"Celebrate Literature!," a multi-volume articulated literature curriculum for grades K-6, intended to foster students' awareness of their literary heritage, increase their knowledge of story structure and provide examples of excellence in children's literature, is described in this paper. The paper also describes how by building upon established practices of reading aloud to children, the curriculum offers teachers information about genre, books, authors, and illustrators and provides a structure for using children's literature in the classroom. The seven guides form a spiraling curriculum designed to teach students to understand, evaluate and appreciate literature. The curriculum goals which the paper identifies are: (1) to introduce children to their literary heritage; (2) to encourage children to read for pleasure and knowledge; (3) to provide children with knowledge of literary elements and structure; (4) to allow for creative response to literature; (5) to develop children's ability to evaluate literature; and (6) to develop independent readers and learners. (RAE)