Literature for Children

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A concise, accessible, popular text focusing on both the genres and current issues covered in Children's literature courses. This updated text gives students a solid understanding of the foundations of children's literature across its various genres from picture books to folk literature. In his usual engaging style, popular author David Russell stresses that future teachers need to first appreciate literature in order to later use and teach it effectively in their own classrooms. The text's user-friendly format includes a wealth of real examples from literature, and its concise presentation allows students to spend more time reading actual children's books. Substantially updated to bring the text and its resource lists in line with today's most current scholarship, the Eighth Edition includes annotated recommended booklists, discussions of important topics such as the Common Core Curriculum, how to use technology in the classroom, using folktales in teaching, 25 uses for poetry, and critical approaches to literature that demonstrate a variety of ways of reading children's books. The ideal teaching and learning resource for your course, this text features: An accessible, concise, and engaging introduction to the field of children's literature, coupled with. A variety of pedagogical suggestions give prospective teachers ideas they can put to use in their classrooms.