This text shows readers how children's literature can capture the attention of K-8 students and foster a lifelong love of reading. The text covers learning about children's literature, understanding children's responses to literature, the history of children's literature, all the genres (beginning books, picture storybooks, traditional literature, fantasy, poetry, realistic fiction, historical fiction, biography, and informational books), planning the literature programme, and extending and evaluating children's understandings of literature.
- ISBN10 0030417708
- ISBN13 9780030417702
- Publish Date April 1987 (first published May 1976)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 February 1993
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Thomson Learning
- Imprint Harcourt College Publishers
- Edition 4th Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 650
- Language English