Essentials of Children's Literature
by Kathy Short, Carl Tomlinson, Carol Lynch-Brown
This updated guide explores children’s literature across genres, formats, and cultures. It supports teachers, librarians, and students with book lists, research charts, reader-response strategies, coverage of graphic novels and visual elements, Common Core connections, historical fiction themes, informational texts, and resources for professional study.
About This Book
This comprehensive resource examines children’s literature for use in classrooms and libraries.
It integrates multicultural and global literature throughout its genre chapters and book lists, with expanded attention to graphic novels, illustration, visual elements, historical fiction, and informational literature.
Updated features include recommended book lists, milestones, notable authors and illustrators, books to read aloud, and invitations for further investigation.
The book also addresses reader response, close reading, reading interests, text complexity, Common Core Standards, censorship, librarian connections, and book-related apps.
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