Growing Up with Literature

The book details:

• Title: Growing Up with Literature.
• Author(s): Walter E. Sawyer, EdD.
• Publisher: Wadsworth.
• Language: American English.
• Size: 5.35 Mb.
• Format: PDF .
• Date: 2012, 6 Edition.
• Pages: 400.

GROWING UP WITH LITERATURE, Sixth Edition, provides a practical and understandable presentation of how to use children's literature/picture books to enhance literacy and language development in children ages birth to eight years. You will learn effective strategies for selecting and evaluating books, planning reading experiences, sharing stories with children, and using stories to help children deal with stress and problems (bibliotherapy). All genres of literature are addressed, including ABC/Counting books, folk and fairy tales, fables, and traditional/contemporary fiction and nonfiction. With 200 new children's literature titles, and up-to-date research on language development and brain development, this edition is on the cutting edge of knowledge in this area.


This text presents a novel approach to viewing language and literacy development in young children that I have not seen in other texts on children's literature. …[I]t bridges the gap between children's literature and language and literacy in a way that makes sense to my students. It is just the kind of instructional material I have been looking for." -Donna Rafanello, M.Ed., Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA

"I would strongly recommend this book for courses for the associate degree student because of its content, approach, readability and general appeal." - Gail E. Wentworth, Ed.D., State University of New York Cobleskill College, Cobleskill, NY.