Children's and Adolescent Literature, by: Hani Fatmawati
Name: Hani Fatmawati
SID: 0707800
Class: Non-Edu A 2007
Chapter: Valuing Children’s Literature
Based on Children's Literature in the Elementary School fifth edition by Charlotte S. Huck, Susan Helper and Janet Hickman, and several internet sources.
Valuing Children's Literature
Children’s and adolescents literature constitutes a vibrant, mature and many-faceted literary genre. A literary genre is a category of literary composition. Genres may be determined by literary technique, tone, content, or even (as in the case of fiction) length. Genre should not be confused with age category, by which literature may be classified as either adult, young-adult, or children's. They also must not be confused with format, such as graphic novel or picture book. The distinctions between genres and categories are flexible and loosely defined, often with subgroups. Literature illuminates life by shaping our insight. There is many ways to describe literature. The experience of literature always involves both the books and the readers.
A child’s book is a book a child is reading. Children learn to recognize the world from the imagination that they get. Literature helps them to create their own imagination. Literature develops children’s imagination and helps them to consider nature, people, experiences, or ideas in new ways. Children think and feel they wonder and they dream. Children also curious about life and adults activities, good children literature’s book can bring these experiences imagination and insight, give them literary shape and structure and communicate with them. Children’s books are books that have the child’s eye at the center.
The presence of a child protagonist doesn’t assure that the book is for children. Obviously, the line between children’s literature and adult literature is blurred. Children today appear more sophisticated and knowledgeable about certain life experiences than those of any previous generation.
Before the nineteenth century only a few books were written for the specific readership of children. Children read books written for adults, taking from them what they could understand. Today, children continue to read some books intended for adults. Books about children may not necessarily be for them. Also in adolescent literary works the readers are made to think and guess the plot or perhaps the ending of its story. For instants, a sentimental book like Love you Forever by Robert Munsch, despite its popularity with teachers, is really not for children. Its themes of the passing of childhood and the assumption of responsibility for an aging parent both reflect adult experiences.
The differences between children’s literature and adolescents’ literature are;
• Children’s literature is less frank than adult books.
• Children’s literature reflects the problems of today.
• Adolescent’s literature use wider language while children’s literature use daily language.
• Children’s literature usually have a picture and full color to helps the child get the message of its story. While the adolescents literature do not have any illustrations to explore their reading skills.
• Children’s literature usually uses the big font.
• Adolescents literature is unlimited by the experiences and also the understanding.
• Almost all the children’s literature has a happy ending story. While the adolescents literature sometimes is not happy ending.
• Adolescent’s literatures also use to include feeling of nostalgia.
• Young children love to repeat such refrains.
• Adult are more responsive than children to the clever, the slyly written and the sarcastic.
The examples of children’s literary works:
1. The Velveteen Rabbit, by: Margery William’s
2. Winnie The Pooh, by: A. A. Milne
3. The hobbit, by: J. R. R. Tolkien
4. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by: Mark Twain
5. David Copperfield, by: Charles Dickens
6. The Lost World, by: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
7. Peter Pan, by: J. M. Barrie
8. The Secret Garden, by: Frances Hodgson Burrett
9. The Three Musketeers, by: Aleixandre Dumas
10. The Magic Pudding, by: Norman Lindsay
The examples of adolescents’ literary works:
1. All Creatures Great and Small, by: James Herriot
2. To Kill a Mockingbird, by: Harper Lee
3. Speak, by: Laurie Halse Anderson
4. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
5. Chronicles of Narnia, by: C. S. Lewis
6. Harry Potter, by: J. K. Rowling
7. Cracker Jackson, by: Betsy Byars
8. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, by: Robert O’Brien
9. A Boy in the Doghouse, by: Betsy Duffey
10. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by: C. S. Lewis
The traditional criteria a work of fiction look at such elements as plot, setting, theme, characterization, style, point of view, and format. Special criteria need to be applied to different types of literature. Additional criteria are also needed to evaluate certain forms of fiction. The most important task of critics of any age is to identify the kind of book they are reading in order to apply the appropriate criteria for evaluation.
SID: 0707800
Class: Non-Edu A 2007
Chapter: Valuing Children’s Literature
Based on Children's Literature in the Elementary School fifth edition by Charlotte S. Huck, Susan Helper and Janet Hickman, and several internet sources.
Valuing Children's Literature
Children’s and adolescents literature constitutes a vibrant, mature and many-faceted literary genre. A literary genre is a category of literary composition. Genres may be determined by literary technique, tone, content, or even (as in the case of fiction) length. Genre should not be confused with age category, by which literature may be classified as either adult, young-adult, or children's. They also must not be confused with format, such as graphic novel or picture book. The distinctions between genres and categories are flexible and loosely defined, often with subgroups. Literature illuminates life by shaping our insight. There is many ways to describe literature. The experience of literature always involves both the books and the readers.
A child’s book is a book a child is reading. Children learn to recognize the world from the imagination that they get. Literature helps them to create their own imagination. Literature develops children’s imagination and helps them to consider nature, people, experiences, or ideas in new ways. Children think and feel they wonder and they dream. Children also curious about life and adults activities, good children literature’s book can bring these experiences imagination and insight, give them literary shape and structure and communicate with them. Children’s books are books that have the child’s eye at the center.
The presence of a child protagonist doesn’t assure that the book is for children. Obviously, the line between children’s literature and adult literature is blurred. Children today appear more sophisticated and knowledgeable about certain life experiences than those of any previous generation.
Before the nineteenth century only a few books were written for the specific readership of children. Children read books written for adults, taking from them what they could understand. Today, children continue to read some books intended for adults. Books about children may not necessarily be for them. Also in adolescent literary works the readers are made to think and guess the plot or perhaps the ending of its story. For instants, a sentimental book like Love you Forever by Robert Munsch, despite its popularity with teachers, is really not for children. Its themes of the passing of childhood and the assumption of responsibility for an aging parent both reflect adult experiences.
The differences between children’s literature and adolescents’ literature are;
• Children’s literature is less frank than adult books.
• Children’s literature reflects the problems of today.
• Adolescent’s literature use wider language while children’s literature use daily language.
• Children’s literature usually have a picture and full color to helps the child get the message of its story. While the adolescents literature do not have any illustrations to explore their reading skills.
• Children’s literature usually uses the big font.
• Adolescents literature is unlimited by the experiences and also the understanding.
• Almost all the children’s literature has a happy ending story. While the adolescents literature sometimes is not happy ending.
• Adolescent’s literatures also use to include feeling of nostalgia.
• Young children love to repeat such refrains.
• Adult are more responsive than children to the clever, the slyly written and the sarcastic.
The examples of children’s literary works:
1. The Velveteen Rabbit, by: Margery William’s
2. Winnie The Pooh, by: A. A. Milne
3. The hobbit, by: J. R. R. Tolkien
4. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by: Mark Twain
5. David Copperfield, by: Charles Dickens
6. The Lost World, by: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
7. Peter Pan, by: J. M. Barrie
8. The Secret Garden, by: Frances Hodgson Burrett
9. The Three Musketeers, by: Aleixandre Dumas
10. The Magic Pudding, by: Norman Lindsay
The examples of adolescents’ literary works:
1. All Creatures Great and Small, by: James Herriot
2. To Kill a Mockingbird, by: Harper Lee
3. Speak, by: Laurie Halse Anderson
4. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
5. Chronicles of Narnia, by: C. S. Lewis
6. Harry Potter, by: J. K. Rowling
7. Cracker Jackson, by: Betsy Byars
8. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, by: Robert O’Brien
9. A Boy in the Doghouse, by: Betsy Duffey
10. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by: C. S. Lewis
The traditional criteria a work of fiction look at such elements as plot, setting, theme, characterization, style, point of view, and format. Special criteria need to be applied to different types of literature. Additional criteria are also needed to evaluate certain forms of fiction. The most important task of critics of any age is to identify the kind of book they are reading in order to apply the appropriate criteria for evaluation.
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