Children's Literature

ELM323

Introduces children’s literature currently available for young children and the role the literature plays in the child’s literacy development. The future teacher will be equipped with knowledge and skills to select appropriate literature and strategies to implement activities that support these selections in the classroom. Six clock hours of observations are required. *Cannot be taken until the student has been formally admitted to the Teacher Education Program (successfully completed TESA 1, 2, and 3).

OVERVIEW:

Children’s literature, the body of written works and accompanying illustrations produced in order to entertain or instruct young people. The genre encompasses a wide range of works, including acknowledged classics of world literature, picture books and easy-to-read stories written exclusively for children, and fairy tales, lullabies, fables, folk songs, and other primarily orally transmitted materials. – britannica.com/art/childrens-literature

NEWBERRY & CALDECOTT COLLECTION:

Located in the stack room outside of the computer lab. Currently the award winners in each category for the past 25 years.

SEARCH TIPS:

Subjects: Children Literature; Children Books; Children Reading; Children Stories; Juvenile Literature; Juvenile Fiction; Picture Book; Storytelling
Dewey Classifications: [E] identifies easy read literature up to grade 3 or age 8; [Fic] identifies literature appropriate above grade 3 or age 8.

AWARDS: (the best in Children's Literature)

Newberry Medal
Caldecott Medal
Golden Kite Award
Sibert Medal
Theodor Seuss Giesel Award
Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal
Batchelder Award
Coretta Scott King Award
Belpre Medal
National Book Award (look under Young People's Literature)
Orbis Pictus Award

LISTS: (from Wikipedia: Children's Literature)

REFERENCE:

Credo Reference - (be sure to check out the topic page and mind map)
Children's Literature - (ProQuest Genre Pages)
Wikipedia - (good introduction with many links to sub-topics and related literature/concepts)
Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
Oxford's Companion to Children's Literature

RELEVANT DATABASES:

Education Database
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)
Research Companion
eLibrary Curriculum Edition
SIRS Discoverer
Learning: Literature
LION (Literature Online)

FEATURED WORKS:

WEBSITES:

Children's Literature
DAWL (database of award winning literature)
ASLC (Association for Library Services to Children)
International Children's Digital Library – (Repository of 2,827 children's books in 48 languages viewable over the Internet)
Digitized Children's Literature – (Library of Congress)
University of South Florida Libraries: Children's Literature Collection – (USF's digital collection currently houses 25,000 titles of American fiction from 1870 to the present. This is a growing collection, and more titles will be added over time.)
Baldwin Digital Library of Children's Literature
Children's eTexts – (Project Gutenberg)
Historic Children's Book Collection – (Ball State University, Indiana – online access to children's books from the 20th and 19th centuries)
Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books – (Toronto Public Library)

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