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Essentials of Children's Literature (6th Edition)

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I bought this book my final semester in college for a Children's Literature course. I signed up for the class as an elective, and found it so enlightening that I ended keeping the textbook (the ONLY one that I kept after a class ended!) The book has literally HUNDREDS of examples of each genre of children's literature, along with authors, award winners, and publication information. The format made it so easy for me to locate children's books for reports or projects I was working on. But mostly, the text facilitated my learning of the types of literature. Chapters and subchapters are divided into different branches of lit, and each has so many examples that the reader quickly learns to categorize different works. Additionally, now that I work in the printing and publishing world (writing and editing), I use this book as a great tool to gauge what appeals to children at different ages. I highly recommend this book to anyone in elementary education or creative writing.

This is one of the best overviews of children's literature I have EVER seen. I plan on using this book in my new job as a Library Media Specialist. Each children's genre is covered as well as outstanding books in each genre. A must have if you are working with children's or YA literature! BRAVO!

Excellent information and easy to follow. This book is written in such a pattern that anyone will be able to understand.

This text includes a great number of book lists for literature for each genre.
It provides a great description and numerous examples for each type of
literature. It highlights all the award winning books. Finally, this text provides
lots of ideas for promoting literature in the classroom.

This book is a wonderful children's literature resource. I absolutely love this book. It has so resources listed as well as information about picking up appropriate literature. Also has information about the history of children's literature and planning literature curriculum. This book would is my main resource for children's literature.

This product was great, it arrived in a timely fashion and was packaged safely and securely. The book itself was in better condition than I had expected, which was a nice surprise.

Great job

It is hard to keep up with what is going on in the Children's Literature. It seems I always trying to play catch up.

If you are entering into the educational field or have an interest in the Literary world, this book will help. Touches on all genres of literature. The author has a good knowledge of how to touch the lives of children through reading and writing. It has great teacher strategies for the student to use in the classroom.

I am pleased with the purchase from Amazon.com. It was a textbook that I needed for class. The price was reasonable, the book was in good condition, and it was delivered within a matter of days.

I needed this book for a university class I'm taking. It was by far the best price compared to the university bookstore and a few other sources I checked.