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”

 

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  Back to normality (and I dont like it...)        The courses are both finished. The final assignment was sent in yesterday, and Im trying to get used to being able to do what I want. Im feeling guilty writing the blog, as Im so used to using it as a diversion from studying. Ive been looking back on what I ...
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• Childrens Corner: Power Rangers Super Samurai Official Guide

  
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  Review: Who knew there was so much to know about Power Rangers Samurai!?!! I didnt. This was another book fair find for my son. Its good thing its broken up in sections/chapters because it would take me at least 3 hours to read it cover to cover. For those who have kids into this tv series then this is the book for ...
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• Booktalking "Which Side Are You On?" by George Ella Lyon

  
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  This book is the story of a song written by Florence Reece in 1931. Florences son tells how his father is a miner, their family resides in a company house, and his father gets paid in money that is only good at the company store. The boys father says that this is why they need a union. The workers ask for better ...
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• Adventures in Audio: The Best “Audiobook in the Car” Story I’ve Ever Heard

  
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  I was at a dinner earlier this week at The Stockade Inn in Schenectady, NY, in celebration of the Children’s Literature Connection . It was an intimate, modest, friendly event with under 100 attendees, featuring keynote addresses by Karen Beil and Jennifer Armstrong . I love this photo of Karen in the ...
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• You Couldn’t Make This Up

  
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  May brings many opportunities for booklists, displays, and book sharing–Mother’s Day, of course, being the big one, and we all have our favorite children’s books about mothers. However, I want to use my posts to highlight nontraditional as well as traditional ideas for booklists and book sharing.  While ...
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• 2013 Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts

  
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  This wonderful list of thirty titles is selected by a committee of NCTE’s Children’s Literature Assembly . Congratulations to all the honored book creators and to the members of this year’s committee for their fine work: Tracy Smiles, Chair; Donalyn Miller, Patricia Bandre, Yoo Kyung Sung, Barbara Ward, ...
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• Booktalking "Wild About Books" by Judy Sierra

  
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  One day, librarian Molly decided to drive her mobile library van into the zoo, and all of the animals were flummoxed! She read from Dr. Seuss and the zoo animals were drawn toward her. They were fascinated by reading, and went  wild over the many different kinds of books that the library van displayed. The ...
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• Literacy Connections to Robotics

  
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  Interest in student robotics is on the rise thanks to the awareness of the need to introduce students to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines through hands-on, inquiry-based practices. From the early-childhood to the high-school STEM classroom, students can be seen exploring robotics in ...
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• New Jimmy Liao features on the PaperTigers website

  
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    We are very excited to welcome artist Jimmy Liao to our Gallery on the PaperTigers website.  I love this illustration from his book The Sound of Colors , and I first fell in love with Jimmy’s work when I encountered The Blue Stone a few years ago.  Then, at the Bologna Book Fair in 2010, I was ...
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• Excitement building for the Asian Festival of Children’s Content ~ May 25 – 30, Singapore

  
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  The excitement is building for the Asian Festival of Children’s Content being held May 25 – 30 in Singapore. PaperTigers is proud sponsor of the AFCC, an annual event that brings together content creators and producers with parents, teachers, librarians and anyone interested in quality Asian content for children ...
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• Travel to a book!

  
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  At the beginning of our lives, many of us grow to love books. The stories often take place in magical settings or simply places we’ve never been and so seem magical to little readers. I came across a wonderful blog post about popular children’s books and the places that inspired them.  The comments below the [...]
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  Halfway to getting my life back       Yesterday I finished my Creative Writing course. Finishing my final assignment was an act of procrastination in itself, as it was a way of getting out of my Childrens Lit work. These final two assignments are worth 50% of each course result - if I fail them, I fail the ...
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• New Most Loved Children’s Books [Infographic] – Stephens Lighthouse

  
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  Via MAT@USC: Become a Teacher
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• When the Syllabus Goes Wrong

  
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  I cannot tell a lie.  My new course is a failure. This semester, I did a complete overhaul on the English course I teach for Child Studies majors.  The earlier version of the course was a solid one.  It focused on the topic of childhood relationships in literature: parent-child relationships, sibling ...
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• Appreciating Aboriginal Dreamtime Stories*

  
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  An Introduction for non-Australians   Emily Gap N.T. Indigenous Australians were the original inhabitants of the continent we know today as Australia. They include Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders. Together they make up 2.5% of Australias population today.  It is ...
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• The YA/MG Turf Wars

  
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  Some may recall my rant “ Stop Calling Books for Kids ‘Young Adult ‘” and the place I created to document the most egregious errors,” It’s a Children’s Book (Not Young Adult!) .”  Some time after that the New York Times recognized the difference by creating distinctive children’s middle grade and ...
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• 5 Life Lessons from Harry Potter

  
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  The list , care of the Huffington Post.
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• The Lions of Little Rock

  
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  Here’s the problem with me and books in the Cybils Challenge — I reserve them at the library without knowing what they’re about. The Lions of Little Rock was one of those books. Little Rock in the 50s, so no, I wasn’t really surprised when Liz showed up at school and I knew immediately that Liz was trying ...
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• Childrens Corner: Olivia ...and the Missing Toy

  
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  The other day my daughter asked, "Wheres my Olivia book?" This surprised me, because we havent watched Olivia in a long time.  I led her to her book case and showed her the several books that are spin offs of the television show, but she said none of them were right... she wanted the black and white one.  I knew ...
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• Book Finds: In The Night Kitchen

  
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  We stopped by the library this afternoon to pick up a movie my daughter wanted to watch ( Tangled if you must know). We were in a hurry as the library closes early on Saturday but I had to make a quick check of the Friends of the Library sale section before we left. And I am glad I did as I picked up a copy of ...
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