Series of children's books

Eric Affabee are some of his titles, but most know him as R.L. Stine, author of the famous children’s series, Goosebumps (“R.L. Stine” 2015). The popular writer, despite criticism from…

Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, The Heroes of Olympus, The Kane Chronicles, Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, and The Trials of Apollo. He has received various awards for his novels, including a two-time Mark Twain Award, and the Children's Choice Books Awards for Author of the Year in 2011. He is also a #1 New York Times best selling author. I chose to write about Rick Riordan because I wanted to gain more knowledge about him and his works. Rick Riordan’s books are exceptionally…

The Censorship of Children’s Literature Although literature and storytelling has been around since the ancient world, the specific genre of children’s literature is something that was not always as refined as many people may think of it today. In this paper, discuss the history of children’s literature, define what censorship is, provide examples of books affected by this censoring, and discuss the future of children’s literature. Prior to about the Renaissance age, there was no clear…

One main reason how the famous Harry Potter series positively influences the current generation is that the book series promotes reading among younger children. The sole fact that Harry Potter has become the best-selling book series in history with over 450 million copies sold proves that it has grabbed people’s attention. A research done by the Federation of Children’s Book Groups has proved that the Harry Potter series has had a huge impact in terms of reading habits in the UK. According to…

Children literature includes books, magazines, stories and poems that children enjoy. It can be traced to stories and songs which were part of the oral tradition that adults shared with their children before the advent of publication. The development of children literature is difficult to trace. However, from the 15th century AD, a large volume of literature, often with a religious or moral message, has been targeted specifically at children. Many of the children books acknowledged today as…

The Harry Potter books continue to be a trending topic of debate to this day, facing those who see the series nothing short of magical against those serious literary critics who are innately skeptical of popular culture. With opinions raging between the two sides and critics being divided, there seems that there will never be a final conclusion made on the worthiness and literary merit of the Potter series. Some shall make the stand against this frenzy: a futile stand, no death or glory, to only…

The Heroes of Olympus is a series of novels that are a sequel to the Olympians and Percy Jackson series of novels by American author Rick Riordan. The series of novels is a combination of fantasy and mythological elements that make for some of the most entertaining mish mash of narratives. The novels are made up of narratives that describe the conflict between Roman and Greek demigods and the earth goddess, Gaea. The novels have a lot of Roma mythological elements in addition to several…

with time. “Marcus Crouch comments that, ‘of all the winners of the Carnegie Medal [awarded annually by the British Library Association to the best children's novel of the preceding year], it is the one book of unquestioned, timeless genius’” (Stott). The Borrowers was published in 1952 has continued to be read throughout the following years. This book is still in print and is still being read even sixty years after it was published. While the writing is somewhat old fashioned, the idea of…

All of his books are children’s books and he’s written more than 40 books to this day. One book not in a series is City Dog, Country Frog is a beautifully illustrated story and teaches students about the impact of a friendship even when that person is gone. Today I Will Fly is apart of the Elephant and Piggie series. In this story, we follow Elephant and Piggie on an adventure to make Piggie fly. This tells students…

there comes a truly unique item that fractures the normal. Noel Sturgeon, a professor of women's studies and American studies at Washington State University, describes in her article “The Power Is Yours, Planeteers!”: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Children’s Environmentalist Popular Culture how society has a formulaic style that must be followed for something to become mainstream. The Harry Potter franchise shatters this formulaic style as evidenced in Elizabeth Teare’s essay Harry Potter and…