Children's Literature Resources

Essentials of Children's Literature, 8/e is designed to awaken and motivate readers to the joy of reading. It presents a rich array of available trade books that can be used effectively to teach children's literature, while also ensuring coverage of the most important knowledge about literature and about teaching literature to children. Clear, concise, and direct, the book uses recommended book lists, examples, figures, and tables in combination with narrative and prose to empower teachers to free classroom time to involve children with literature.

This book focuses on children's literature ranging through English literature of the last century as seen in the writings of Lewis Carroll, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, P.L. Travers, Mollie Hunter and J.K. Rowling. It includes American literary traditions evident in native American and African American folklore and current analyses of those traditions. It explores the adventures, fantasy and dreams in some of the most influential children's literature of the past 150 years.