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Frindle is a middle-grade American children's novel written by Andrew Clements, illustrated by Brian Selznick, and published by Aladdin Paperbacks in 1996. It was the winner of the 2016 Phoenix Award, which is granted by the Children's Literature Association annually to recognize one English-language children's book published twenty years earlier that did not win a major literary award at the ...
The book is aimed at preschool-aged children, although a few messages are more likely understood by adults, and contains some 117 words. [27] The Washington Post characterized the work thusly: "It captures perfectly Clinton's vision of a multicultural America working toward a constructive goal.
The Frameline Film Festival said that the film "boldly turned the minefield of teaching about LGBTQ issues in elementary schools into a navigable playing field" and "was instrumental in bringing queer issues into elementary school curricula." [21] The book Voices of Transgender Children in Early Childhood Education used the film as an example ...
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.
19. Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce (1958). Considered by many to be one of children’s literature’s most outstanding examples. Tom is packed away to stay with his aunt and uncle ...
Title page for an 1801 edition of Lessons for Children, part I. Lessons for Children is a series of four age-adapted reading primers written by the prominent 18th-century British poet and essayist Anna Laetitia Barbauld. Published in 1778 and 1779, the books initiated a revolution in children's literature in the Anglo-American world.
The Wheel on the School is a novel by Meindert DeJong, a Dutch-born American, that won the 1955 Newbery Medal for children's literature and the 1957 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis. The book was illustrated by noted author and illustrator Maurice Sendak .
The book has been used to teach children environmental ethics. [15] An educational resource for children describes the book as an "allegory about the responsibilities a human being has for living organisms in the environment". [16] Lisa Rowe Fraustino states that "some curricula use the book as a what-not-to-do role model". [13]