 | The Changing World of Children's Books and the Development of Multicultural Literature
In the sections of this chapter you will do the following:
WESTERN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE FROM ITS BEGINNINGS TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
- Identify the purpose of storytelling throughout history.
- Determine the purpose and form of early lesson-books and note some examples.
- Determine the contribution William Caxton made to children's books.
- Find out why John Newbery's publication of A Little Pretty Pocket-Book is generally accepted as the beginning of children's literature.
- Compare and contrast the purpose of writing for children in the 19th century with that of the 18th century
- Identify the best-known illustrators of the 19th century and their contributions.
- Summarize children's literature activity in the 19th century.
20TH CENTURY
- Identify peripheral events that occurred in the 20th century which were indicative of the fact that children's literature was established as a field.
- Describe the evolution of the picture storybook
- Learn about developments in informational books.
- Read how biographies changed in the 20th century.
- Identify the key folklorists of children's collections in the 20th century.
- Learn how fantasy changed in the latter quarter of the 20th century.
- Learn about developments in children's poetry in the 20th century.
- Identify changes in books of realism in the 20th century.
- Read about increased internationalism in children's literature.
MULTICULTURAL LITERATURE
- Learn a rationale for multicultural literature.
- Read about the development of multicultural literature.
- Become familiar with the criteria for the evaluation of multicultural literature for children.
- Read about the debate over the authorship of literature of diversity.
- Learn about increased internationalism in children's literature.
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