
- 144 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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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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Yes, you can access Understanding Children′s Books by Prue Goodwin in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Education & Teaching Methods for Reading. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- About the Author
- About the Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 A world of children’s books
- 2 Babies really do need books
- 3 Literature for the very young
- 4 Learning to be a reader: promoting good textual health
- 5 Traditional tales: the bedrock of storytelling
- 6 Fiction for children and young people: the state of the art
- 7 Into new worlds: children’s books in translation
- 8 More than information: engaging hearts and minds with non-fiction
- 9 Poetry for children
- 10 Picturebooks: looking closely
- 11 The powerful world of graphic texts
- References
- Index