Written in a personable tone, this literature methods text is filled with teaching strategies, technology applications, and discussion topics for teachers and parents of children from infancy to age 13.

Organized around genres, this student-friendly text presents the basic children's literature content as well as numerous book annotations. This exceptional textbook not only includes books about minorities in each chapter, but it also features a chapter written by minority literature specialists who provide annotations of quality works by minority authors and illustrators. Uniquely, Elementary Children's Literature offers curriculum tie-ins, discussion topics (current issues), and technology applications, woven throughout the text and featured in literature response boxes within each chapter. Chapters open with attractive book illustrations that are discussed within a chapter devoted to the art in children’s books.