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García-González, Macarena – Children's Literature in Education, 2020
This article analyses texts intended for child audiences--picturebooks, a poetry book, and a film--that deal with the Chilean dictatorship (1973-1990). The memorialization practices within children's media appear to be modelled on the difficulties of finding a national consensus regarding the events that transpired during the dictatorship and the…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Picture Books, Poetry, Films
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Kesler, Ted – Children's Literature in Education, 2012
An increasingly prevalent and accessible form of hybrid nonfiction picture books blends factual information with poetry or poetic devices to create literary nonfiction. This important form of hybrid text has been sparsely examined. This article addresses three questions about poetic nonfiction picture books: first, how might we categorize picture…
Descriptors: Reading, Poetry, Nonfiction, Picture Books
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Crisp, Shelley J. – Children's Literature in Education, 1991
Discusses in detail 10 books selected as the best children's poetry published in the 1980s, as well as 6 others receiving honorable mention. Appends a suggested reading list of 21 picture books, 53 single-author collections, and 25 anthologies. (SR)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Children, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education