Chinua Achebe’s novel, Chike and the River, perfectly displays the idea of working to achieve a dream. Although this novel is considered fiction, children can easily relate to the characters in the novel. Chike, a young boy from Nigeria, has…
The Straw House by Cao Wenxuan, is a Chinese children’s novel. Cao Wenxuan is a professor of Chinese literature at Beijing University, and is a two-time winner of Soong Ching Ling Children’s Literature Award. This novel was translated from Chinese…
Paul is a twelve-year-old farm boy living near a very small town in southern Australia in the year 1932. Due to a worldwide Great Depression, Paul and his family constantly struggle to make it by. Paul notes that after needing…
Pete Werner Ms. Nithya Sivashankar EDUTL 2368 April 18, 2019 werner.220 After having read two good Australian novels, The Arrival by Shaun Tan and Cuz by Liz Van Der Laarse, I became interested in children’s works coming out of Australia. …
The 39-Story Treehouse is written by Andy Griffiths and illustrated by Terry Denton (ISBN 978-1-250-02692-7). The book is set in Australia and is about two young boys and their adventures living in a 39-story treehouse. Ironically, the two characters in the…
CUZ Liz Van Der Laarse Fiction For ages 11 and up OneTree House Ltd, New Zealand, 2018 ISBN: 978-0-473-42188-5 Set in the far southern region of remote Argentina, Liz Van Der Laarse’s Cuz takes the intermediate, early-teen reader through…
For my second blog post I would like to discuss how children’s literature has evolved over time and why it did so. I think it is interesting to like into how things have evolved over time. Children’s books started to…
A topic that I always found fascinating in terms of children’s literature is the fact that in some places like North Korea, the material that is in children’s books is censored. The dynamic is unlike anything else. Instead of regular…
The book I chose to read and review was Ms Ice Sandwich by Mieko Kawakami. This book was originally published in Japan but was recently translated into English and thus started selling in the United States. It was Mieko’s first…
For this book review, I am going to write about on one of the major works of ancient India, Mahabharata. Importance of Mahabharata amongst the Indians places the text comparable to Bible and Quran. Mahabharata is an extensive, long and…