This is generally a very short tale using animals to teach a lesson.
What is a fable?
100
Nodelman suggests that children's literature uses a _____________ tone to describe fantastic experiences.
What is matter-of-fact?
100
This is considered the "Golden Age" of children's literature.
What is the 1800's?
100
He is the most famous author of fables.
Who is Aesop?
100
This model of childhood sees children's daily existence as not substantively different from those of the adults around them.
What is children as miniature adults?
200
This is a story based on a historically true event, but greatly exaggerated.
What is a legend?
200
Nodelman states that children's literature often uses a ______________ of the adult narrator and the child's voice.
What is doubleness?
200
During this time period, the rise of Puritanism lead to heavily didactic and moralizing literature for children.
What is the 1600's?
200
He published the first translated collection of Aesop's Fables in 1484.
Who is William Caxton?
200
This model of childhood is heavily influenced by the recent interest in child psychology.
What is the developing child?
300
This is a story told as if it were true, usually describing the origin of the world.
What is a myth?
300
Nodelman suggests that children's literature often uses apparent __________ to mask hidden _________.
What are simplicity and complexity?
300
Because of the invention of the printing press, this time period was able to increase the production of all literature, including children's literature.
What is the Renaissance? (1500's)
300
Every fable ends with this.
What is a lesson or a moral?
300
This model of childhood focuses on the need to save, discipline and morally educate children.
What is the sinful child?
400
This is a story featuring humans and animals (which sometimes talk), passed down from generation to generation to impart a particular culture's values.
What is a folk tale?
400
Nodelman suggests that these two subjects are often central in children's literature.
What are innocence and knowledge acquisition?
400
The two characteristics of children's literature prior to the 1700's are...
What are general audience/crossover texts and instructional material?
400
These are the types of characters and locations usually found in fables.
What are stock characters and locations?
400
This model of childhood sees children as precious objects to admire rather than as practical tools.
What is the sacred child?
500
This is a story featuring magical elements told for entertainment or instruction.
What is a fairy tale?
500
Nodelman asks us to consider children's literature as belonging to its own _____________.
What is genre?
500
This is considered the "birth" of children's literature, the publication of John Newberry's A Little Pretty Pocket Book.
What is 1744?
500
This is a summary of well-known fable.
What is The Ant and the Grasshopper, or other fables?
500
This model of childhood sees children as tabula rosas, or blank slates.