Children's picture books

edified due to fairy tales. Without fairy tales, children are robbed of what they could gain from literature. By Bettelheim’s standards within “The Struggle for Meaning,” children are entitled to a deeper meaning of literature. Fairy tales captivate children’s creative thought process to unconsciously guide them morally. This is done by letting children not choose between good and evil, but by who they wish to unconsciously become in a given fairy tale. Sheltering children from life’s grave…

“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…

Alice arrived home, she exclaimed that he must write the story down for her. He fulfilled the small girl’s request, and through a series of coincidences, the story fell into the hands of the novelist Henry Kingsley, who urged Carroll to publish it. The book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was released in 1865. It gained steady popularity, and as a result, Carroll wrote the sequel, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There [1871]. By the time of his death, Alice had become…

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…

Seuss’ words are reflected in other books, movies, and songs. The Giver by Lois Lowry is a young-adult novel that explores the theme of self-awareness. In the book, Jonas is assigned the job of Receiver of Memory for his community in which conformity is valued above everything else. Through his journey in self-awareness, Jonas ultimately leaves his…

Books impacted the 20th century by introducing new genres into society. Books like, The Wizard of Oz, The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland, and Winnie-the-Pooh, where known as the golden age of children books. The Virginian and Riders of the Purple Sage made westerns a new unique American genres. Also, genres like science fiction, horror, mystery, and romance started spring up in the dime novels, these were stories that cost a dime to buy. Pulp stories were coming about too, they were sordid…

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…

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 words & rhyming. Published in 1937, And…