Children's Literature
1600s-Puritan (Colonial Period) - correct answer-Bible of utmost importance, didacticism
epitomized
1700s - correct answer-Entertainment of child, cheerfulness creeps in
1800s - correct answer-First Golden Age of Children's Literature
1900s-present - correct answer-Newbery and Coldecott Awards
1940-1960 - correct answer-second Golden Age of Children's Literature
1960s - correct answer-Didacticism in Modern Dress; most important element--realism,
purpose--bilbiotherapy
5 benefits of reading aloud - correct answer-aid in discovering quality books, enrich
development of child, calm a restless group, entertainment, develop relationships
600-1500s - correct answer-children viewed as little adults, very little literature just for
children
A Child's Garden of Verses - correct answer-by Robert Louis Stevenson, greatest children's
poet
action and media - correct answer-two most important aspects of excellence in artwork
Aesop's Fables - correct answer-intended for adults, 185 pics
Aldhelm - correct answer-first in England to write lessons for children--question and answer
style
American Girl, Orphan Train - correct answer-examples of historical fiction for middle grades
2-4
Anselm - correct answer-wrote first encyclopedia for children
aspects of appealing poems - correct answer-clear, direct style (on their level); content with
action or humor, appeals to both boys and girls, includes motions, encourages participation
At the Sea - correct answer-by Robert Louis Stevenson
balanced story - correct answer-love, joy, conflict, resolution
ball players, founding fathers, President wives - correct answer-examples of
biographies/heros for upper grades 5-6
, Battledores - correct answer-Benjamin Collins, off-shoot of hornbook, three lief, cardboard
bibliotherapy - correct answer-providing therapy or understanding through books
Book of Curteseye - correct answer-no illustrations, book of rules for behavior
books published by Newbery - correct answer-Little Pretty Pocketbook, History of Little
Goody Two Shoes
Boxcar Children, Hardy Boys - correct answer-examples of mysteries for middle grades 2-4
Brothers Grimm - correct answer-traditional fantasy, collection of German folk tales,
example: Hansel and Gretel
builds character - correct answer-inspire love, courage, morality; right is uplifted, wrong is
corrected
chapbooks - correct answer-inexpensive paper books, sold by "chap men," affordable,
readable, no binding
Characteristics of 1800s - correct answer-quality and quantity of literature for children
increases, content changes to more creative, variety and fantasy, discovered childhood
characteristics of quality poetry - correct answer-good rhythm, rich language (vivid word
pictures, familiar expressed in new way) quality content (subject matter meaningful with
emotions, theme is interesting with action or humor)
characterization - correct answer-the people in the book; develop naturally, real-life
Children's Classics of the 1700s - correct answer-Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels,
Battledores
Civil War, horses - correct answer-example of particular topics for upper grades 5-6
Clifford, Peter Rabbit - correct answer-examples of animal books for nursery through 1st
grade
development of a child because of reading aloud - correct answer-good listener, attention
span, discussion of values
didacticism - correct answer-how to behave and what to believe
Didacticism in Modern Dress - correct answer-what to believe and how to behave in modern
situations
Divine and Moral Songs - correct answer-Isaac Watts, advice in rhyme
