Children's Books in Children's Hands: An Introduction to Their Literature - Softcover

Temple, Charles; Martinez, Miriam; Yokota, Junko

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0137074034 ISBN 13: 9780137074037

Publisher: Pearson College Div, 2010

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About the Author

Charles Temple is a banjo-picking storyteller and teacher educator at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Co-author of many books in the field of reading and language arts, including All Children Read, Understanding Reading Problems, and The Beginnings of Writing, Temple has also published several books for children. Temple has worked over the years with teachers in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Central and South American who are using literacy and literature to better students’ lives.

Miriam Martinez is a teacher educator at the University of Texas at San Antonio who thoroughly enjoys getting lost in good books, including children’s books. A recipient of the International Reading Association’s Arbuthnot Award which honors outstanding university teachers of children’s literature, Dr. Martinez co-edited Book Talk and Beyond: Children and Teachers Respond to Literature and What a Character! Character Study as a Gateway to Literary Understanding, both published by IRA.

Junko Yokota is a professor and director of the Center for Teaching through Children’s Books at National-Louis University in Chicago. She spent the first ten years of her career as a classroom teacher and librarian. She has published articles and review columns in a wide variety of reading/language arts and children’s literature journals, chapters in professional books, and Kaleidoscope: A Multicultural Booklist for Grades K-8, published by the National Council of Teachers of English.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson College Div
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0137074034
• ISBN 13: 9780137074037
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 572