Importance of children�s book

Children�s literature provides students with the opportunity to respond to literature and develop their own opinions about the topic

Giving children access to different varieties of literature is extremely important for their success.  Educators, parents, and community members should help students develop a love and passion for reading. Not only is reading literature important in developing cognitive skills to be able to succeed in a school or work setting, but it is valuable for other reasons as well.
Research suggests that imagination plays a great role in nourishing human nature, behaviour and character of children. With imagination a child develops a healthy mind during his growing years towards adulthood. To enrich a child with a sound psychological and emotional featured, the use of children’s book is essential. Since we are dealing with the fundamental growth of a child, children’s book is an important tool for that.
The ideal reading material dedicated for children should be chosen very carefully. As children at the very beginning of their life are usually very emotional, touchy and sensitive, the aim of educators and parents should be to give them a positive view of the world and at the same time make the child confident enough for the challenges of life. It is a kind of transforming a bud into a flower. By reading beautiful books a child learns to love his life, his surrounding world, his family etc. reading a good book make the child very happy. He steps out of his family and enters another bigger family, the world. While the child roams in fantasy, dream, he is also moving in the fantasy of the story. He identifies with a character of the book. With a fresh mind the child can adapt a lot. Again it is very sensitive task to mould a child. Here a good book will be a good guide.  
Values of life, ethics, morals all issues are combines and delivered to a child through beautiful stories, rhymes, poems,, songs in children’s books. It is obvious that we can grow a better nation if we can enrich our children with beautiful and colourful books. Reading a nice book  makes a child instantly happy. Moreover he starts to get nourishment from the book continuously.   With beautiful stores his faculty of imagination opens, his logical senses grows, he learns various norms. So high quality books written for children, can help a child become a good human being. The child can become a romantic poet, a scientist, that can be determined from exploring his early background  that include reading imaginative matters in childhood. Similarly, in case we see lack of affection, love, parental care, child care, and no reading of good books in childhood may relate to offensive activity of the person.
Fairy tales have great impact on child’s mind. It opens his or her imagination. Even when a child reads the story of a bird, sees colourful pictures of birds, the child reams of flying. The fantasy of flying remains in his subconscious mind. And in later years he may become a pilot. Reaching the moon is a simple desire of a child and those dreamers do become astronauts or moon walkers in later years.
The first value to note is that children’s literature provides students with the opportunity to respond to literature and develop their own opinions about the topic. This strengthens the cognitive developmental domain as it encourages deeper thought about literature. Quality literature does not tell the reader everything he/she needs to know; it allows for some difference in opinion. One reader may take something completely different away from the piece of literature than the next reader, based on the two personal viewpoints and experiences. Students can learn to evaluate and analyze literature, as well as summarize and hypothesize about the topic.. Students reading wordless books like A Ball for Daisy, The Yellow Umbrella  or The Red Book (Lehmann, 2004) will be able to analyze the illustrations and develop their own dialogue for the story. This strengthens students’ cognitive functions in being able to form opinions on their own and to express themselves through language in summarizing the plot of a wordless book.
Also, children’s literature provides an avenue for students to learn about their own cultural heritage and the cultures of other people. It is crucial for children to learn these values because, “developing positive attitudes toward our own culture and the cultures of others is necessary for both social and personal development”
Children are never too young to be read to. In fact, some mothers start reading to their children before they are born. What is remarkable is that research indicates unborn babies hear their mothers and react to their voices. In addition to building a bond between parent and child, daily reading to preschool children may be the single most important thing parents can do to improve their children's chances for success in school. Children's book editor Janet Schulman described the educational and emotional benefits of reading to children with her metaphor that "books help give children a leg up on the ladder of life". Of course, nurturing parents should continue to read to their children after they start school and for as long as they will listen—which, if all goes well, will be throughout the elementary school years. Children are never too old to be read to either. I remember working with a talented student teacher who was placed in a challenging classroom of sixth graders, all of whom had been identified as being at risk of failing or dropping out of school. The student teacher did an excellent job with them, though they were often rowdy. One day when the classroom teacher was out, I walked into the classroom, and the first thing I noticed was that I could hear only one voice, and the kids were all awake! In fact, they had their eyes glued on the student teacher, who was reading them Stone Soup a picture book fairy tale.
To make a beautiful world with beautiful children, who will be the thinkers of the next world, we must ensure well written children’s books. The concerned authorities must have in place effective plans to support the children of the country. As we must give our children good books, one day they will give us a good nation. Buy your child a good book.

The writer is a freelancer

Importance of children�s book

Children�s literature provides students with the opportunity to respond to literature and develop their own opinions about the topic

Giving children access to different varieties of literature is extremely important for their success. Educators, parents, and community members should help students develop a love and passion for reading. Not only is reading literature important in developing cognitive skills to be able to succeed in a school or work setting, but it is valuable for other reasons as well. Research suggests that imagination plays a great role in nourishing human nature, behaviour and character of children. With imagination a child develops a healthy mind during his growing years towards adulthood. To enrich a child with a sound psychological and emotional featured, the use of childrens book is essential. Since we are dealing with the fundamental growth of a child, childrens book is an important tool for that. The ideal reading material dedicated for children should be chosen very carefully. As children at the very beginning of their life are usually very emotional, touchy and sensitive, the aim of educators and parents should be to give them a positive view of the world and at the same time make the child confident enough for the challenges of life. It is a kind of transforming a bud into a flower. By reading beautiful books a child learns to love his life, his surrounding world, his family etc. reading a good book make the child very happy. He steps out of his family and enters another bigger family, the world. While the child roams in fantasy, dream, he is also moving in the fantasy of the story. He identifies with a character of the book. With a fresh mind the child can adapt a lot. Again it is very sensitive task to mould a child. Here a good book will be a good guide. Values of life, ethics, morals all issues are combines and delivered to a child through beautiful stories, rhymes, poems,, songs in childrens books. It is obvious that we can grow a better nation if we can enrich our children with beautiful and colourful books. Reading a nice book makes a child instantly happy. Moreover he starts to get nourishment from the book continuously. With beautiful stores his faculty of imagination opens, his logical senses grows, he learns various norms. So high quality books written for children, can help a child become a good human being. The child can become a romantic poet, a scientist, that can be determined from exploring his early background that include reading imaginative matters in childhood. Similarly, in case we see lack of affection, love, parental care, child care, and no reading of good books in childhood may relate to offensive activity of the person. Fairy tales have great impact on childs mind. It opens his or her imagination. Even when a child reads the story of a bird, sees colourful pictures of birds, the child reams of flying. The fantasy of flying remains in his subconscious mind. And in later years he may become a pilot. Reaching the moon is a simple desire of a child and those dreamers do become astronauts or moon walkers in later years. The first value to note is that childrens literature provides students with the opportunity to respond to literature and develop their own opinions about the topic. This strengthens the cognitive developmental domain as it encourages deeper thought about literature. Quality literature does not tell the reader everything he/she needs to know; it allows for some difference in opinion. One reader may take something completely different away from the piece of literature than the next reader, based on the two personal viewpoints and experiences. Students can learn to evaluate and analyze literature, as well as summarize and hypothesize about the topic.. Students reading wordless books like A Ball for Daisy, The Yellow Umbrella or The Red Book (Lehmann, 2004) will be able to analyze the illustrations and develop their own dialogue for the story. This strengthens students cognitive functions in being able to form opinions on their own and to express themselves through language in summarizing the plot of a wordless book. Also, childrens literature provides an avenue for students to learn about their own cultural heritage and the cultures of other people. It is crucial for children to learn these values because, developing positive attitudes toward our own culture and the cultures of others is necessary for both social and personal development Children are never too young to be read to. In fact, some mothers start reading to their children before they are born. What is remarkable is that research indicates unborn babies hear their mothers and react to their voices. In addition to building a bond between parent and child, daily reading to preschool children may be the single most important thing parents can do to improve their childrens chances for success in school. Childrens book editor Janet Schulman described the educational and emotional benefits of reading to children with her metaphor that books help give children a leg up on the ladder of life. Of course, nurturing parents should continue to read to their children after they start school and for as long as they will listenwhich, if all goes well, will be throughout the elementary school years. Children are never too old to be read to either. I remember working with a talented student teacher who was placed in a challenging classroom of sixth graders, all of whom had been identified as being at risk of failing or dropping out of school. The student teacher did an excellent job with them, though they were often rowdy. One day when the classroom teacher was out, I walked into the classroom, and the first thing I noticed was that I could hear only one voice, and the kids were all awake! In fact, they had their eyes glued on the student teacher, who was reading them Stone Soup a picture book fairy tale. To make a beautiful world with beautiful children, who will be the thinkers of the next world, we must ensure well written childrens books. The concerned authorities must have in place effective plans to support the children of the country. As we must give our children good books, one day they will give us a good nation. Buy your child a good book. The writer is a freelancer