Children's Literature

EL ED 340 | University Course

Trends and titles in children's and adolescent literature. Reading and critiquing as well as practical uses of children's literature in both school and home.

Course Details

Note

In addition to the required textbook and novels listed in the "Textbooks" section, students will also need to have access to over 50 additional books of children's literature of their choosing (see syllabus for details).

Children’s Literature – Bet You Can’t! and Charlotte’s Rose is also available in a digital format for purchase here.

Course Outline

1. Why Read?
2. Books for the Young
3. History of Children's Literature, Classics, and Genre
4. Traditional Fantasy: Folk and Fairy Tales
5. Modern Fantasy
6. Contemporary Realistic Fiction, Humor, and Mystery/Suspense
7. Adventure, Historical Fiction, and Biography
8. Poetry
9. Informational Books
10. The Classroom

Syllabus

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Textbooks

	BYU Store	Vital Source (eBook)	Amazon*	Library
Children of the Dust Bowl (Required) by: Jerry Stanley ISBN: 9780517880944 1992 Yearling	Used: $8.25 Rental: $4.99 New: $10.99	Purchase from: $5.99	New from $4.90 Collectible from $54.00 Used from $2.49	Borrow
Children's Lit BrieflyChildern’s Lit Briefly- 7th Edition (Required) by: M. Tunnell ISBN: 9780135185872 2019 Pearson	New: $79.99 Rental: $22.99	Purchase from: $74.99 Rental from: $44.99	Used from $60.45 New from $63.99	Borrow
Lincoln: a Photobiography (Required) by: Russell Freedman ISBN: 9780395518489 1989 Clarion Books		Purchase from: $9.99	Used from $1.15 Collectible from $6.00 New from $6.00	Borrow
Stargirl (Required) by: Jerry Spinelli ISBN: 9780375822339 Novel		Purchase from: $7.99	Used from $0.36 Collectible from $19.00 New from $3.99	Borrow
The Book of Three (Required) by: Lloyd Alexander ISBN: 9780805080483 2006 Square Fish			Buy on Amazon	Borrow
The Dark is Rising (Required) by: Susan Cooper ISBN: 9780689829833 1999 Margaret K. McElderry Books	New: $7.99	Purchase from: $7.99	Used from $0.99 New from $3.70 Collectible from $4.35	Borrow
The Wednesday Wars (Required) by: Gary D. Schmidt ISBN: 9780547237602 Novel	New: $8.99 Rental: $6.99	Purchase from: $4.71	New from $0.69 Collectible from $5.95 Used from $0.99	Borrow
The Witch of Blackbird Pond, (Required) by: Elizabeth George Speare ISBN: 9780547550299 Novel	New: $8.99	Purchase from: $4.71	Collectible from $5.00 Used from $1.32 New from $6.88	Borrow
1. Choose one of these two books: (Required)
Harry Potter (Any from the Series) by: J K Rowling ISBN: 9780590353427 Novel			New from $18.40 Used from $14.40	Borrow
Tuck Everlasting by: Natalie Babbitt ISBN: 9780374480097 Novel		Purchase from: $9.99	Collectible from $53.00 New from $20.06 Used from $1.30	Borrow
2. Choose one of these two books: (Required)
Frindle by: Andrew Clements ISBN: 9780689818769 Novel	Rental: $5.40 Used: $6.00 New: $7.99	Purchase from: $8.99	Collectible from $14.99 Used from $0.50 New from $4.50	Borrow
Skinnybones by: Barbara Park ISBN: 9780679887928 1997 Yearling	New: $8.99	Purchase from: $6.99	Collectible from $2.88 New from $4.00 Used from $0.99	Borrow
3. Choose one of these two books: (Required)
View From the Cherry Tree by: Willo Davis Roberts ISBN: 9781481439947 Alladdin		Purchase from: $7.99	New from $6.63 Used from $2.15	Borrow
Wait Till Helen Comes by: Mary Downing Hahn ISBN: 9780380704422 Novel		Purchase from: $4.19	Collectible from $9.75 New from $5.28 Used from $0.31	Borrow
4. Choose one of these two books: (Required)
So Far from the Bamboo Grove by: Yoko Watkins ISBN: 9780688131159 Novel	New: $6.99	Purchase from: $3.66	Collectible from $2.50 New from $5.35 Used from $0.99	Borrow
Year of the Impossible Goodbyes by: Sook Nyul Choi ISBN: 9780440407591 1993 Yearling		Purchase from: $8.90	New from $2.99 Collectible from $5.95 Used from $0.95	Borrow
5. Choose one of these two books: (Required)
Bet You Can't by: Vicki Cobb ISBN: 9780380545025 1983 HarperCollins			Collectible from $4.99 New from $18.63 Used from $0.35	Borrow
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by: Susan Campbell Bartoletti ISBN: 9780439353793 2005 Scholastic	Used: $14.60 New: $19.45		New from $12.99 Collectible from $9.90 Used from $1.77	Borrow
6. Choose one of these two books: (Required)
Charlotte's Rose by: Cannon ISBN: 9780385729666 2004 Yearling			New from $9.95 Used from $1.95	Borrow
The Devil's Arithmetic by: Jane Yolen ISBN: 9780142401095 Novel		Purchase from: $7.99	New from $5.98 Used from $1.15	Borrow

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