Children's Literature: A Developmental Perspective

Those who work with children need a wide and deep knowledge of children's literature. This new text, through its developmental approach, examines children's abilities, needs, and interests. Children's Literature: A Developmental Perspective combines children's literature with developmental psychology, aiming to better prepare future teachers to meet the needs of individual children and to help develop their literary skills. By reading this text, students will learn what makes the most recently published books attractive to children, while still recognizing the value of books that have held children's interests in the past.

Barbara E. Travers has a master's degree from Boston College with a concentration in children's literature. She has been a teacher and librarian and has received a Horace Mann Award for her creativity in teaching children's literature.

John F. Travers is a published author of several child development and educational psychology textbooks. He has won numerous rewards at Boston College including Teacher of the Year, and he was recognized as one of eight (out of 1,000) outstanding teachers in the university.