DIFFERENCES

EFFERENT AESTHETIC

Text focuses
Cognitive Final product Comprehension Factual Information Public understanding Quantitative aspect of meaning

Reader focuses
Affective On going process Transaction Emotional Enjoyment Personal connection Qualitative aspects of meaning

Poetry

Picture books

Contemporary realistic fiction

Fantasy

Genres of childrens literature

Traditional literature

Biography

Non- fiction

Historical fiction

Science fiction

THE VARIOUS GENRES OF CHILDRENS LITERATURE

No. 1. Genre Poetry Description Works of careful chosen, condensed and artfully arranged language (unique and unusual ways) Works in which illustrations and text combine equally to tell a story Example Where the Sidewalk Ends ( Silverstein, 1981) Tar Beach (Ringgold, 1992)

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Picture Books Traditional literature

- Stories that have been told for many Lon Po Po: A Red years across many cultures. Riding Hood Story - First orally and then written down. from China (Young, 1990) -Stories told in the real or unreal world. -The characters or events dont really exists. -Depends on magic or supernatural Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone (Rowling, 1997)

Fantasy

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Genre Science fiction

Description Stories that explore the possibilities of science through invention or extension of the laws of nature.

Example The Giver ( Lowry, 1990)

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Contemporary realistic fiction Historical fiction

Stories of real people, living here and Smoky Night now (Bunting, 1995) Stories set in a real time and place in history but with some fictional characters. Encounter ( Yolen, 1992)

Biography

Stories about the lives of real people. Duke Ellington (Pinkney & Pinkney, 1999) Books of information about a variety of topics in the real world. Harlem ( Myers, 1998)

Non- fiction