2010 IRC CONFERENCE QUITO
Mayra Carolina Rodriguez IRC Managua
Building a Children’s collection
@Your Library
Why Children’s Literature
• Invest in our children’s future• Make readers out of them• Pass on our culture – build tolerance• Moral values• Every college or university that
prepares teachers should have a children’s collection.
• Develops the imagination• Connect to the world!
Types of Children’s Books
• Easy or beginning reading for preschoolers (Dr. Seuss, Bernstein Bears)
• Picture books • Chapter books• Young adult literature
FolkloreHistory
Fantasy Fairy Tales
Horror
Black HistoryCrime FictionEnvironment
Historical FictionSF/Fantasy
Award Winning Books
• Newberry• Caldecott• Coretta Scott King
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