World War 2 or the Second World War
RAF
• Conflict and the rise of axis powers -
Germany, Italy, Japan
• Allies - France, Great Britain, the United
States, USSR, China
• The 40,000,000-50,000,000 deaths incurred in
the World War II make it the bloodiest conflict, as
well as the largest war, in history.
Major events in WW2
◦ Blitzkrieg
- Germany trapping France
- Most successful strategy
◦ Dunkirk
- Aircraft- Luftwaffe
-Civilians - The one whos donating
things.
- civilian helped the soldiers
◦ The Battle of Britain
- RAF- royal airbee-supermarine
◦ Pearl Harbor
- Attack of Japanese (bomming)
◦ Midway
- American won in this event.
- Surprise attract after pearl harbor
- Midway is an island
◦ Stalingrad
◦ Doomsday
- Dunkirk is the opposite of
Doomsday.
- Babawain ang France from
Germany
- German civilians
◦ Bulge
- Rules in war
- Attack the territory
- Goods
- Soldiers
◦ Dresden Firestorm - Bombing of Dresden by
◦ Buchenwald
◦ Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Most tragic happening in WW2
Studies in child psychology, especially those
by Jean Piaget and advances in early
childhood education, such as those made by
Montessori helped refocus on the development
of the child as an individual.
Jean Piaget - Cognitive Development Theory
Montessori - Self-paced — Kindergarten.
in 1946
Dr. Benjamin Spock published The Common
Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, which
revolutionuzed how society as a whole looked at
children.
• Spock’s influence was widespread and he
used it to advance for the personal needs of
the child.
• Children’s Literature began to flourish on a
variety of fronts. The theme running through all
the literature of this period is the focus on
Children themselves their likes, dislikes,
triumphs, and tragedies.
• The Didactic, adult tone of so much of early
children’s literature no longer succeeded in
this new childcentered environment-and,
indeed adults are often depicted in the
unflattering light in these new books, for
they are portrayed as children often see them.
1. Focus on real children (animal and toy
character, although still found, especially in
books for the very young age are relatively
rare).
2. Modern Fantasy does not have the romantic
and escapist quality found in much of
fantasy written between the two world wars.
3. Greater realism in children’s books.
4. The family story has been perpetuated in a
way that has given a less romanticized
vision in the family.
5. In this new child-centered environment,
adults are
6. To correct the cultural disparity that once
prevail in children’s literature through the
 1950s, it was virtually impossible to find a - Pilandok - Filipino literature equivalent of Anansi
children book that included any but very
white children. ◆ Disney the Spider.
1. The other notable trend in modern realism is - Anansi the spider is an african folktale character
what has come to be known as the new who is associated with skill and wisdom and
realism, characterized by a franker and more often triumphs over foes larger than he.
open approach in subjects once through - He is known as the god of stories, wisdom,
taboo in children’s books: sexuality, violence, knowledge, and trickery.
drugs, war, and so on.
GREAT BRITAIN
Roald Dahl (1916-1990) - SCOTLANT
- ENGLAND
• Matilda - WALES
• James and the Giant Peach UK
• the BFG (The Big Friendly Giant) - SCOTLAND
• Charlie in the Chocolate Factory - Willy Wonka - ENGLAND
(LONELY) (Book 1) - NOTHERN IRELAND
• Charlie and the invisible elevator (Book 2) BRITISH ISLE
- SCOTLAND
Joanne Kathleen (J.K.) Rowling (1965-) —— - ENGLAND
J.K. Rowling — Robert Galbraith (Pseudonym) - WALES
- N. IRELAND
• Harry Potter A WRINKLE IN TIME
◦ Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone - TIME TRAVEL
(UK version) - THE FATHER DIDN’T COMEBACK
SO THE DAUGTHER WILL FIND IT.
◦ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (US
version) —- First Books.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944)

• Author of The Little Prince

Afro-Asian Children’s Literature

African Children Literature (Dark Literature)

• It equips children and young adult with the

appropriate knowledge and attitude towards
creation
• African peoples regard natural objects and
phenomena as being inhabited by living things
◦ Divinities

◦ Spirits

• Children Lit across the continent celebrates

very gifted animals that survive against all
odds.
• These little animals go through difficult times
and terrain, and succeed in the face of
hardships.

Anansi the Spider