Children's Books in Children's Hands

By Temple/Martinez/Yokato/Naylor

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0205341683
• ISBN13: 9780205341689
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Allyn and Bacon
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Not Your Mother's Children's Literature Texbook

My Children's Literature class loved this book. Not only is it user-friendly, full of appealing illustrations, and intelligently organized, it also shows how far the study of children's literature has come in the past twenty years. My students praised its use of questions from children coupled with answers from the authors and illustrators themselves. They were also relieved to find the lesson ideas and activities for sharing literature with children. As the instructor of undergraduates who will be teachers one day, I appreciate the text's exploration of reader-response theory and its implications for the teaching of children's literature. I also am grateful for its emphasis on multicultural children's literature. Its frank discussion of censorship led to some lively debates in class. I recommend this book to classroom teachers, homeschooling parents, and college professors. It is a thoughtful and useful resource. It's not often that one finds a textbook that one enjoys reading for pleasure--this is it. [...]