Remembering Ezra Jack Keats and "The Snowy Day": What Makes a Children's Book Good?.

Mikkelsen, Nina

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ERIC Number: EJ397619

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Publication Date: 1989

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Remembering Ezra Jack Keats and "The Snowy Day": What Makes a Children's Book Good?

Mikkelsen, Nina

Language Arts, v66 n6 p608-24 Oct 1989

Examines characteristics of quality children's literature by analyzing both children and adult responses to Ezra Keats' story, "The Snowy Day." Concludes that good literature calls forth a strong narrative voice from readers exploring their own realities as they read. (MM)

Descriptors: Adults, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Reader Response, Reader Text Relationship, Young Children

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Non-Classroom

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Language: English

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