SOS Children's Villages

years, children’s literature has established itself as a vital tool for the exploration, feeling and creativity ideals that both children and young adults depend upon. Children’s literature is a necessity to facilitate learning, assist in shaping reader’s minds, to stimulate their thought processes and is a reflection of social change. Historically, Australian picturebooks were not a readily available or utilised resource. Australian colonial children were also only exposed to British…

tone throughout this poem. His tone helps establish the theme of this poem, which is to state that something so insignificant, like an old wet puzzle piece has endless possibilities to become beautiful or amazing. In the last two lines of the poem Silverstein writes, “Nothing has more possibilities than one old wet picture puzzle piece.” Silverstein writes for an audience of young children so by making his message clear it is easier for them to understand. “ Picture Puzzle Piece” uses a lot of…

Every writer uses their own toolbox of skills to construct their writing in reflection of their lives. Antwone Fisher uses figurative language such as personification, metaphor, and onomatopoeia as tools in his book, Finding Fish, to create a solid picture in the reader’s mind of how he perceived his life. He creates a tone of wonderment to show the good times of his life in these examples. Fisher describes an image of his childhood as: “...the icy bare branches looked like they were holding…

foundation. “ For every 25$ custom, “wishes DelieverD” Dunkin Donuts card purchased at DDwishesdelieverD.com, the brand will donate 1$ to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.” (Dunkin Donuts Introduces...). The Make-A-Wish Foundation is a non-profit organization so they strive to use all they money towards the wishes, but that does not always happen. “9.9% is used on fund raising, 4.6% is used on administration and as stated above, more than 85% are used to make wishes come true”…

films can be used to fit all audiences of disaster films. The reason the definition of disaster films needs to be changed is the definition needs to encompass the younger audience of disaster films. Most conventions of disaster films fit well in children’s disaster movies. The narrative shape and the genre’s function are also two aspects of the definition of disaster films that do not need to be changed. It is the death and the exclusion of the impossible that must change to include a child…

"This is a review of the classic, well known fantasy childrens novel - The Never Ending Story by Michael Ende. I first read this book as a child, given to me by Grandmother whom often recommended or gave books to me as presents to instil a love of reading in me. I grew to love her recommendations as they were often books that were for children, but didn't talk down to them, and this is one such book. The story is a classic coming of age story and hero adventure of a young boy's journey through…

and ethnicities, provides a new view on the world and that everyone is their own individual self. It offers children a variety of things to think about, question, or consider. The illustrations in this book are bold and vivid, which would hold children's interest while the text is read and colorful for children to enjoy. It shows all different skin types and the pictures relate them to objects also in the pictures for children to look at. The text was displayed on the page, as it was visually…

Four time winner of New York Times Best Illustrated Award, Jerry Pinkney has now recreated for us one of aesop's fables about a friendship between a mouse and a lion. The timeless story is one in which has no worlds, except for the ever so often use of a descriptive sound. Younger friends will have to interpret the brilliant works of art showing an odd relationship between a king of the jungle and a mouse. This picture book starts out with a giant and dangerous lion sparing the tiny powerless…

Enter, if you dare… I stood in the middle of the bookstore's children's section, running the pads of my thumbs along the raised, bumpy title of the book that would inevitably change my life. My brow furrowed as I studied the cover. A green creature with horns that resembled a ram's on either side of its head, gazed back at me glowing red eyes. It's gnarled and clawed hands held a sign that read, "Welcome to Horrorland where nightmares come to life!" In the distance, there was an amusement park.…

Laurie doesn’t change throughout the story. He is rude and disrespectful and he misbehaves at school. To get out of trouble he makes up a boy named Charles who is doing all the things he is doing in so he doesn’t get in trouble with his parents. On the other hand, Roger changes a lot. In the beginning Roger only wants to play therefore, he doesn’t pay much attention to his academics. After a strict substitute teacher fills in for his usual easy-going…