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Children's Literature Posters
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educational posters > literature posters > Children's Literature < children < social studies
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Children's Literature education posters illustrate fables, fairy tales,and nursery rhymes. Folklore is the oral and narrative tradiitons of a culture and includes proverbs, jokes, and tales. The study of folklore can identify religious and mythic elements that help recognize the interconnectedness between what otherwise appear to be total separate societies.
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Aesop's Fables-
(ca. 620 - 560 BC)
Aesop's Fables are short stories using personified animals to tell a cautionary tale, a moral lesson, a rule of behavior. Over 200 fables have been attributed to Aesop, who was possibly a Greek slave of African descent c. 600 BC. The word Aesop means Ethiop in Ancient Greek.
• Aesop quote poster
• famous teachers posters
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“Mother Goose” is an archetypal country woman who fusses over her charges and instructs them with fantastic tales. Mother Goose is first mentioned in 1660 by Charles Perrault.
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Charles Perrault, in adapting early folk tales, laid the foundations for the fairy tale genre in a book subtitled "Tales of Mother Goose". His works include Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Puss in Boots, Cinderella, and Bluebeard.
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Nursery rhymes are traditional songs or poems taught to young children to instill skills such as counting or associating a sound with an animal.
• more nursery rhymes posters
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Strewwelpeter, or Slovenly Peter, was a popular children's book written by Heinrich Hoffmann, a father wanting a picture book for his son. The "junk opera", Shockheaded Peter, is based on Struwwelpeter.
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Hans Christian Andersen
b. 4-2-1805; Odense, Denmark
d. 8-4-1875
The Emperor's New Suit - “Why, but he hasn't got anything on!” they all shouted at last. And the emperor winced, for he felt they were right. But he thought to himself: “I must go through with the procession now.” And he drew himself up more proudly than ever, while the chamberlains walked behind him, bearing the train that wasn't there.
• more Hans Christian Andersen posters
• more Classic Children's Authors posters
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Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm,
b. 1785 & 1786; Germany
The Brothers Grimm were German professors best known for their publication of fairy and folk tales collected as they did their linguistic research on how sounds in words shift over time.
• Grimms' Tales for Young and Old: The Complete Stories
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The Witch Baba Yaga, Illustration from the Story of 'Vassilissa the Beautiful', Russian Folk Tale, 1902
• Russia posters
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Zora Neale Hurston
b. 1-7-1891; AL (raised in FL)
d. 1-28-1960
Zora Neale Hurston studied anthropology with Franz Boaz and collected materials related to the customs, traditional beliefs, legends, and sayings of the African American culture. She evolved those studies into two collections of folktales, four novels, an autobiography, a stage play and a number of essays.
• more Zora Neale Hurston posters
• more Voices of Diversity Posters
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