The document discusses the importance of literature for children's development and education. It notes that literature helps build vocabulary, expression skills, and sensitivity. The document also provides a brief history of children's literature, including early books from Anglo-Saxon and medieval periods, as well as chapbooks and the influence of the Puritans. Finally, it discusses the development of poetry for children and different poets who wrote verses for children.

1. KRISTINE YLLENE PURINO
Narrative Reflection
The Place of Literature in Child’s life is emphasize the literary of all young people at school
from time to time. They have to realize that education is a valuable ingredient and that remained.
Reading books is important to all children that’s why we need to show them and believe that they
need to place a literature in their life. Even the culture has changed also their wants and needs.
Teacher, Parents and Librarian can help the children. They can work effectively to developed the
child for reading books. Also to motivate them and we contribute for their country’s. The children
must be receive and love books. They need to appreciate reading books to know them the important
thing in reading the books. Literature release a stress. The children must accompany their parents
in the library or something that has a reading room.
The development of children’s literature reflect the spirit and interests of the period. The literature
must we experience and put to our life especially to all children. The stories were about the
adventures of the older people, about animals and imaginary characters.
Lesson 1 Place of Literature in Child’s Life
From the beginnings of education in our country, children’s literature has always had a place in
school curriculum. Although the emphases in the literary experiences of young people at school
have changed from time to time, the basic commitment to literature as a valuable ingredient to
their education.
This kind of environment produces a depraved child with questionable values in life. Those
existing conditions are not impossible to change as long as there are people who are aware of the
needs of the child and more willing to do something to counteract what bought such conditions.
A child appreciation of good literature comes partly from exposure to stimulating stories and
which starts at home.
Children’s literature contribute toward creative development in boys and girls and offers many
opportunities for creative teaching. The creative teaching of literature can contribute to creative
development in many ways:
1. It can stimulate children to write for themselves. Children who write their own
literature are always eager to see what others write.
2. It can help build a vocabulary that will help the child to express himself better.
3. It can help children build skills in expression.
4. It can develop a sensitivity to sights, sounds, words, life’s problems and people.
Literature provides various experiences which enhances the development of children. They can
increase their knowledge, change their outlook, broaden their interests, develop their desirable
attitudes.

2. Lesson 4 History Children’s Literature
A knowledge of the historical background of the children’s literature through the ages
help us understand the forces affecting the development of children literature and their
characteristics at different periods. The development of children literature reflect the spirit and
interests of the period.
These stories were passed on by word of mouth from generation to generation before they
were collected to printing.
Early Beginings: Anglo Saxon Period.
As far back as the Anglo Saxon Period, monks and other learned men wrote” lesson
books” for children These lesson book were designed for teaching.
The Medieval Period
By the fifteen century books on manners and morals began to appear in England by
1430.One of this was Willian Caxton’s Boke of Curtayse published about 1477.
ABC Books
In the sixteen century .ABC books or primers appeared. They were so called because
they were used at the hour of prime as books of private devotions in the Angelican church. Thus
the term primer came to be applied to all the first books for children in school.
Hornbook
The hornbook which were not really books appeared toward the end of the sixteenth
century. These were the first books designed for children to handle. They were about 3 by 4 ½
inches long and 2 inches wide. These books could be hung around the necks of children.
Chapbooks
In the sixteenth century, printing became cheaper. Single sheets of paper printed on one
side only called broadsides were issued. These broadsides contained ballads of Robin Hood.
Puritan Period
In England and America,books for children were influenced by puritan ideas. The
books stressed fear of God,religious instruction and preparation for death, which the children did
not enjoy. It was a small book, about 3 by 4 ½ inches and had about 100 pages. It contain the
alphabet, words and syllables for spelling lessons the Lord’s Prayer, catechism, hymns and
verses. rhymes for each letter of the alphabets.

3. First Picture Book
In 1658 the first illustrated school book appeared. It was known as Orbis Sensualum
or Orbis Pictrus (The world in picture).It was invented by Johann Amos Comenius. Bishop of
Moravia and an educator who believed in teaching children by letting them see things with their
own eyes.
John Newberry Era
Was a writer and publisher who first thought of publishing books solely for children. He was
called “the father of children literature” for he conceive the idea of publishing of books for the
enjoyment and entertainment of children.
The deductive period
Jean Jacques rousseau was a French philosopher who started a new philosophy in the education
of children his book Emily embodied the philosophy the children be given freedom to develop
the natural interests and learned from actual
The return of fairy Tales Old and New
The influence of didacticism was unable to control permanently children’s love for fairy tales.
The publication of Grimm’s Fairy tales revived the interest for imaginative stories, Jacob and
Welhelm Grimm collected the old German stories not for the entertainment of tifically for
posterity.
Realistic Literature
This period was marked with the appearance of stories of boys and girls in simple home
situations.
Lesson 5 Development of children’s literature in the Philippines
Children’s literature in the Philippines had been in existence as far back as the primitive
era Even before colonizers came to the Philippines, the Filipinos already had their own language,
their own alphabet, knew how to read and write and had a system of communication.
When the Spanish colonizers came to the Iceland, they not only brought Christianity and
their culture.but also religious literature and instruction for children.
In 1593, the first book for children in the Philippines, Doctrina Christiana En lengua
Tagala y Espanola by Father Domingo Nieva was published.

4. In 1606, Memorias De La Vida en Lengua China was published. Pamphlets containing
the lives of saints, novenarios, prayers and sermons of the missionaries and parish priest were
circulated among the converts.
Jose Rizal wrote some children stories like” the Monkey and the Turtles” and translate
some fairytales of Hans Christian Andersen from Danish to Tagalog.
UNIT II
Lesson I Development of Poetry for Children and their Poem- Makers
A study of a development of poetry for children shows that with each successive period
in its history, gifted makers of verse shows in their work more of the veritable substance and
essence of true poetry. The development has been irregular but in the order of appearance most
of the writer of the present inherited from the past and each in his own way tried to sing the song
of childhood in key with the spirit of the child and the spirit of the time.
A great many of the subject of Devine and Moral and Songs of Children were copied by
imitators.
William Blake (1767-1827) was the first of the important English poets to write poetry
for children.
Ann and Jane Taylor (1782-1866) (1783-1824) began to write for little children when
they were scarcely more than children themselves.
Edward Lear (18121-1888) had no literary forerunner, he was simply himself. He was a
gifted young English artists who at the age of nineteen years made colored drawings of birds for
the London Zoo-Logical society and later he was employed by the Earl of Darby to draw picture
of his family.
Cristina Rossetti (1839-1894) wrote very simple little poems for children she possessed
matched of the spiritual quality found in William Blake.
Miss Rossetti was a great master of musical language and metrical arts.
Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835-1894) was one of the earliest American writers of verse
for children.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) occupied a unique place as a writer for children.
Laura Elizabeth Richards (1850-1853) who was the daughter of Julia Ward Howe,
author of The Battle Hymn of the republic, was not only a poet but also musician.

5. Allan Alexander Milne (1882-1956) as known more as familiarly A A. Milne he started
literary work by giving his full attention to the writing of plays.
Rachel Field (1884-1942) has been most successful in this genre and her collection
contain numerens poems about people and objects.
Lesson 2 Mother Goose Rhymes or Nursery Rhymes
Children all over the world have recited, sang, and repeated mother goose rhymes, but
they have never bothered to their origin and their meaning most of the rhymes had been handed a
down from generation to generation.
A Mother Goose Rhymes were handed down orally, They undergone many changes. The
verses reveal interesting of history, old customs, manners and beliefs.
Qualities of Mother Goose Rhymes
1. Musical Quality
2. Action
3. Humor
4. Story Interest
5. Variety of Subject Matter
A. animals
B. alphabets
C. dialogue
D. counting rhymes
E. Games
F. people
G. time verses
I. tongue twister

6. J. weather
K. Accumulative story
L. Singing Rhymes
Lesson 3 Verses for Children
A verses is a line for poetry having, usually, a determine metrical or rhythmical pattern.
A humor verse deals with the amusing themes that befall by real people, might conceivably
befall them. A nonsense verse deals with absurd or meaningless words as pabbles, jumbles,
potatoes that dance, chickens that go out to tea.