The Moonbeam Children's Book Awards
Canadian Children's Book Centre Awards
Connecticut Nutmeg Children's Book Award
Florida - Sunshine State Young Readers Award
Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
Illinois Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award
Kansas William Allen White Children's Book Awards
Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Awards
Massachusetts Children's Book Award
Minnesota Maud Hart Lovelace Award
Missouri Show Me Readers Award
National Book Award for Young People's Literature
New Hampshire Great Stone Face Book Award
New Jersey Garden State Children's Book Awards
New Mexico Land of Enchantment Book Award
New York State Charlotte Award
New-York Historical Society Children's History Book Prize
Ohio Buckeye Children's Book Award
Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Book Awards
Pacific Northwest Library Association's Young Reader's Choice Award
Royal Society Young People's Book Prize
Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction
Stonewall Children's & Young Adult Literature Award
Tennessee Volunteer State Book Awards
Gazing out her window, a girl imagines being swept away on the river she sees, into a series of interesting and adventurous landscapes. As they recreate an imaginative journey, Martin’s immersive gouache and watercolor paintings find complex and beautiful patterns everywhere, documenting the meandering splendor of a river as well as the striking variety of environments humans have created. (The Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2017, New York Times, November 2, 217)
A girl named Paulina takes up boxing so she can beat her older brothers at arm wrestling and free herself of the household chores they assign her when she loses. With its bold colors and vivacious lines, Courgeon’s stylish, poster-like art is full of small, exquisite details that reveal poignant aspects of Paulina’s story, creating a deep emotional connection with a heroine who’s a fighter in more than one sense. (The Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2017, New York Times, November 2, 2017)
The many animals in Frida Kahlo’s life — among them a fawn, a cat and two spider monkeys — were an important part of her art, and this book traces her relationships with her menagerie over the course of her life. With their folk-art sensibility, Parra’s elegant acrylic paintings evoke Kahlo’s style, her palette and her Mexican environment, but he creates a mood of harmony with the natural world and a lively, cheerful abundance all his own. (The Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2017, New York Times, November 2, 2017)
Starting life in a new country much colder and darker than his homeland, an Italian boy is forlorn until he meets an older man who keeps and races pigeons, helping him bridge his old and new worlds. With soft and smudgy yet deliberate mixed-media art that seems at once modern and timeless, Carlin’s warm, nostalgic images find a surprising visual connection between a northern mining region and a sunny southern land. (The Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2017, New York Times, November 2, 2017)
Born McKinley Morganfield, the great bluesman Muddy Waters went from a poor Mississippi Delta childhood to the center of the Chicago music scene. Shifting his color palette for each setting of Muddy’s life, Turk captures the legendary musician’s proud originality with his own dazzling virtuosity on the page, incorporating materials including old newspaper clippings, printer’s ink and paint. (The Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2017, New York Times, November 2, 2017)
On a rainy weekend in the countryside — with no electronic devices allowed — a young girl feels irritated until she steps outside and into the deep satisfactions of time spent in nature. Alemagna’s dense and textured illustrations feature exuberant pops of color, capturing the natural world’s immensity and creating a multilayered mood that allows for both introspection and wild flights of joy. (The Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2017, New York Times, November 2, 2017)
A cat named Plume stalks this compendium of birds, each page a careful study of one species and the details of its feathers. Elegant and playful, Simler’s meticulous digital renderings of birds and their plumage invite close inspection, offering as well a chance to figure out where the cat is lurking within the clever composition of each page. (The Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2017, New York Times, November 2, 2017)
The life of the Supreme Court justice is a story of a girl who overcame the overt and covert sexism of her time to follow her drive to fight for equality. Innerst uses paint, ink and collaged elements like notebook paper to create a playful yet magisterial documentary effect, bringing subtle emotion to carefully composed scenes that resonate with the humane, controlled power of R.B.G. herself. (The Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2017,
A sleepy little bunny is carried home through the city by her parents, ending up safe in her own bed. With their cinematic feel and charmingly anthropomorphic animals, Miyakoshi’s pencil and charcoal drawings capture the ever-changing delights of nighttime city life while evoking almost physical feelings of comfort, support and family love. (The Best Illustrated Children Books of 2017, New York Times, Nov. 2, 2017)
A young boy watches his father leave for the mines each day, knowing that one day he too will leave the pleasures of his seaside home to toil in the darkness. In brown, gray and black leavened by soft yellows and blues, Smith’s ardent paintings capture the brilliance of the sun on the sea and the smudgy darkness of a mine with equal intensity, creating an exquisitely personal feeling of the movement of time and history. (The Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2017, New York Times, Nov. 2, 2017)
Once Upon a Time: A Brief History of Children's Literature
April 2 is International Children’s Book Day and the anniversary of the birth of one of the most famous contributors to this genre, Hans Christian Andersen. But when Andersen wrote his works, the genre of children’s literature was not an established field as we recognise today.
Adults have been writing for children (a broad definition of what we might call children’s literature) in many forms for centuries. Little of it looks much fun to us now. Works aimed at children were primarily concerned with their moral and spiritual progress. Medieval children were taught to read on parchment-covered wooden tablets containing the alphabet and a basic prayer, usually the Pater Noster. Later versions are known as “hornbooks”, because they were covered by a protective sheet of transparent horn.
Children's Literature
Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are enjoyed by children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader.
Children's literature can be traced to stories and songs, part of a wider oral tradition, that adults shared with children before publishing existed. The development of early children's literature, before printing was invented, is difficult to trace. Even after printing became widespread, many classic "children's" tales were originally created for adults and later adapted for a younger audience. Since the 15th century, a large quantity of literature, often with a moral or religious message, has been aimed specifically at children. The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries became known as the "Golden Age of Children's Literature" as this period included the publication of many books acknowledged today as classics.
The Origins of Children's Literature
By the end of the 18th century, children’s literature was a flourishing, separate and secure part of the publishing industry in Britain. Perhaps as many as 50 children’s books were being printed each year, mostly in London, but also in regional centres such as Edinburgh, York and Newcastle. By today’s standards, these books can seem pretty dry, and they were often very moralising and pious. But the books were clearly meant to please their readers, whether with entertaining stories and appealing characters, the pleasant tone of the writing, or attractive illustrations and eye-catching page layouts and bindings.
To Instruct and Delight: A History of Children's Literature
As a term, “children’s literature” does not easily fit into any cultural or academic category; rather, it is a diverse and paradoxical area of study. Its richness is reflected in the vast amount of theories that permeate and surround the term. From feminist studies to new historicism, literary theory places the child/text/context relationship on varying ideological and political axes. The reconceptualization of its history and the postmodern growth of radical alternative literary “histories” further complicate a retelling of the history of children’s literature. Consequently, it becomes not only a difficult but also a contentious task to both identify general features that constitute children’s literature and trace its history. But it is because its boundaries are so ambiguous that children’s literature is so exciting and rich.
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.
Children’s literature first clearly emerged as a distinct and independent form of literature in the second half of the 18th century, before which it had been at best only in an embryonic stage. During the 20th century, however, its growth has been so luxuriant as to make defensible its claim to be regarded with the respect—though perhaps not the solemnity—that is due any other recognized branch of literature.
Fostering a love of reading in a child is essential for a well-rounded education — and Dover can help with hundreds of works of classic and contemporary children's literature. We offer low-priced editions of timeless tales by such popular children's authors as Thornton W. Burgess, Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and others, including the gripping historical adventures of G. A. Henty. We also publish a magical variety of anthologies that gather the very best fairy tales from Africa, America, China, England, Greece, Ireland, and other countries, including the works of the Brothers Grimm and Andrew Lang.
Scholastic Parent & Child 100 Greatest Books for Kids
Our 100 Greatest Books for Kids list spans a variety of ages and genres, so there’s something for everyone. Print out this checklist and make it yours: Mark the books you’ve shared with your children or they have read, star family favorites, and highlight titles you’re looking forward to bringing home from the library or bookstore
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Time The 100 Best Children's Books of All Time
We’re living in a golden age of young-adult literature, when books ostensibly written for teens are equally adored by readers of every generation. In the likes of Harry Potter and Katniss Everdeen, they’ve produced characters and conceits that have become the currency of our pop-culture discourse—and inspired some of our best writers to contribute to the genre. To honor the best books for young adults and children, TIME compiled this survey in consultation with respected peers such as U.S. Children’s Poet Laureate Kenn Nesbitt, children’s-book historian Leonard Marcus, the National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature, the Young Readers Center at the Library of Congress, the Every Child a Reader literacy foundation and 10 independent booksellers. With their help, we’ve created two all-time lists of classics: 100 Best Young-Adult Books and 100 Best Children’s Books. Vote for your favorite in the poll below.
Here is a list of one hundred books selected by the National Education Association in 1999 as great reading for children and young people. To help make these books more useful, we have added book and author links to any TeachersFirst resources and lesson ideas. For more reading ideas - including books grouped by theme and grade level - check out the hundreds of titles in our Suggested Reading section. You can see NEA's online survey of best books from 2007 here. TeachersFirst includes the most recent publications in our monthly TogetheRead themes on our companion site, TeachersAndFamilies. Don't miss these opportunities to promote literacy as a family activity!
Young adult fiction (YA) is a category of fiction generally published for readers in their youth although titles appeal to readers of all ages. YA books are catered towards children between 12 to 20 years old. While the genre is targeted to teenagers, approximately half of YA readers are adults. In recent years, diversity has become a defining feature of young adult novels.
Bethune-Cookman University's Carl S. Swisher Library maintains a collection of Young Adult and Children Literature in its Juvenile Collection on the second floor. There are Big Books as well as picture books, and a host of encyclopedias, dictionaries, and reference books within the collection.
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Essentials of Children's Literature by Other references include National Reading Panel findings, relevant topics in Language Arts (NCTE), and Reading Teacher (IRA) publications, relevant to course topics including teaching reading to English Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) and numerous Software, Videos, and Websites such as the following:
CHILDREN’S LITERATURE WEBSITES:
This course develops an understanding of the role of children's literature in the cognitive, language, and social development of elementary children. Students will read widely and design literary experiences in children’s and young adolescent literature, including picture books, fantasy, historical fiction, poetry, contemporary realistic fiction, and multicultural literature. Students in this course will understand the role of children’s literature in the elementary curriculum.
PSLO 1. Students who desire to earn a degree in education and who seek to receive a teaching certificate offered at Bethune-Cookman University will demonstrate mastery of the Florida Educator Accomplished Practices in simulated teaching environments in early field experiences and student teaching internship experiences by obtaining a minimum score of 80% on the rubric evaluation of the professional portfolio and a passing score on the appropriate Florida Teacher Certification Examination tests.
PSLO 2. Students who desire to earn a degree in education and who seek to receive a teaching certificate in Elementary Education offered at Bethune-Cookman University will demonstrate mastery of the language arts competencies that are appropriate for the certification.
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Bedford, A., & Albright, L. (Eds.) (2011). A master class in children’s literature: Trends and issues. Urbana, IL: NCTE. Each chapter focuses on a contemporary issue in children’s literature and provides suggestions, strategies, and resources.
Burleigh, R. (2009). One giant leap. Illustrated by M. Wimmer. New York. New York: Philomel.
Cronin, D. (2007). The diary of a fly. Illustrated by H. Bliss. New York: Joanna Cotler Books.
Floca, B. (2009). Moonshot: The flight of Apollo 11. New York: Atheneum.
Grenby, M.O., and Andrea Immel, Eds. Cambridge Companion to Children’s Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Lehman, B., Freeman, E., & Scharer, O. 2010. Reading globally, K-8. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.
The use of global literature across subject areas with numerous examples of outstanding books and teaching strategies.
Leland, C. (2012). Teaching children’s literature: It’s critical. New York, NY: Routledge.
Practical strategies for a critical approach to engaging children with literature in ways that build from children’s lives and cultural knowledge to question the world, explore power relationships, and consider actions to promote social justice.
Mickenberg, Julia, and Lynne Vallone, Eds. The Oxford Handbook of Children’s Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Naidoo, J.C. (Ed.) (2010). Celebrating cuentos: Promoting Latino children’s literature and literacy in classrooms and libraries. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited.
Strategies and research on integrating Latino children’s literature into classrooms and libraries, interviews with Latino authors and illustrators, and information on evaluating and selecting quality Latino literature.
Nel, Philip, and Lissa Paul, eds. Keywords for Children’s Literature. New York: New York University Press, 2011.
Pavonetti, L. (Ed) (2011). Bridges to understanding: Envisioning the world through children’s books. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow.
A guide to international children’s books published in the United States from 2005-2010, with descriptions of 700 books from more than 70 countries in an annotated bibliography.
Reynolds, Kimberley, and M.O. Grenby, EdS. Children’s Literature Studies: A Research Handbook. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Rudd, David. Routledge Companion to Children’s Literature. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2010.
Ungerer, T. (2009). Moon man. London: Phaidon.
Wolf, Shelby, Karen Coats, Patricia A. Enciso, and Christine Jenkins, EdS. Handbook of Research on Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2011.