Classroom Use of Selected Children's Books: Prosocial Development in Young Children

1982 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARY L. TREPANIER ◽  
JANE A. ROMATOWSKI
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Prosocial Development ◽  
Classroom Use

scholarly journals What do we read to our children? Messages concerning ethnic diversity in popular children’s books in the Netherlands

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ymke de Bruijn ◽  
Rosanneke A. G. Emmen ◽  
Judi Mesman
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Young Children ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Cultural Authenticity ◽  
Cultural Specificity ◽  
Cultural Details

AbstractChildren’s books can create opportunities for children to see themselves as well as others in different settings and stories, but cultural details and specificity within these stories can play an important role in the messages that children take away. Therefore, the present study aims to provide insight in the messages concerning ethnic diversity and various cultures in a subset of popular books that Dutch young children are likely to be exposed to. Books aimed at young children that were sold or borrowed most often or were awarded between 2009 and 2018 in the Netherlands are examined through the combined lens of critical race theory and critical multicultural analysis. Specifically, books including a protagonist or secondary character of color were selected. The study provides insight in the degree of cultural specificity and cultural authenticity, as well as prevailing power relations between characters and ideologies that are portrayed within the books. Results indicate that while cultural stereotypes and ideologies including White supremacy and eurocentrism are found only in a few books, cultural details are generally lacking and colorblindness is common in books aimed at young children. The study therefore underlines the particular need for books that are culturally specific and include authentic cultural details, to improve the reflection of various cultures and experiences of characters of color.

scholarly journals The Very Hungry Caterpillar in Tuscany

2013 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Picture Books ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Very Young Children ◽  
Specific Goal ◽  
Level Of Understanding

The volume publishes some essays illustrating experiences which attempted to promote reading with very young children in nurseries and infant schools, as part of a project on the picture books by Eric Carle, a well-known American illustrator of children's books. In particular, this initiative took place during the 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 school years, in a large number of nurseries and infant schools in some areas of Tuscany (Pistoia, Firenze, Grosseto, Livorno, Lucca, Viareggio, and the Empolese area). The main aim of the project, carried out as action-research, was to present the books of Eric Carle and investigate the level of understanding of the stories proposed by the famous illustrator. The specific goal of the project was to introduce teachers, educators, librarians and parents to the picture books written and illustrated by Eric Carle and translated into Italian.

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2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (12) ◽  
pp. 46-48
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Positive Behavior ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Red Squirrel ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
Child's Play ◽  
Humpty Dumpty

scholarly journals What might books be teaching young children about gender?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Molly Lewis ◽  
M. Cooper Borkenhagen ◽  
Ellen Converse ◽  
Gary Lupyan ◽  
Mark S. Seidenberg
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Large Scale Data ◽  
Occurrence Data ◽  
Gender Biases ◽  
Scale Data ◽  
Early Source

We investigate how gender is represented in children’s books using a novel 200,000 word corpus comprising 247 popular, contemporary books for young children (0-5 years). Using human judgments and word co-occurrence data, we quantified gender biases of words in individual books and in the whole corpus. We find that children’s books contain many words that adults judge as gendered. Semantic analyses based on co-occurrence data yielded word clusters related to gender stereotypes (e.g., feminine: emotions; masculine: tools). Co-occurrence data also indicate that many books instantiate gender stereotypes identified in other research (e.g., girls are better at reading and boys at math). Finally, we used large-scale data to estimate the gender distribution of the audience for individual books, and find that children tend to be exposed to gender stereotypes for their own gender. Together the data suggest that children’s books may be an early source of gender associations and stereotypes.

Death as Seen in Books Suitable for Young Children

1984 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol C. Ordal
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Grieving Process ◽  
Concrete Words

This article summarizes and evaluates thirty-four children's books which deal with death in terms of their usefulness in helping three- to nine-year-old children understand and cope with the concept of death. Included in the analysis are books dealing with death in plants, of an animal, and of a person. In addition, another seventeen books are commented on briefly. All of the books chosen for analysis explain death in a positive way by 1) using direct and concrete words and avoiding euphemisms, 2) involving the main characters in the funeral and at the cemetery, 3) showing respect for and acceptance of feelings, 4) understanding the child's grieving process, and/or 5) ending on a hopeful note with the main characters getting on with life. Some of the books are not only psychologically sound but have creative merit as well. They will help young children begin to make a dialectic synthesis of the opposites they encounter in life–e.g., sadness/joy, love/hate–and to understand that life and death are really one.

scholarly journals Tiny Creatures: The World of Microbes by N. Davies

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Plecash
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Blood Cell ◽  
White Blood Cell ◽  
Picture Book ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
The World ◽  
The Invisible

Davies, Nicola. Tiny Creatures: The World of Microbes. Illus. Emily Sutton. Somerville: Candlewick Press, 2014. Print.“Do you know that there are creatures so tiny that millions could fit on this ant’s antenna?” Tiny Creatures: The World of Microbes takes a close up look at the invisible world of microorganisms around us. Davies takes this potentially difficult topic and presents it in a way that is accessible to children. This picture book starts by comparing concrete ideas-- the size of a whale to the size of an ant’s antenna-- to help children visualize the size of these microbes. From there, the book goes on to explain that microbes are everywhere, even in volcanoes and our own bodies. Unlike other children’s books about germs, Davis does not focus on presenting microbes as evil monsters, with white blood cell super heroes. Instead, she frankly discusses how some microbes can make you sick, but the majority are “busy doing other things.” This is a nice movement away from the tendency in children’s books to insist that germs, generally, are the bad guys. Davis’ germs are not scary, but they are powerful.Instead of using text to show how to protect against these germs, the illustrator Emily Sutton presents pictures of children washing their hands and using mosquito netting. The watercolour artwork follows two young children exploring the world of microbes. The illustrations are bright, engaging, and effectively enhance and add to the text.Nicola Davis has published a number of children's books about nature, drawing on her expertise as a zoologist. Tiny Creatures is particularly welcome as there are so few options for books of this kind. With its accessible language and simple artwork, this book is a wonderful way to introduce children in kindergarten to grade three to the world of microbes.Highly recommended:  4 stars out of 4Reviewer:  Jenny Plecash

scholarly journals The Pedagogical Importance of Illustrations in Translated and Non-Translated Children’s Literature: An Intersemiotic Approach

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 613
Author(s):  
Nasrin Qorbani Sharif ◽  
Abbas Saeedipour
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Verbal Code ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Educational Value ◽  
Powerful Means ◽  
Children's Stories

<p><em>In Children’s literature the text is almost always paired with vivid illustration to appeal to children more effectively. For young children, the pictorial code is a more direct means of communication than the verbal code. Such children will look at the pictures and tell the story in their own words. Also, children’s books are used for different purposes at different times. Children’s literature, for example, is a powerful means of educating children, through which they will be exposed to the set of behaviors deemed appropriate. That’s why illustrations in children’s stories are so important. Therefore</em><em>,</em><em> it is necessary to pay close attention to the illustrations and the relationships they hold with the linguistic texts of the story. The illustrations will serve better if they are educational.</em><em> </em><em>In the present study a number of translated and original Persian children story books were collected. All the books have illustrations which accompany the texts of the books. Then all the texts were studied carefully, analyzed and compared with their accompanying pictures (or illustrations). Each picture was analyzed based on its educational value. The results of the study revealed that there are significant differences in illustrations in translated and non-translated children story books.</em><em></em></p>

THE BOOK OF ACCIDENTS: DESIGNED FOR YOUNG CHILDREN

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-139
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Cone
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Accident Prevention ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Children's Book

In 1830 a long-forgotten printer published a small chapbook by an unknown author bearing the title The Book of Accidents; Designed for Young Children. This small paper-covered book, which remains unlisted in any of the standard bibliographies of children's books, contains a number of lessons written for children illustrating in both prose and woodcut some of the pitfalls to which children are liablefalling out of a window, falling out of a coach, playing with firearms, crossing streets, tumbling down stairs, and so forth. Although written almost a century and a half ago, many of our readers may find these lessons more effective—and I suspect a good deal more engaging—than most of the contemporary accident prevention pamphlets written for children. The appearance in 1830 of a children's book concerned with accidents may come as a surprise because, to my knowledge, none of the standard pediatric texts contained such information until the turn of the century.

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