Children's picture books

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…

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…

Although children’s literature is often written to educate children, the most interesting children’s literature is a “complex interweaving of adult and childlike concerns.” (Nodelman and Reimer, 201) these concerns are imbedded into the stories of children to help produce an understanding or acceptance of the widely shared assumptions of their society. These assumptions are what we know, more commonly, as ideologies and they are virtually invisible, and more often then not; they lie at a level…

Science fiction, to me, was a genre of books that involved certain plausible speculations for the future—particularly involving technology. My earliest encounter with science fiction in literature was when I first read John Christopher’s The Tripods series. These books are a prime example of young adult invasion literature mixed with dystopian concepts. They involve a future world where humanity is under…

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…

answer this question, I kept thinking back to the books I read as a child, such as The Magic Tree House and Dear America series. I was addicted to reading as a child and that love has continued until today. I think one of the main purposes of children 's literature is to encourage children to want to continue reading throughout their lives, and by doing so, they will learn more about the world around them and learn to explore their imagination. The books I read definitely did this for me. In The…

put in your story. Your imagination is what makes the best fiction story. Another reason why I love fiction stories is that it takes place in it’s own planet and immerses you in it. Like I said before The Great Gatsby, was one definitely one of the books that made me feel like I was with them and it made it feel like this story could happen in a real life situation. I also feel like writing a fictional story can show your true self in a sense. It could express what you like in a story or just in…

young adult literature is. The many misconceptions about the genre lead to people viewing it as useless or bad. A common false belief is that “young adult literature” simply means classic books often used to teach youth in schools. In reality, these books are those that are a part of the canon of older books which teachers and administrators believe to contain educational value (Crowe 120). This may lead people to mistakenly…

The Caterpillar as a Teacher A Lewis Carroll’s book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has fascinated me since I was a little child. Now, as an (almost) grown-up, I keep discovering additional layers and ever fresh important messages, new insights, and wisdom hidden in it. My intent in this work is to shed some new light–also relying upon the foremost commentaries on the subject–on the significance of Alice’s encounter with the Caterpillar. Alice encounters the Caterpillar when she has already had…

In the Children’s literature of fantasy, the process of self-discovery and the identity formation is the dominant part of the story. In both Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Roald Dahl’s The Witches, the reality is cautiously constructed to help children with their biggest fear of growing up. Transformation can be found in many different forms, Alice and The Boy experienced both biological changes and psychological changes. Their changes and reaction towards the…