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:
- Children and Books
- How to Raise a Reader
- Children's Literature Gems: Choosing and Using Them in Your Library Career
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)