Lee Galda Pellegrini, ’67
Literature and the Child, by Lee Galda Pellegrini, ’67, and Bernice
Cullinan. Hardcover, 532 pages, Wadsworth Thomson Learning, fifth edition,
July 2001.
Lee Galda is professor of children’s literature at the University of Minnesota-Twin
Cities and author of several academic works.
Literature and the Child is an introductory textbook with author profiles, teaching
ideas, and a sampling and explanation of many types and levels of books and illustration.
The sixth edition is scheduled for 2005.
A reviewer has described it as “a thought-provoking discussion on how children
can read to respond, read to learn, and read to enjoy…This is a book for
teachers, stressing the use of good books in a literature-based curriculum.” Included
are evaluation
criteria for selecting superior children’s books, extended examinations
of selected titles, a discussion of multicultural literature, and numerous teaching
ideas contributed by classroom teachers.
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