English Literature A '07

Name: Annisa Nuryamin

SID: 0705889

Class: Non_Edu A1

Valuing literature for children

Knowing children literature

Children introduction to literature comes in the crib as babies listen to mother Goose rhymes and nursery songs.

Commonly, children will hear stories two or three times a day. When hear the stories, they begin to identify and this process build their imagination.

Children’s literature is a part of the mainstream of all literature, whose source is life itself. Children attend to interested in illogic stories, for example “alice in the wonderland” is one of the greatest book for child.

What is children literature?

Before the 19^th century only a few books were written for the specific readership of children. In this era children used to read books written for adults.

To kill mocking bird presence of child protagonist, then, doesn’t assure that the book is for children. Obviously, the line between children’s literature and adult literature is blurred.

Children literature is limited because their experience and their understanding.

E. H White said

“Anyone who writes to children is simply wasting his time”

C. S Lewis

“Children’s story was the best art form for what he had to say”

There are two kinds of values of children literature

1. Personal values

· Provides enjoyment

· Reinforces narrative as away of thinking

· Develops their imagination

· Develops insight into human behavior

· Present the universality of experience

2. Educational values

· Language development

· Literature and reading

· Literature and writing

· Literature and critical thinking

· Literature across the curriculum

· Introducing our literary heritage

The criteria of evaluating children books are:

• Plot
• Setting
• Theme
• Characterization
• Style
• Point of view
• Illustration
• Format
• Comparison to others