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ERIC Number: EJ397619
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1989
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Remembering Ezra Jack Keats and "The Snowy Day": What Makes a Children's Book Good?
Mikkelsen, Nina
Language Arts, v66 n6 p608-24 Oct 1989
Examines characteristics of quality children's literature by analyzing both children and adult responses to Ezra Keats' story, "The Snowy Day." Concludes that good literature calls forth a strong narrative voice from readers exploring their own realities as they read. (MM)
Descriptors: Adults, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Reader Response, Reader Text Relationship, Young Children
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Non-Classroom
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Childrens Responses; Keats (Ezra Jack); Quality Indicators; Response to Literature; Snowy Day (The); Writing Quality
Note: Theme Issue: Literacies.