This may occur in the past, present, or the future. It may be in a specific locale, or be vague.
What is the setting?
100
This award is given to books to honor the illustrations in children's books.
What is the Caldecott Award?
100
This genre should relate to the familiar experiences of childhood and should not be didactic or overly sentimental. Children should not be required to analyze it for technical elements.
What is poetry?
100
The House That Jack Built, The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, and The Enormous Turnip are all examples of this kind of folktale
What is a cumulative tale?
100
This author/illustrator won many awards and produced such classics as The Very Busy Spider and Brown Bear, Brown Bear.
Who is Eric Carle?
200
In books where this is done well, the people portrayed are convincingly real and lifelike. The author is able to show their true natures, strengths, and weaknesses.
What is characterization?
200
These first and last pages of the book are glued to the inside of the cover while the other is not pasted down. They are usually stronger paper than printed pages. They are frequently illustrated and can reflect he setting, theme, or content of the book and serve as a special invitation to the book.
What are endpapers?
200
More of this genre has become available in pictures storybooks and in series. They are often based on actual people and recorded events.
What is historical fiction?
200
How the Turtle Got Its Shell, How the Bear Lost His Tail, and How the Chipmunk Got His Stripes are all examples of what kind of folktale?
What is a pourquoi tale?
200
This author loves cows and ducks and often works with Betsy Lewin.
Who is Doreen Cronin?
300
Books in which the author reports the comings and goings, the conversations, and the feelings of all the characters, villains as well as heroes is said to have this kind of point of view.
What is an omniscient, or all-knowing point of view?
300
Illustrators who constantly depict female characters cleaning and keeping house, males playing sports, and females playing with dolls are guilty of this.
What is stereotyping?
300
This genre can be authentic (carefully researched, or fictionalized (that make use of a story approach) about a primary character.
What is a biography?
300
Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan, and John Henry are all examples of this form of a folk tale.
What are tall tales?
300
This author focuses on math concepts and is the author of books such as Elevator Magic and Game Time.
Who is Stuart Murphy?
400
Books told from the point of view from one character are said to be this type of narrative.
What is first-person narrative?
400
These are becoming increasingly acceptable by educators and popular with adolescent readers as the pictures serve as a bridge for context for struggling readers or ELL students. They also expand vocabularies and introduce ideas of plot, pacing, and sequence.
What are graphic novels?
400
This genre satisfies the modern-day hunger for myth and raise questions about the struggles of good versus evil and the meaning of life.
What is modern fantasy?
400
This form of traditional literature is brief, didactic tales in which animals speak as human beings. The animals represent aspects of human nature. All contain an implicit or an explicit moral.
What is a fable?
400
This author/illustrator has been awarded the Caldecott Medal and lied about getting private art lessons in order to be admitted to the University of Michigan. Several of his books have been made into full-feature movies. He liked to play a recorder through his nose to amuse his children.
Who is Chris Van Allsburg?
500
Schools that do not use a basal reader program, but books that can be purchased in bookstores and on Amazon are said to use these kinds of books.
What are trade books?
500
Picture books are created for this age group.
What are all ages?
500
This genre portrays life as it is today, often in such realistic terms that it can create controversy.
What is contemporary realistic fiction?
500
These two went out into Western Europe to collect stories and later compiled them into an anthology.
Who are the Brothers Grimm?
500
This author uses different media for different books. One of his teachers was Maurice Sendak. This author/illustrator likes to illustrate folktales with oil painting. He has received the Caldecott medal once, and a Caldecott honor medal three times.