely essential. Utopia and dystopia, as part of the past, the present and the future, are inseparable from human imagination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Resumen: El bildungsroman es un género narrativo que se caracteriza por presentar una evolución en el personaje protagonista a lo largo de sus páginas. También es conocido como novela de formación o novela de aprendizaje. El autor del artículo considera que se trataría del más genuino género narrativo aplicado a la literatura juvenil porque en la adolescencia tiene lugar en la persona una profunda transformación que posibilita la identificación entre el lector y el personaje.Abstract: A bildungsroman is a literary genre characterized by the evolution of the main character throughout its pages. It is also known as novel of formation or coming-of-age novel. The author of this article believes that it would be the most authentic genre used in Young-Adult fiction, as it is during the adolescence when the deep transformation that allows the identification between the reader and the character takes place.

O estudo analisou como uma história infantil, contendo questões relacionadas à Síndrome da Imunodeficiência Adquirida, contribui para a compreensão do processo saúde-doença pela criança com o Vírus da Imunodeficiência Humana. Foi realizado, em Porto Alegre, RS, entre maio e dezembro de 2011. Participaram cinco crianças, com idades entre sete e nove anos, e seus cuidadores. Utilizou-se grupo focal e entrevista, e os dados foram submetidos à análise temática de conteúdo. Emergiram duas categorias: Identificação com a história e a relação com o processo saúde-doença e Compreensão da história e do processo saúde-doença. Os resultados demonstraram que a história infantil é um recurso para conversar com as crianças sobre o processo saúde-doença sem revelar o diagnóstico, levando a uma compreensão de si e do tratamento. Considera-se que esse recurso pode ser uma estratégia para auxiliar os cuidadores e profissionais da saúde a iniciar o processo de revelação do diagnóstico.El estudio analizó cómo el cuento infantil con cuestiones sobre el SIDA contribuye a la comprensión del proceso salud-enfermedad por el niño con VIH. Fue realizado en clínica pediátrica de Porto Alegre/RS, de mayo a diciembre de 2011. Participaron cinco niños entre siete y nueve años y sus cuidadores. Los datos fueran recogidos en grupo focal y entrevista y analizados por medio del análisis temático de contenido. Emergieron dos categorías: La identificación con la historia y la relación con el proceso salud-enfermedad; y La comprensión de la historia y del proceso salud-enfermedad. Los resultados demostraron que el cuento infantil es un recurso para hablar con niños sobre el proceso salud-enfermedad, sin revelar el diagnóstico, llevándolos a una comprensión de su situación y la importancia del tratamiento. Consideramos que ese recurso puede ser una estrategia para ayudar a cuidadores y a profesionales de salud para iniciar el proceso de revelación.This study analyzed how a story for children related to AIDS contributed to the understanding of the health-disease process of children with HIV. It was conducted at the Pediatric Clinic in Porto Alegre/RS from May to December 2011. The participants were five children aged between seven and nine years and their caregivers. The data were collected by a focal group through interviews and submitted to thematic content analysis. Two categories were found: identification with the story, relationship with the health-disease process, understanding of the story, and the health-disease process. The results demonstrated that stories for children are resources to talk about the health-disease process with children without revealing the diagnosis, leading them to understand their situation and the importance of treatment. We considered that this resource may be a strategy to help the caregivers and health professionals to initiate the process of revelation of diagnosis.

The article attempts to present and discuss the juvenile works of Gustave Flaubert. Though the writer never allowed these juvenile works to be published, being extremely critical of their aesthetic value, the works such as November, Memoirs of a Madman or the diary-form Cahier intime de 1840–1841 still make important texts that provide a sizeable amount of information on the writer’s literary workshop. Interestingly enough, these early works show the writer’s attachment to the manuscript (tantamount to the dislike to the written word) and the author’s tools (pen, ink and paper). These juvenile attempts, in the main autobiographical in nature, are thus penetrated by the metatext element that is a key input in providing an opportunity for a reflection on the way the text itself does exist: this element also informs us on Flaubert’s growing maturity that ultimately defined his role of a fully-fledged author. The paratext elements (epigraphs, dedications, inscriptions, dates and signatures) in his juvenile works seem to be just as important as they allow us to follow, step by step, the way to the birth of a writer-manuscript and thus a writer who gets his fulfillment and the very existence exclusively in a text of a manuscript character.

Based on the series Poderosa, by Sergio Klein (Sao Paulo: Fundamento), this work analyses the representation of the adolescent in the personage-heroine, Joana Dalva, who has the power of changing daily events by re-writing them. The study begins with the polarity Apollo/Dionysus, as conceived by Friedrich Nietzche. It begins to present the series within its graphic context showing how it contributes to an identification between text and reader; following the protagonist in a relation with the remaining narrative elements, reflecting about the way she uses her power and its meaning while metaphor of the psychic and body-sensual conflicts, caused by typical age changes. The work also includes a brief historical overview of youth, from the relations of his body with the collective or socio-cultural body, between the young individual body and the social body, which helps placing Klein’s piece in post-modernity and confirms it as a sign of an Apollonius vision of adolescence by contemporary society. To conclude, and based on reports obtained from a quick interview with some librarians from Porto Alegre and other cities in Rio Grande do Sul State, I place the Series in the literary system and try to discover the causes of its success among its young readers.

This article describes a project to promote an approval plan for purchasing award-winning juvenile books. The overall project utilizes a combination of projects for promoting awareness and use of the awards books and the juvenile collection in general. The promotion plan includes collaborative work with teacher education faculty, projects to increase the visibility of the juvenile collection in the library, and projects to improve the findability of the juvenile books via the online catalog and an online subject guide. Initial assessment of the plan indicates some success with increased book circulation and increased use of the online guide. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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