Week1

• What is Children's Literature?
  什麼是兒童文學?幹什麼用的?What should we care?
• Picture Book
  A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children.  Some picture books have basic language especially designed to help children develop their reading skills, most are written with vocabulary a child can understand but not necessarily read. 

Peter Rabbit picture book

• Aesop's Fables
  Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE. It's a collection of short stories about animals which behave in a human way. Each story teaches a moral lesson. They are said to be by a Greek called Aesop who lived in the 6th century BC, but many of them are much older than this.

• Parable
  A parable is a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles. It differs from afable in that fables employ animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature as characters, whereas parables have human characters.

• Allegory
  An allegory in its most general sense is an extended metaphor. It has been used widely throughout history in all forms of art, largely because it can readily illustrate complex ideas and concepts in ways that are comprehensible or striking to its viewers, readers, or listeners.One of the best-known examples of allegory, Plato's Allegory of the Cave.

• Divergent

• Video - What's Is Literature for?

• Video - How to Take Great Notes?

• The Princess and the Pea by Hans Christian Anderson