1. Riga Secondary School No 6
Scientific Research work in English
Children’s literature
Author: 11. b class student Asne Tirzīte
Adviser: Aļina Terentjeva
Riga, 2010
2. Presentation content
• Aims and objectives of the work
• Methods of the research
• Results of the survey
• Analyzed books
• Conclusions
3. Aims and objectives
• To find out what deeper thoughts children’s
literature contain
• To find out what defines children’s literature
• To find out which authors and their works make
English children’s literature so famous
• To analyze two of the most popular books in
Britain
• To conduct a survey
5. Question of the survey
“Do you think that children’s literature is
meant only for children audience?”
7%
Yes
No
93%
6. Question of the survey
“Do you still read children’s literature?”
26%
Yes
74% No
7. Question of the survey
“Which of these books have you read?”
35
30
“Wind in the Willows”
25 Winnie the Pooh
20 “Peter and Wendy”
“Alice’s Adventures in
15 Wonderland”
Harry Potter series
10
5
0
10. Conclusions
1. The hypothesis has been proven to
be right. Children’s literature is very
complex and it includes adult
themes. It contains:
• author’s political views
• philosophical ideas and theories
• morals
11. 2. Children’s literature contains stories,
rhymes, and drama
• family stories
• fairy tales
• folk tales
• illustrated texts and picture books
• science and historical fiction
• poetry
• playground rhymes
• comics
12. 3. Children’s literature constitutes to be:
• books chosen for children
• books chosen by children
• books written for children
• books written by children
13. 4. Most renowned and notable writers
and their works:
• Thomas Malory's tales of Robin Hood
• John Bunyan’s “The Pilgrim's Progress”
• Lewis Carroll’s “Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland”
• Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book”
• Kenneth Graham’s “The Wind in the
Willows”
• A.A. Milne’s stories about Winnie the Pooh
