Historical Fiction for Children

Capturing the Past

By: Fiona M. Collins (Editor), Judith Graham (Editor)

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Paperback | 26 October 2001 | Edition Number 1

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Historical fiction has a great deal to offer as its readers and devotees have always known. The time is ripe however for the historical novel and historical picture book to be promoted more emphatically so that many more are made aware of the delight and learning to be found in the genre. The editors of this book invited authors, academic writers and teachers to reflect on the nature, scope, range and richness of historical fiction for children. What is collected here provides an overview of the field, a consideration of significant writers of historical fiction from the nineteenth century onwards, a sense of the various historical eras commonly explored (Stone Age to World War 2), a discussion of commonly raised issues, themes and topics such as child labor, slavery and migration, and a forum for writers to reveal their insights into the writing of historical fiction. Julian Atterton, Berlie Doherty, Michael Foreman and Philip Pullman have made contributions. It provides evidence of children and students engaging creatively with historical fiction.

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Introduction
Contributors' biographies
Exploring the narrative past	p. 1
Dogs and cats: the nineteenth-century historical novel for children	p. 2
The twentieth century - giving everybody a history	p. 10
The silent ages: prehistory and Peter Dickinson	p. 23
A heavy-cavey business: language in historical fiction with particular reference to the novels of Joan Aiken and Leon Garfield	p. 32
'Time no longer' - history, enchantment and the classic time-slip story	p. 43
The historical picture book - is it a 'good thing'?	p. 54
Beyond expectations: historical fiction and working children	p. 64
Passage to America: migration and change	p. 73
Writing about the narrative past	p. 83
Waking quests	p. 84
'Over the stile and into the past': Children of Winter and other historical fiction	p. 90
Flesh on the bones	p. 97
Daddy, or serendipity	p. 102
History and time	p. 109
Teaching the narrative past	p. 119
Up and Down the City Road: history through dramatic action	p. 120
Stimulating the historical imagination: working with primary age children on books about the plague	p. 129
Getting under the skin: the EACH Project	p. 138
Slavery and the Underground Railroad: working with students	p. 150
Bibliography	p. 161
Index	p. 163
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