Child-Adolescent Literature Flashcards
(23 cards)
Children’s Lit Period: Stories told to comfort each other
Classical Period (500 BC - 450 AD)
(Classical Period) Short stories with animals personifying human traits
Aesop’s Fables
(Classical Period) Insights into cultures and universal truths
Greco-Roman Gods
Children’s Lit Period: Stories taught morals to children
Middle Ages
Child Lit. Middle Ages: Provide moral exemplars
Bible Stories
Child Lit. Middle Ages: Narrate adventures to guide children about life
National Epics
National Epic of England
Beowulf
National Epic of France
Song of Roland
National Epic of Germany
Nibelungenlied
National Epics of Greece
Iliad and Odyssey
National Epics of Italy
Aeneid and Divina Comedia
National Epics of India
Mahabharata and Ramayana
Bishop, who wrote children’s lesson books
Aldhelm
First English printer; published Aesop’s fables and King Arthur legends
William Caxton
Children’s Lit Period): New ideas & tech emerged
Renaissance
Storybooks and fairy tales (cheap, small, and portable)
Chapbooks
Wooden square texts with prayers and biblical stories (laminated and covered)
Hornbooks
Children’s Lit Period: Didactic, intellectual, moralistic stories
18th Century
Propelled children’s didactic writing
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Education shapes individuals and society
Emile (On Education) (Jean Jacques Rousseau)
Father of Children’s Lit; wrote moral rhymes and stories
John Newberry
Rhyme book teaching good behavior
A Little Pretty Pocket Book (John Newberry)
Wrote The Tales of Mother Goose
Charles Perrault
