2010 IRC CONFERENCE QUITO

Mayra Carolina Rodriguez IRC Managua

Building a Children’s collection

@Your Library

Why Children’s Literature

• Invest in our children’s future• Make readers out of them• Pass on our culture – build tolerance• Moral values• Every college or university that

prepares teachers should have a children’s collection.

• Develops the imagination• Connect to the world!

Types of Children’s Books

• Easy or beginning reading for preschoolers (Dr. Seuss, Bernstein Bears)

• Picture books • Chapter books• Young adult literature

FolkloreHistory

Fantasy Fairy Tales

Horror

Black HistoryCrime FictionEnvironment

Historical FictionSF/Fantasy

Award Winning Books

• Newberry• Caldecott• Coretta Scott King