Choosing Children’s Books
Posted on | July 1, 2009 | 2 Comments
The desirable and valuable features a children book should have:
- character development
- color
- with human courage, cleverness or grit as examples
- suspense
- humour/wit
- fantasy
- surprise
- repetition
- hope
- charm
- sensitivity
- realistic dialogue
- cultural insight
- action
- predicatability
Benefits of illustrations:
- Provision of pleasure
- Nourishment of the imagination
- Promotion of creative expression
- Development of imaginary
Categories of children books:
- Story books (picture books)
- family and home
- folktales and fables
- fanciful stories
- fairy tales
- animal stories
- others
- Nonfiction books
- Wordless books
- Interaction books
- Concept books
- Predictable books
- References books
- Alphabet and word books
- Novelty books and magazines
- Teacher- and child- made books
- Therapeutic books
- Seasonal and holiday books
- Books and audiovisual combinations
- Toddler books and board books
- Multicultural and cross-cultural books
- Oversized books
Category: Language and Literacy for Young Children
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August 1st, 2009 @ 5:36 pm
I actually prefer those books with the really thick pages =-P
Otherwise kids will always get their hands on the books and rip them, so books rarely last very long.
August 2nd, 2009 @ 3:48 pm
Yea but depends on the age also.