Written in a personable tone, this literature methods text is filled with teaching strategies, technology applications, and discussion topics for future teachers and parents of preschool and elementary children.

Organized around genres, this student-friendly text presents the basic children's literature course content. Each genre chapter contains extensive up-to-date bibliographies of books in print, including many of the new bestsellers. Each genre has a list of evaluation criteria, ideas for integrating technology with literature, and current issues to discuss. 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 many annotations of works by minority authors and illustrators. Uniquely, Elementary Children's Literature offers curriculum tie-ins, discussion topics, and technology applications, which are woven throughout the text and are also 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.