Children's literature

The book I have chose to evaluate is Jack's Path of Courage, The Life of John F. Kennedy, by Doreen Rappaport. This book fits into two main genres. It is biographical non-fiction presented as a picture book. To evaluate it as a picture book the illustrations must be considered. The illustrations in this book are accurate and correspond well with the content of the story. They are done in watercolor with rounded lines making the story appealing for children. The pages where the story is sad…

“The Story of the Grandmother” is a fascinating fairy tale that many people are not exposed to while growing up. This tale predates, and is likely the basis of, Perrault’s “Little Red Riding Hood”. There are multitudes of versions of “Little Red Riding Hood”, each with slight variations. “The Story of the Grandmother” is unique in the fact that it is the possibly the oldest written version, allowing the reader a glimpse at this famous tale’s origin. Fairy tales originally were used…

Lewis was a writer and was born on January 27, 1832 in Daresbury, United Kingdom. He died January 14, 1898 in Guilford, United Kingdom. Some poems that Lewis wrote are Jabberwocky,The Hunting of the Snark, and The Walrus and the Carpenter. Some people that influenced Lewis Carroll are Alice Liddell and Hans Christian Andersen. Lewis wrote¨ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland¨ and ¨Through the Looking-Glass.¨ He went to school at Christ Church (Oxford) Rugby School, Richmond School, Yorkshire. At…

Fairy tales usually involve a happy princess who falls in love with a prince and they live happily ever after, the end. Typically, there isn’t a negative side to the story other than the occasional evil witch that the princess easily overcomes. These stories are almost always used as bedtime stories for children to give them a happy situation to sleep on and they usually do not have a deeper, underlying theme. “The Thing in the Forest” by A.S. Byatt is a different type of fairy tale with a much…

Dr. Seuss once said, “Be who yo=u are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” His words can be understood as a universal theme about identity. By looking at an author, interpreting their work, and examining other examples that share the same ideas, a universal theme can be identified and understood. Dr. Seuss is credited with saying these words. Theodore Seuss Geisel was born on March 2, 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts, to parents Theodore…

Have you ever been accused of something you did not do like the Grinch. The who’s blamed him of destruction of the city. The grinch is not guilty. The grinch gaved all of the present back at the end. The grinch is not guilty of the charges brought against him, nor does he have poor characteristics. He is a caring person because of when he gave the presents back to the who’s. He gives the presents back because of how he felt when he stole the presents from the who's. When he stole the present…

Readers typically enjoy a work of literature more when it is something they are able to relate to. The short stories, “The Sky is Gray,” by Ernest Gaines and “Raymond’s Run,” by Toni Cade Bambara both encompass young children who have figured out the cruel and unjust world around them. Both written by African-American individuals and published in the late 20th century, the stories give us a look into the lives of colored individuals, specifically children, in this case. The two protagonists,…

October is the perfect time of year to indulge in a few Halloween frights, and for those movie lovers with children, Paranormal Activity and Crimson Peak just won't do. So Goosebumps will have to fill that gap. Twenty-somethings might feel the temptation to revisit R.L. Stine's wares since they grew up with it, but this is strictly kids' fare. With hundreds of Goosebumps novels to choose from, Sony could easily release at least one movie a year until 2020. Instead, director Rob Letterman…

“I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant’s faithful one-hundred percent!” Dr. Seuss is the brilliant children’s author / illustrator that has put several important messages into his books. A lot of the characters in his books are based off of his personality; however, some of them are based of other people that were in his life or that he had just seen. During his time writing, he was able to publish over 50 illustrated books. Dr. Seuss’s books are way more than just nonsense…

Dragons, witches, princesses and knights. These are the imaginary friends in so many children's lives. For young adults, those fairy tale characters give way to darker characters and more realistic situations. However, what do they all have in common? They live in short stories. Two stories that are interesting are The Giver by Lois Lowry and " A Man Called Horse" by Dorothy M. Jackson. In the story The Giver a boy is chosen to receive memories from his community so he can give them advice on…