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Children's books also benefit children's social and emotional development. Reading books help "personal development and self-understanding by presenting situations and characters with which our own can be compared". [185] Children's books often present topics that children can relate to, such as love, empathy, family affection, and friendship.
Dick and Jane are the two protagonists created by Zerna Sharp for a series of basal readers written by William S. Gray to teach children to read. The characters first appeared in the Elson-Gray Readers in 1930 and continued in a subsequent series of books through the final version in 1965. These readers were used in classrooms in the United ...
The Magic School Bus is a series of children's books about science, written by Joanna Cole and illustrated by Bruce Degen.Designed for ages 6-9, they feature the antics of Ms. Valerie Felicity Frizzle and her class, who board a sentient anthropomorphic mini school bus which takes them on field trips to impossible locations, including the solar system, clouds, the past, and the human body.
Fors Clavigera, by John Ruskin (1871–1884) [10] If-, by Rudyard Kipling (1910) Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse (1952) Sophie's World, by Jostein Gaarder (1991) The Wizard of Gramarye series by Christopher Stasheff (1968–2004) Children's Books in England: Five Centuries of Social Life. by F. J. Harvey Darton [11]
This is a list of classic children's books published no later than 2008 and still available in the English language. [1] [2] [3] Books specifically for children existed by the 17th century. Before that, books were written mainly for adults – although some later became popular with children.
A 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed the book as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children." [9] According to an elementary school teacher in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Donna M. Sawyer, Shannon’s story encourages students to consider their own experiences to develop a personal connection. [10]
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A 2007 German study found that an above-average number of Waldorf students become teachers, doctors, engineers, scholars of the humanities, and scientists. [10] A 2003 evaluation by education scholars David Jelinek and Li-Ling Sun compared a group of American Waldorf school students to American public school students on three different test ...