Children's Rights Essay

The Sneetches is a short animation written by the notorious children's author Dr. Seuss about a civilization of strange creatures called “Sneetches”. With one type of Sneetch having a star on them and the other don’t. The Sneetches with stars on them have a little supremacy going on while the ones that don’t try to assimilate to the Star Bellied Sneetches “culture” by going through some Bourgeoisie capitalist money-making scheme machine that will give them a star, and what exactly is this…

The children’s book Could be Worse, stars an older caucasian male who always says the same thing: “could be worse” (Stevenson 3). This picture book is geared toward early readers, between the grades of first through third. This book has a clear message that couldn’t be understood just by looking at the pictures. The pictures tell the story but don't convey the message. The reader would have to be able to comprehend, along with reading the story and looking at the pictures. The main message of…

Eric Carle, world-renowned children’s author and illustrator, has touched the hearts, minds, and lives of millions of dedicated readers all over the world, including mine. Growing up, Eric Carle’s books were a staple in our home. My mom and dad have read, “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” and “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?” to me more times than I can recount. What I loved and still admire the most about Carle’s work is not his words, or story lines, but his illustrations. Though born…

Positive Elements of “Have You Filled a Bucket Today?” “Have You Filled a Bucket Today?” is a great book for children to read and in my opinion belongs in the top 100 list of children’s books. Children need to learn how their actions affect themselves and others and the book does that in a way that most children can enjoy. I personally had the book read to me and my class at the age of twelve and it made me and my classmates think about our actions and helped to make us more mindful of how we…

What comes to mind when people think science fiction? In reality, this depends on what literature the person has had experience with. I think you could accurately guess that the first thing a lot of people might come up with would be Hunger Games. However, some people might bring out more classic literature like War of the Worlds. You can confuse yourself more by asking someone what science fiction is. Everyone seems to have their own opinions on this subject and you might even start a…

important to bring up various terms and critics according to the topic of political correctness. First of all, I would like to explain what does political correctness (PC) generally means and its importance in the context of education and children’s literature. “The central uses of the term relate to particular issues of race, gender, disability, ethnicity, sexual preference, culture and worldviews, and encompass both the language in which issues are discussed and the viewpoints that are…

Fairy tales are a work of fiction and children are fully aware of that. Taking the fairy tales away from the pre-school and kindergarten students would be wrong because it takes away their chance of developing creative minds and becoming creative thinkers. Children have grown up on these stories for age and should continue to grow up on them because the stories teach children life lessons. (Orde) Fairytales can teach children lessons like manors, helping people, and being courageous in a fun and…

pages 102 and 103 when Julia, Marcus, and Miranda were comparing the diamond ring to time. While I don 't think children 's books should be watered down (like Raggedy Ann), I don 't think they should be so complex that the main points of the book go right over children 's heads. I was quite surprised to hear that the book was targeted for third to fifth graders. I was recommending that my mother put the book into her eighth grade classroom thinking it was for a higher reading…

change your perspective. In the article The Scholarship Boy and the author being Adam Lovell (1957) feels like the same as my main point in this. He talks about how mass media affected his life as he look at the newspaper. He wasn’t taught what was right or wrong but what…

The first time I began to read was in kindergarten, I don’t recall the exact moment I began reading since it was so long ago, but the first books I read were books with pictures and very little words. In about the second grade I started reading The Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne up until halfway through the fourth grade. The next series of books I fell in love with was R. L. Stine’s Goosebumps series, which lasted throughout the sixth grade. In middle school, I started to read J. K…