Children's literature

The tag Children's literature is popular among bloggers who review books for children and by people discussing children's books, such as parents, teachers, librarians, book award committees, and booksellers. The tag is also often used by the authors, illustrators, editors and publishers who create children's literature. There are many web sites, professional organizations, and courses dedicated to children's literature.

It is generally thought that books referred to as children's literature are for readers up to age twelve. Books for young readers ages thirteen and above are referred to as young adult books or YA. Children's literature is categorized many different ways. Some categorize children's literature by genre, such as biography, fantasy & science fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Others categorize children's literature by format, such as board books, chapter books, easy readers, hardcover books, paperback books, picture books, and pop-up books. Children's literature is also categorized by reading level, such as easy readers and middle grade fiction.

Regardless of how they are categorized, many books termed children's literature are read and enjoyed by young adults and adults.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Children's literature”

• Children’s Poems About January

  
  One-Minute Book Reviews — Authority: 122
  Do poets have trouble finding rhymes for “hangover”? Or believe that all kids go to bed early on Dec. 31? For whatever reason, there are few good children’s New Year’s Day, compared with the many about Christmas, Thanksgiving and other major holidays. But John Updike wrote a lovely poem about January that ...
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• Gullivers Travels into Some Remote Countries/Google books

  
  Happy Hearts Homeschooling Library — Authority: 123
  Gullivers Travels rewritten for younger children. Gullivers travels into some remote countries Authors Jonathan Swift, James Baldwin Publisher American Book Co., 1908 Length 172 pages Overview
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• Book Review, The Australian Twelve Days of Christmas

  
  The Book Chook — Authority: 120
  The Australian Twelve Days of Christmas is a board book. Dont you love the way board books are made so robustly? Theyre perfect for toddler hands that havent yet learnt respect for books. But dont dismiss it as "just for toddlers" This charming picture book is illustrated by Heath McKenzie , and ...
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• On Santa Claus

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 524
  Ever wonder where the jolly father of Christmas came from?  Well I have! So I turned to Oxford Reference Online which led me to The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature . Below is an excerpt about everyone’s favorite man in red. Happy Holidays to all! Father Christmas/Santa Claus. Father ...
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• Becoming Alice

  
  Jacket Copy — Authority: 684
  Actress Mia Wasikowska tells the L.A. Times that it was "isolating" to take on the role of Alice in the upcoming Tim Burton film "Alice in Wonderland," based on the Lewis Carroll classics. "I was basically planted in this sea of green," the 20 year-old actress said; she shot about 90% of her scenes in front of a ...
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• Beautiful Illustrations from Soviet Childrens Books

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 770
  The artblog A Journey Around My Skull has a compilation of unusual and surreal illustrations from children’s books of the Soviet Union. This image is from the 1989 book Hello, I’m A Robot Stanislav Zigunenko and illustrated by E. Benyaminson. At the link, you’ll see the first post in a series about such ...
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• We the People Bookshelf

  
  ALSC Blog — Authority: 120
  The ALA Public Programs Office is pleased to partner with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for the seventh We the People Bookshelf project. This year’s theme, “A More Perfect Union,” invites reflection on the idea of the United States as a “union,” a “One” as well as a “Many,” and will ...
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• On Writing: How to Break the "Eliminate Bland Adjectives Rule" & Get Away With It!

  
  To Elysia and Back Again — Authority: 112
  My Institute for Children’s Literature * curriculum encourages writers to use specific rather than general words. For instance, using blue jay instead of bird and cobalt instead of blue conveys a specific picture. They gave us an exercise in which we had to replace bland, boring adjectives with more specific ones. ...
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• Reflecting on the Noughties

  
  educating alice — Authority: 470
  Nope, not the Naughties, but the Noughties as in noughts (e.g. zeroes), the 2000s.  Got it?  Wanting to comment on Betsy Bird’s post about the last ten years I went looking for a moniker and found the Noughties.  Not terribly popular, especially not among zero-using Americans, but it feels less cumbersome than ...
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• Five Great Fairy Tales Youve Never Heard Of

  
  A Writer's Desk — Authority: 139
  Wonders and Marvels illuminates readers with fairy tales that arent all that known about. For instance... 3. Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree is a Celtic Snow White variant, closely related to the Lay of Eliduc by Marie de France. It is one of my favorite variants because the second wife is ...
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• Alice in Wonderland: The Mathematical Satires

  
  crooked house — Authority: 117
  Image, by Andrew Hem, taken from his blog . Melanie Bayley explains the satires of mathematics in Alice : What would Lewis Carrolls Alices Adventures in Wonderland be without the Cheshire Cat, the trial, the Duchesss baby or the MadHatters tea party? Look at the original story that the author toldAlice ...
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• Claudette Colvin, winner

  
  LibrariAnne — Authority: 117
  Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice won the 2009 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Check out my post over at CPL.
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  Expat Mama — Authority: 111
  Local resources for bilingual familiesI just wanted to mention a couple of sites I ahev recently become aware of.Bilingual Readers is a new company that publishes bilingual books for children aged 0-7, but they also publish a blog and a newsletter with resources for bilingual families. They are a brand-new company ...
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• Gift Ideas for Kids — The Winners of 2009 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children’s Literature

  
  One-Minute Book Reviews — Authority: 122
  We won’t know the next winners of American Library Association’s Newbery and Caldecott medals until Jan. 18. But if you’re looking for ideas for children’s gifts before then, you might want to print and save this list of books that won the most recent Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards for excellence in ...
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• Christmas Magic All Year Round

  
  The Places You Will Go — Authority: 118
  From Tots to Teens , StarMag THERE are those who like to buy Christmas-themed books as Christmas gifts. Many of these books involve snow because ... Christmas means snow. Doesnt it? Well, actually, it doesnt - its just one thing Malaysians have been brainwashed into believing. Christmas is celebrated in December ...
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• Delilahs Dream

  
  The Book Chook — Authority: 120
  I d ont know author Ian Trevaskis , but Im sure he used me as a model for the picture book, Delilahs Dream . Its about a "fine young hen who dreams of reaching unimaginable heights. She is full of passion and dedicated to the pursuit of wild adventure." The Book Chook to a T, dont you think? You see, ...
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• StoryTubes 2010

  
  ALSC Blog — Authority: 120
  StoryTubes is the public library sponsored “two-minute or shorter” my favorite book online contest. Entries will be accepted from January 20 through February 28, 2010. The contest is open to all, with prize awards available to young people entering kindergarten through high school (K – 12). StoryTubes won ...
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• The Wee Christmas Cabin of Carn-na-ween by Ruth Sawyer

  
  Collected Miscellany — Authority: 123
  Another great book I came across at the library with my kids was The Wee Christmas Cabin of Carn-na-ween . As I love folklore and Christmas this was a perfect story for me.  Here is Publishers Weekly: Readers will want to pull up a creepie (stool) and gather ’round a roaring peat fire to hear every lilting word ...
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• H is for Home

  
  40 Forever — Authority: 111
  I think Perry Como sang it best: "Theres no place like H omer Price by Robert McCloskey . O h! by Kevin Henkes with illustrations by Laura Droznek . M y Car by Byron Barton. E ach Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allan Ahlberg . for the holidays." McCloskey , Robert. Homer ...
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• Now Playing: The Exquisite Corpse Adventure Episode Seven

  
  educating alice — Authority: 470
  Baby Max said, “Lollipop.” I’m beginning to think Baby Max could give Sunny Baudelaire a linguistic lesson or two. Read Shannon Hale’s witty contribution to the saga here .
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