CHILDREN’S LITERATURE DEFINITION

A good-quality trade
books for children
Content and Quality Values Development from birth to
Content
adolescence, covering
Personal Values • Started as Oral
topics of relevance ad
Tradition until the
• Forthright • Enjoyment invention of printing iterest to children,…
• Humorous • Imagination and
• Suspenseful
press in 1400. through prose and
Inspiration
• Knowledge/Insights •
poetry, fiction and
Early books are
Quality • Understanding and entirely religious and nonfiction. (Lynch-
Empathy instructional. Brown et. al 2014)
• Originality • Heritage and Cultural
• Importance Identity • Before 1865, Children
of Ideas • Moral Reasoning read adult novels.
• Imaginative • Literacy and Artistic
Language Preference • The History of Little
• Artistic style Goody Two Shoes by
Academic Values Newbery in 1765.

• Alice’s Adventure in
• Cognitive
Wonderland by
Development
Charles Dodgson The body of written
• Reading
(Lewis Carroll) in works accompanying
• Writing
1865. illustrations produced
• Art Appreciation
• Content-Area to entertain and
• Alice became the
Subject instruct young people.
prototype for other
Children’s book. (Encyclopedia
Britannica)