Week 3 英文兒童文學

Pro- in favor of, many ,much 

prolific
[pruh-lif-ik]  Spell Syllables
Synonyms Examples Word Origin
adjective
1.
producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful:
a prolific pear tree.
2.
producing in large quantities or with great frequency; highly productive:
a prolific writer.
3.
profusely productive or fruitful (often followed by in or of):
a bequest prolific of litigations.
4.
characterized by abundant production:
a prolific year for tomatoes.

protagonist
[proh-tag-uh-nist]  Spell Syllables
Examples Word Origin
noun
1.
the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
2.
a proponent for or advocate of a political cause, social program, etc.
3.
the leader or principal person in a movement, cause, etc.
4.
the first actor in ancient Greek drama, who played not only the main role, but also other roles when the main character was offstage.
Compare deuteragonist, tritagonist.
5.
Physiology, agonist.


proliferation
[pruh-lif-uh-rey-shuh n]  Spell  Syllables
Examples Word Origin
noun
1.
the growth or production of cells by multiplication of parts.
2.
a rapid and often excessive spread or increase:
nuclear proliferation.

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Promise v. n. a promise is supposed to be kept
Keep, break, make a promise

E. B. White


Elwyn Brooks "E. B." White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985)[1] was an American writer. He was a contributor to The New Yorker magazine and a co-author of the English language style guide The Elements of Style, which is commonly known as "Strunk & White". He also wrote books for children, including Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan. Charlotte's Web was voted the top children's novel in a 2012 survey of School Library Journal readers, not for the first time.[2]

Barn Spider


Araneus cavaticus, commonly known as the barn spider, is a common orb-weaver spider native to North America. They are around three quarters of an inch in length and are usually yellow and brown in color. They mostly construct their webs in wooden human structures, hence their common name. The species is notable for being the basis for the character Charlotte in the book Charlotte's Web by American writer E. B. White.

Week 2 英文兒童文學

Winnie-the-Pooh

 "Pooh" and "Hunny" redirect here. For other meanings, see Poo. For the food, see Honey.

Winnie-the-Pooh, also called Pooh Bear, is a fictional anthropomorphic teddy bear created by A. A. Milne. The first collection of stories about the character was the book Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), and this was followed by The House at Pooh Corner (1928). Milne also included a poem about the bear in the children's verse book When We Were Very Young (1924) and many more in Now We Are Six (1927). All four volumes were illustrated by E. H. Shepard. Hyphens in the character's name were dropped by Disney when the company adapted the Pooh stories into a series of features that became one of its most successful franchises

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Winnie the pooh
Eeyore
Tigger
Piglet
Rabbit
Kanga and Roo
Owl
Gopher

Week 1 英文兒童文學

Intro to American Literature - Youtube

Fairy Tale - Fantasy ( magic, supernatural, imaginary )
A fairy tale (pronounced /ˈfeəriˌteɪl/) is a type of short story that typically features European folkloric fantasy characters, such as dwarves, elves, fairies, giants, gnomes,goblins, mermaids, trolls, or witches, and usually magic or enchantments. Fairy tales may be distinguished from other folk narratives such as legends (which generally involve belief in the veracity of the events described) and explicitly moral tales, including beast fables.

Miss Potter

Miss Potter is a 2006 film directed by Chris Noonan. It is a biographical film of children's author and illustrator Beatrix Potter, and combines stories from her own life with animated sequences featuring characters from her stories, such as Peter Rabbit.

Scripted by Richard Maltby, Jr., the director of the Tony-winning Broadway revue, Fosse, the film stars Renée Zellweger in the title role; Ewan McGregor as her publisher and fiancé, Norman Warne; and Lloyd Owen as solicitor William Heelis. Emily Watson stars as Warne's sister, Millie. Lucy Boynton also stars as the young Beatrix Potter.

It was filmed in Cecil Court, Osterley Park, Covent Garden, the Isle of Man, Scotland and the Lake District. Miss Potter was released on 29 December 2006 so that the film could compete for the 2007 Academy Awards. The film was intended to be released generally on 12 January 2007, but Variety.com reported that the Weinstein Company had decided to push a wider release date until after the Academy Awards on 25 February 2007. The date seemed to fluctuate a number of times, but the Weinstein Company website ultimately listed its release date as 9 March.

The film received generally positive reviews and earned Zellweger her sixth Golden Globe nomination.

didactic

dɪˈdaktɪk,dʌɪ-/Submit
adjective
intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive.
"a didactic novel that set out to expose social injustice"
synonyms: instructive, instructional, educational, educative, informative, informational, doctrinal, preceptive, teaching, pedagogic, academic, scholastic, tuitional; More
in the manner of a teacher, particularly so as to appear patronizing.
"his tone ranged from didactic to backslapping"

Nursery rhyme

A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for young children in Britain and many other countries, but usage only dates from the late 18th/early 19th century and in North America the term Mother Goose Rhymes, introduced in the mid-1700s, is still often used.

"Old King Cole"

"Old King Cole" is a British nursery rhyme most likely deriving from ancient Welsh. The historical identity of King Cole has been much debated and several candidates have been advanced as possibilities. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 1164. The poem describes a merry king who called for his pipe, his bowl, and his threefiddlers.

Charles Perrault 

Charles Perrault (12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was a French author and member of the Académie française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from pre-existing folk tales. The best known of his tales include Le Petit Chaperon rouge (Little Red Riding Hood), Cendrillon (Cinderella), Le Chat Botté (Puss in Boots), La Belle au bois dormant (The Sleeping Beauty) and La Barbe bleue (Bluebeard).[1] Many of Perrault's stories, which were rewritten by the Brothers Grimm, continue to be printed and have been adapted to opera, ballet (such as Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty), theatre, and film. Perrault was an influential figure in the 17th-century French literary scene, and was the leader of the Modern faction during the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns.
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Bildungsroman 

In literary criticism, a Bildungsroman (German pronunciation: [ˈbɪldʊŋs.ʁoˌmaːn]; German: "novel of formation/education/culture"),[a] novel of formation, novel of education, or coming-of-age story (though it may also be known as a subset of the coming-of-age story) is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood (coming of age), and in which, therefore, character change is extremely important.