Eng 313: Children's Literature

Compiled by two experienced librarians, Across Cultures introduces you to more than 400 recent fiction and nonfiction multicultural resources for preschool through grade 6 and encourages you to make literature about diversity an integral part of your program of instruction. Arranged in thematic groupings (Identity and Self-Image, Family and Friends, Traditions, Exploring the Past in Diverse Communities, for example), this lively volume links diverse peoples, themes, and issues. It presents both annotations and practical advice on programming strategies. Connections are made to projects, graphic organizers, and activities.

The Cambridge Guide to Children's Books in English is an alphabetised reference work providing a critical and appreciative overview of children's books written in English across the world. It gives due weight to the history of children's books from pre-Norman times to the present - respecting the canon but also recognising current developments in publishing practices and in children's own reading. In addition to the long established traditions of children's writing from Britain and the USA, the Guide covers the increasing range of successful children's books produced in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Africa and India; and the exciting renaissances in children's books taking place in Ireland and South Africa. In acknowledging that a great deal of what children read has little to do with classrooms and not much to do with what is considered 'literary', the Guide contains entries on television, comics, annuals and the growing range of media texts.

With 1,200 biographical-critical entries and nearly 100 topical articles all written by experts in the field, this work covers 150 years of children's literature in many cultures.

The writers in this volume are 18th and 19th century American children's authors who set trends or modified and refined the art of writing for children. Several of these writers 19th-century work continued to influence writing into the early decades of the 20th century. 52 entries include: William Taylor Adams, Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mary Mapes Dodge, Charles Austin Fosdick, Joel Chandler Harris, Kirk Munroe, Howard Pyle, Frank R. Stockton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Susan Bogert Warner, Noah Webster and Augusta Jane Evans Wilson.

DLB Volume 22 presents many of the important figures who were creating childrens literature between the turn of the century, when separate childrens sections were first established in public libraries, until the turbulent 1960s, when, as volume editor John Cech describes, a ...time of innocence was drawing to a close. 43 entries include: L. Frank Baum, Walt Disney, Walter Farley, Hardie Gramatky, Marguerite Henry, Winsor McCay, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, H.A. Rey, James Thurber, E.B. White, Laura Ingalls Wilder and Garth Williams.

This volume includes entries on Judy Blume, Robert Burch, Betsy Byars, Beverly Cleary, Robert Cormier, Meindert DeJong, Madeleine LEngle, Lois Lowry, Scott ODell and Isaac Bashevis Singer.

The major writers, illustrators and writer-illustrators from the period are represented in DLB Volume 61. 32 entries include: Tomie dePaola, Leonard Everett Fisher, Genevieve Foster, Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss), Nancy Larrick, David Macaulay, Milton Meltzer, Myra Cohn Livingston, Eve Merriam, Richard Scarry, William Steig and Chris Van Allsburg.

This DLB volume covers childrens literature from 1880 to 1914, an era deemed a Golden Age as evidenced by the many literary classics from this time period that are still in print today. Entries include Beatrix Potter, E. Nesbit, G.A. Henty, Rudyard Kipling, Richard Jefferies, Robert Louis Stevenson.