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CHILDREN'S LITERATUREChildren's literature is often defined in four different ways: books written by children, books written for children, books chosen by children, or books chosen for children. It is often illustrated.

Books specifically for children existed by the 17th century. Before this time period it is generally believed that books were written mainly for adults. Additionally, most printed works cost too much and were mostly available for purchase only by upper class society.

Types of children's literature

The major categories of children's literature are:

• Picture books and wordless books

• Traditional literature: there are some characteristics of traditional literature: conventional introductions and conclusions, vague settings, stereotyped characters, anthropomorphism, cause and effect, happy ending for the hero, magic accepted as normal, brief stories with simple and direct plots.

• Fiction, including the sub-genres of fantasy and realistic fiction (both contemporary and historical)

• Non-fiction• Biography, including autobiography • Poetry and verse.

Quotations about booksThe worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. James Bryce

A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. William Styron

A good book has no ending. R.D. Cumming

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. Charles W. Eliot

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. William Hazlitt

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. E.P. Whipple

A house without books is like a room without windows. Heinrich Mann

Books are a uniquely portable magic. Stephen King

Many important novels for children have become famous movies or cartoons.We are going to see some films drawn from some of the most famous English writers of the past and of our time.

Quotations about cinemaBecause there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves. Mohsen Makhmalbaf

I think it is the mirror of the world. Jeanne Moreau

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out. Martin Scorsese

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theatre. Roman Polanski

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness. Pedro Almodovar

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians. Francis Ford Coppola

My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. Roberto Benigni

Entertainment today constantly emphasises the message that things are wonderful the way they are. But there is another kind of cinema, which says that change is possible and necessary and it's up to you. Wim Wenders

MODERN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” by Roald

Dahl

Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British novelist, short story writer, poet and screenwriter.Born in Wales to Norwegian parents, he served in the British Royal Air Force during World War II, in which he became a flying ace and intelligence officer, rising to the rank of Wing Commander. Dahl rose to prominence in the 1940s, with works for both children and adults, and became one of the world's best-selling authors. He has been referred to as "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century".

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was written in 1964. The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka.The book was adapted into two major motion pictures: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory in 1971, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in 2005. The book's sequel, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, was written by Roald Dahl in 1972.

Main charactersThe story centers around an average and poor boy named Charlie Bucket, who lives in extreme poverty with his extended family; Grandpa Joe, his grandfather; the chocolatier Willy Wonka; the children who have to find one of the five golden tickets hidden inside the wrapping paper of random Wonka bars, Augustus Gloop (a boy who eats constantly), Veruca Salt (a girl who is spoiled), Violet Beauregarde (a girl who chews gum all day), Mike Teavee (a boy who is addicted to television).

The setThe Chocolate RoomThe Chocolate Room is the first room the group enters. It is said that everything in this room is edible: the pavements, the bushes, even the grass. There are trees made of taffy that grow jelly apples, bushes that sprout lollipops, mushrooms that spurt whipped cream, pumpkins filled with sugar cubes instead of seeds, jelly bean stalks, and spotty candy cubes. The main icon of the room is the Chocolate River, where the chocolate is mixed and churned by the waterfall, but must not be touched by human hands.

The Inventing RoomThe Inventing Room is the second room that the tour goes through. This room is home to Wonka's new—and still insufficiently tested—candies, such as Everlasting Gobstoppers, Hair Toffee, and Wonka's greatest idea so far, Three-Course Dinner Chewing Gum. This candy is a three course dinner all by itself, containing, "Tomato soup, roast beef, and blueberry pie." However, once the chewer gets to the dessert, the side effect is that they turn into a giant "blueberry."

The Nut RoomThis room is where Wonka uses trained squirrels to break open good walnuts for use in his sweets. All bad walnuts are thrown into a garbage chute which leads to an incinerator that is lit every other day.

The Television Room

The Television Room is home to Wonka's latest invention, Television Chocolate, where they take a giant bar of Wonka chocolate and shrink it, then send it through the air in a million pieces to appear in a television. The bar can be taken from the screen, and even consumed.

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