ISL TASK | WEEK 1: Choose a definition for Childrens Literature and justify your choice.

DEFINITIONS FOR CHILDRENS LITERATURE1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childrens_literature Books intentionally written for children. Books chosen for children.

2. http://www.uleth.ca/edu/currlab/handouts/genre s.html Both fiction and non-fiction books, written especially for children 0-12 years old.

3. http://www.faqs.org/childhood/Ch- Co/Children-s-Literature.html comprises texts that have been written specifically for children and those texts that children have selected to read on their own intended primarily for children but it is more accurate to view such texts as having dual audiences of children and adults. The body of written works and accompanying illustrations produced in order to entertain or instruct young people.

4. Anderson,N.A. (2002). Elementary childrens literature: the basics for teachers and parents (2nd ed). USA: Pearson Education,Inc The only limitations, then, that seem binding on literature for children are those that appropriately reflect the emotions and experiences of children today. Childrens books are books that have the childs eye at the centre. The uniqueness of childrens literature, then, lies in the audience that it addresses. Authors of childrens books are circumscribed only by the experiences of childhood The author who can bring these experiences imagination and insight and communicate them to children is writing childrens literature.

5. Carol Lynch-Brown, Carl M.Tomlinson. (2005). Essentials of Children Literature: Learning about Children and Their Literature (5th ed). USA: Pearson Education,Inc.Childrens literature is good quality trade books for children from birth to adolescence, covering topics of relevance and interests to children of those ages, through prose and poetry, fiction and nonfiction. (p. 3)

DEFINITION Childrens literature is the good-quality written work with the purpose of entertainment and information intended primarily for children from birth to adolescence, covering topics of relevance and interests to children that appropriately reflect the experiences and the realms of childhood, through prose and poetry, fiction and nonfiction.JUSTIFICATION good quality the personal and academic values to children moral values and insight into human condition

With the purpose of entertainment and information enjoyed by children messages within the text

intended primarily for children from birth to adolescence to address, entertain and delight children of those ages may have dual audiences of children and adults

covering topics of relevance and interests to children about the experiences of childhood that are good or bad, set in the past, present or future be relevant and common to children today the source of literature is life itself enjoying birthday parties, losing a tooth for the first time, getting a new pet topics like Mummies and Dinosaurs

appropriately reflect the experiences and the realms of childhood limited by childrens experience and understanding the emotional and psychological responses should be inside the realms of childhood told in a forthright, humorous, or suspenseful manner much is known, but little is explained

through prose and poetry, fiction and nonfiction purely entertaining, with no instructional purpose like textbook myths, fairly tales, lullabies, fables, folk songs