Eng/295 Children’s Literature

Assignment

This week’s focus is on foundations in children’s literature. Alphabets, chapbooks, and picture books are staples of children’s literature.

This week you will identify key attributes of these different genres and explore their significance to the study of children’s literature. Explain the importance of illustration in these books, which is a key to these genres. Find your selections on the Project Gutenberg web site.

Create a 6- to 8-slide presentation with speaker notes where you explain the importance of illustration in literature for children. Address examples from two or three texts among our readings this week. You choose those texts–they should be from the stories below on the Project Gutenberg list.

Include a description of the key attributes of children’s alphabooks, chapbooks, and picture books. These include line, color, textual effects, shapes, composition, and narrative quality of the images.