Children's Books in Children's Hands: An Introduction to Their Literature (3rd Edition)

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 608 pages
• Published by: Allyn & Bacon
• Edition: 3rd Edition August 12, 2005
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0205420435
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0205420438
• Book Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 1.2 inches
• Weighs: 3.5 pounds

Product Description
Children's Books in Children's Hands offers a comprehensive approach to teaching children's literature by providing appropriate depth, and using full-color illustrations from outstanding children's books. Unlike books that simply describe a great many children's books, this book takes the reader inside the workings of children's literature, focusing on ways literature elicits responses from young readers, genre by genre and book by book. The book also provides a full range of thoughtful and practical suggestions for sharing and exploring literature with children. Thus, there is a natural connection between the presentation and exploration of good books for children (including more than 2,000 annotations), and the rich repertoire of reader-response- based techniques. This connection prepares the reader not only to choose good literary works for children, but to understand their dynamics and be able to engage young readers in them. Elementary educators, and parents. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Back Cover Copy
From the Authors:
In this book, we seek to explain the vital importance of sharing ideas with the young through children’s literature and nurturing a richer appreciation of the books themselves. We had several goals in writing this book:

• To help the adult reader recognize the many ways children benefit from literature at different times in their lives and to appreciate what happens when a child is engaged by a book
• To acquaint the adult reader with the wealth of children’s books that are available today and to enable that reader to make critical judgments about them
• To equip the reader with a range of proven strategies to bring children together with books productively and pleasurably

This highly lauded text, with a “reader-response” approach and extensive inclusion of culturally diverse literature, has been updated to include coverage of such important topics as technology in the classroom, visual literacy, and the influence of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2000 on reading instruction in the public schools.

The third edition is packed with new and revised practical applications, and features complete revisions of three key chapters (Multicultural and International Literature, Picture Books, and Literary Meaning-Making and Children’s Response to Literature.) The authors have also expanded coverage of important and timely topics: the re-emergence of graphic novels (aka comic books); the influence of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2000 on reading instruction in the public schools; censorship; visual depictions in traditional literature; historical evolution of realistic fiction; and magical realism.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Children's Books in Children's Hands: An Introduction to Their Literature (Hardcover) This book offers indepth information about a variety of topics concerning childrens literature. In the first chapters it focuses on the development of children and their perceptions of literature at different ages. It then informs the reader about the historical development of children's literature. The biggest part of the book, however, is about the different genres of literature available. What I liked about this book was that it offered many examples and reading samples. It also included several essays from children book authors who wrote about their profession. The teaching aids and the recommended reading at the end of each chapter proved helpful. However, some areas of this book, such as this one, are only helpful to people interested in child education as a profession.