Understanding Children′s Books
eBook - ePub

Understanding Children′s Books

A Guide for Education Professionals

  1. 144 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Understanding Children′s Books

A Guide for Education Professionals

About this book

Children?s books play a vital role in education, and this book helps you to choose books that have the most to offer young children. Each chapter reflects on a different theme or genre and their role in educational settings, and recommends ten ?must reads? within each one.

The themes covered include:

- books for babies

- literature for the very young

- narrative fiction

- books in translation

- poetry

- picture books

- graphic texts.

Early years professionals, childcare professionals and teachers working from nursery to Key Stage 3 will find this book a fascinating and useful resource.

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Information

Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd
Year
2008
Print ISBN
9781847870322
9781847870315
eBook ISBN
9781446246429
Edition
1
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Teaching Methods for Reading

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. About the Author
  6. About the Contributors
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. 1 A world of children’s books
  9. 2 Babies really do need books
  10. 3 Literature for the very young
  11. 4 Learning to be a reader: promoting good textual health
  12. 5 Traditional tales: the bedrock of storytelling
  13. 6 Fiction for children and young people: the state of the art
  14. 7 Into new worlds: children’s books in translation
  15. 8 More than information: engaging hearts and minds with non-fiction
  16. 9 Poetry for children
  17. 10 Picturebooks: looking closely
  18. 11 The powerful world of graphic texts
  19. References
  20. Index

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