All the fiction/nonfiction pairs in BookFlix are categorized according to nine themes: Animals and Nature; Earth and Sky; Family and Community; People and Places; Music and Rhyme; ABC's and 1, 2, 3's; Adventure; Imagination; and Celebrations. From the Home page, click on one of the nine themes to browse the pairs in each category. Pairs are listed in alphabetical order by story title.
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The reading aloud resource book : a practical guide for developing speech and language using picture books by 
Little Blue Truck by 
I Am Enough by 
Where the Wild Things Are by 
The Cool Bean by 
The Good Egg by 
¡Vamos! Let's Cross the Bridge by 
Red by 
Snail Crossing by 
Where Are You From? by 
I Promise by 
The Giving Tree by 
Pirate Stew by 
Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes by This library guide is a starting place for resources and information about children's literature genres. Use the tabs below to explore genres: biography, fantasy, folklore & folk tales, historical fiction, realistic fiction, and non-fiction. Find some of these titles in the Education Resource Area Collection, Berry Library, 2nd floor. How to find Children's books in the library video shows how to find books using the SSU library catalog. Check out for more Education Resource Area video tutorials here.
| Interdependence of art and text. Story or Concept presented through combination of text and illustration. Classification based on format, not genre. All genres appear in picture books. | ||
| Poetry & Verse | Condensed language, imagery. Distilled, rhythmic expression of imaginative thoughts and perceptions. | |
| Literary heritage of humankind. Traditional stories, myths, legends, nursery rhymes, and songs from the past. Oral tradition; no known author. | ||
| Imaginative worlds, make-believe. Stories set in places that do not exist, about people and creatures that could not exist, or events that could not happen. | ||
| Based on extending physical laws and scientific principles to their logical outcomes. Stories about what might occur in the future. | ||
| "What if" stories, illusion of reality. Events could happen in real world, characters seem real; contemporary setting. | ||
| Set in the past, could have happened. Story reconstructs events of past age, things that could have or did occur. | ||
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Biography |
Plot and theme based on person's life. An account of a person's life, or part of a life history; letters, memoirs, diaries, journals, autobiographies. | |
| Facts about the real world. Informational books that explain a subject or concept. | ||
Adapted from Ashland University Libary's LibGuide to children's literature..LibGuide links created by Rukmal Ryder
TeachingBooks.net is an easy-to-use website that adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children's and young adult books. This one stop database provides resources for books you are reading and teaching, including author and illustrator interviews, lesson plans, and other enrichment content.
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Social Justice Subject Heading Resources
Children's Literature and Social Justice Book Awards:
Jane Addams Children's Book Awards, 1953-2022