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Charlotte Huck's Children's Literature: A Brief Guide, provides essential information for designing pre-K to 8 literature programs to capture students' attention and foster a lifelong love of reading. Expertly designed in a vibrant, full-color format, this streamlined text has a strong emphasis on researching, evaluating, and implementing quality books in the classroom, the critical skills needed to search for and select literature. The guide gives readers the tools they need to evaluate books, create curriculum, and share the love of literature.
List of contents
PART ONE LEARNING ABOUT CHILDREN AND LITERATURE
CHAPTER 1 Knowing Children's Literature
CHAPTER 2 Reading Responses at Different Ages
PART TWO EXPLORING GENRES AND FORMATS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS
CHAPTER 3 Picturebooks
CHAPTER 4 Graphica
CHAPTER 5 Traditional Literature
CHAPTER 6 Speculative Fiction
CHAPTER 7 Contemporary Realistic Fiction
CHAPTER 8 Historical Fiction
CHAPTER 9 Nonfiction
CHAPTER 10 Biography
CHAPTER 11 Poetry
PART THREE EXPERIENCING LITERATURE
CHAPTER 12 Extending Experiences with Literature
APPENDIXES
APPENDIX A Children's Book Awards
APPENDIX B Book Lists
APPENDIX C Recommended Read Alouds
INDEXES
About the author
Barbara Kiefer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University where she teaches courses in Reading and Children's Literature. Originally trained in art education, she taught grades 1-5 in several regions of the U.S. and in overseas schools. She has served as chair of the Elementary Section Committee of the National Council of Teachers of English and as a member of the NCTE Executive Board and was a member of the 1988 Caldecott Award Committee of the American Library Association. She has also served as chair of the NCTE/CLA notable Trade Books in the Language Arts committee and the Children's Book Council/International Reading association Joint Committee. She has published articles and book chapters about reading and children's literature. She is the author of The Potential of Picturebooks: From Visual Literacy to Aesthetic Understanding, the co-author of An Integrated Language Perspective in the Elementary School with Christine Pappas and Linda Levstik and the sixth and seventh editions of Huck et al.: Children's Literature in the Elementary School.
