Rarely Pure and Never Simple: The World of Irish Children's Literature

1997 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Dunbar
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
The World

Children's Literature about Africa

1965 ◽  
Vol 8 (03) ◽  
pp. 61-70
Author(s):  
Nancy J. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
African History ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Library Users ◽  
The World ◽  
School Curricula

Although the quantity of children's literature about Africa has been increasing rapidly in recent years--probably more has been published since 1960 than in the preceding three decades--the total volume is small and mediocre. Children's literature in this discussion refers to books written especially for children up to twelve or thirteen years of age. Somewhat over half the books which have been written for this age group are geographies, animal stories, and factual compendia with titles like First Book of Liberia, Getting to Know Tanganyika, Land and People of South Africa, and so on. Young persons are likely to use such books in connection with school assignments or purely for pleasure (in the case of animal stories), but they will gain little understanding of African peoples and cultures from them. The smaller segment of children's books about Africa is comprised of storybooks and factual presentations of African history and contemporary African life. Some of these books are sufficiently attractive to catch the attention of library users and of children whose parents are affluent enough to buy books for them. But do these books help create an understanding of the peoples and cultures of Africa? This question is especially pertinent since school curricula still devote relatively little attention to Africa, despite its increased importance on the world scene, and television, radio, movies, and other mass media to which children have access often do little or nothing to promote an understanding of Africa and its people.

scholarly journals Stories in Children’s Literature. An Analysis of Transcendent Language

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1018-1020
Author(s):  
Cristina Guarneri, Ed.D.
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Real Life ◽  
New Words ◽  
Children's Book ◽  
The World ◽  
Source Of Information

Children’s literature plays an essential role in their development through the use of characters that they become familiar with, which become like friends. Stories have become a useful source of information for increasing reading skills, which are necessary for the development of new words. It is through the fiction literature that is based on real-life where children are able to understand traumatic events and complex ideas. They are able to understand life experiences and diversity of the world that they live in. Even with increased learning through literature, the National Literary Strategy conducted a study of words to show that children need 100 words in order to read a “real” children’s book. It is essential to distinguish between ‘restrictive texts,’ which allow for fewer perceptions to take place for active reader judgment of text that enables critical and thoughtful responses.

scholarly journals Audiobooks as a Window to the World

2021 ◽  
pp. 92-97
Author(s):  
Maria Cahill ◽  
Jennifer Richey
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Skill Development ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Literacy Skill ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Literacy Skill Development ◽  
Children's Interests

Library, literacy, and children’s literature professionals promote the benefits of transacting with audiobooks, and awards are bestowed upon audiobooks worldwide. Research spanning decades and conducted worldwide has explored the use of audiobooks for promoting literacy skill development. These studies have explored various uses of audiobooks and report mixed results for different types of readers and for readers of varying levels of proficiency. Yet, huge gaps exist in the research with many aspects of audiobook use still uninvestigated. This paper reports the disconnect between professionals’ claims regarding the benefits of audiobooks for children and those verified by empirical studies. It identifies the gaps in the scholarship surrounding audiobooks and calls attention to those areas in which audiobooks have potential to support children’s interests and needs.

Adults in the World of Children’s Literature

2016 ◽  
pp. 169-196
Author(s):  
Jonathan Todres ◽  
Sarah Higinbotham ◽  
Carol Bellamy
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
The World

scholarly journals The influence of Czech and Russian humanist educators on the development of children’s literature in France in the first half of the twentieth century

2020 ◽  
pp. 43-55
Author(s):  
S.V. Ivanova ◽  
L.A. Volodina
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
French Literature ◽  
Art Criticism ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Book Publishing ◽  
Book Publisher ◽  
The World ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
Russian Education

The article discusses the development of children’s literature in France, which influenced all European children’s literature, which went along the path of education, training and parenting, in contrast to American children’s literature, which took a course primarily on entertainment. The study presents the reasons for the pedagogical path of children’s French literature, shows the foundations of approaches that are rooted in the humanistic ideas of the Russian writer and educator L.N. Tolstoy, the Czech educator F. Bakule and his follower L. Havranek. Russian artists who emigrated from the Soviet Russia (for various reasons), but who were closely connected with the Russian education, also played a fundamental role in this influence. The influence of the concept of the development of children by means of art, developed by F. Bakule, on the publishing projects of the French educator P. Faucher is analyzed in particular. The scientist, educator, book publisher P. Faucher is shown as the central figure of this successful book-publishing project. His role in this project, as well as his importance as a person who influenced the development of children’s literature, are known. At the same time, little is known about the sources of his pedagogical creativity, his book publishing ideas, and there is no scientific coverage of the role of artists in the implementation of pedagogical ideas in book publishing. The issue is resolved by the example of the publication of a series of children’s books “Albums of Father Beaver”, which had been published for about thirty years (in the 1930s and 1960s), was translated into 20 languages. In 2018, the series was included in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register. The article is to some extent interdisciplinary in nature, the authors needed to turn, first of all, to the pedagogical science, but also to the art criticism and research in the field of book publishing.

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