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Download full textVarga-Dobai, Kinga – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2008
Two-time Caldecott Honor winner (Free Fall, Sector 7) and three-time Caldecott Medal winner (Tuesday, The Three Pigs, Flotsam), David Wiesner is regarded as one of the most remarkable creators of visual storytelling living today. Wiesner is well known for his innovative and unique subject matter and his sophisticated painting-like illustrations…
Descriptors: Interviews, Story Telling, Visual Learning, Authors
Fryatt, Norma R. – Horn Book Magazine, 1986
Recommends Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel, which first appeared in l923. (FL)
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature, Females, Literary Criticism
Torrence, Jackie – Horn Book Magazine, 1983
A professional storyteller encourages the use of Joel Chandler Harris's "Uncle Remus" tales and offers a method for those interested in learning the art of storytelling. (AEA)
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature, Fairy Tales, Story Telling
Livingston, Myra Cohn – Horn Book Magazine, 1982
Asserts that apprehension of the unknown or incomprehensible that calls forth children's creative imagination, rather than comprehension or understanding, is why children enjoy poetry. (AEA)
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature, Creativity
Peer reviewedArmstrong, Judith – Children's Literature in Education, 1982
Relates how the series adventure story retains its hold over young readers and concludes its qualities may be both misunderstood and undervalued. (HOD)
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature, Literary Genres, Reading Interests
Peer reviewedBlishen, Edward – Children's Literature in Education, 1981
Examines a classic school story that influenced the genre for several generations. (HOD)
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature, Literary Criticism, Literary Genres
Peer reviewedRosen, Michael – Children's Literature in Education, 1995
Examines a classic text, Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Child's Garden of Verses," within the context of several of Stevenson's own essays. Suggests that unlike many children's books, it was an experiment and one that Stevenson, for various reasons, including his premature death, was never able to adapt for future use. (RS)
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Children, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education
Hale, Robert D. – Horn Book Magazine, 1986
Recounts the activities that a number of bookstores have sponsored in order to generate children's interest in books, such as making valentines in February, having Santa Claus pay a visit in December, and having children tape record their favorite stories so that blind children can listen to them. (DF)
Descriptors: Books, Bookstores, Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature
Peer reviewedSegel, Elizabeth – Children's Literature in Education, 1982
Betsy Byars, author of more than 15 children's books, comments upon her life and work, stressing the potent impact of childhood experience on her writing. (HOD)
Descriptors: Authors, Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature, Early Experience
PDF pending restorationBirkman, Marlene Ann – 1977
Children's poetry no longer connotes holidays, nonsense, moral dicta, or the what's, why's, and how's of life, connotations that have frequently stereotyped poetry as sissy, baby, or boring stuff. Children's poems of the seventies suggest that any simple subject has become the province of a poem, including such topics as mud, oil slicks, sharks,…
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Language Arts
Peer reviewedNodelman, Perry – Children's Literature in Education, 1981
Explores the assumptions about their readers implied by two children's novels, one admired by adults and one by children, and considers how such attitudes are fostered in early childhood. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adults, Characterization, Childhood Attitudes, Childhood Interests
Peer reviewedEvans, David – Children's Literature in Education, 1982
Examines the appealing factors of the "Mr. Men" series of story books. (HOD)
Descriptors: Characterization, Child Development, Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature
Peer reviewedWright, Peter – English in Education, 1980
Analyzes the book "Five Run Away Together" from the popular but controversial children's series by Enid Blyton; acknowledges some of the negative factors critics have seen in Blyton's books but also points to some values the books have for children. (GT)
Descriptors: Characterization, Childhood Attitudes, Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature
Espey, David – 1995
If children are not present in most travel literature--precisely because the genre has most typically been the domain of solitary male travelers who are escaping domestic obligation, routine, the familiar, and the family--they nevertheless are an integral part of the genre. The traveler is in many ways a child, an innocent abroad. Traveler writers…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature, Literary Criticism
Byars, Betsy – Horn Book Magazine, 1985
Reflects on childhood memories of reading a number of books by Leo Edwards and Margaret Pedler. (EL)
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature, Fiction, Literature Appreciation
