1. HISTORICAL FICTION
PICTURE BOOKS Traditional Literature
written to portray a time
Provide visual experience period, convey information -passed down from
fully explained or illustrated about a specific time period generation to generation
with pictures and historical event
may or may not be text with the authors use historical fiction E.g.: Folktales , fairy
book to create drama tales, fables, legends,
myth
PICTURE STORY BOOKS
contain pictures or illustrations MODERN FANTASY
Text and illustration are important to
the development of the story imaginative tales require young readers
to accept elements and story lines that
GENRES IN CHILDREN’S clearly cannot be true
REALISTIC FICTION
LITERATURE animals that talk, elements of science
written for today's youths, fiction, supernatural or horror, or
representing contemporary times, combinations of these elements
based on real-world situations E.g.: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate
based on current events Factory, The Wizard of Oz
books present a "real-world"
problem or challenge and show how
POETRY AND DRAMA
a young person solves that problem
BIOGRAPHY introduce children to verse,
prose, rhythm, rhyme, writing
NON-FICTION OR INFORMATIONAL non-fiction that is based on
styles, literary devices,
BOOKS the life of a person
symbolism, analogies, and
can also be extremely
designed to help readers learn more metaphors.
motivating
about real things
traditionally been used for academic
study and research projects