Quality child literature : Indian situation

The Value of Children’s Literature Giving children access to all 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. Although there are countless values in exposing children to literature, Donna Norton (2010) identifies the value of literature for young people in her book Through the Eyes of a Child. Children’s literature is important because it provides students with opportunities to respond to literature; it gives students appreciation about their own cultural heritage as well as those of others; it helps students develop emotional intelligence and creativity; it nurtures growth and development of the student’s personality and social skills; and it transmits important literature and themes

Child Literature in India : Problem of Awareness and Access Education system of India is quite complex. There are so many parallel systems going on in the country it is hard to understand which represents the true Indian education system.On one hand there are International Schools in big cities and metros with luxuries infrastructure and international curriculum and on the other hand there are remote government schools where one teacher is handling 5 classes alone in a poor infrastructure conditions. Moving ahead in this article it is important to understand that around 65% of students in India are studying in government schools. Quality of our education system is questionable since independence. Mere focus on rote learning and job oriented study are the biggest challenges we are facing in our schools. After the introduction of universalization in education in 90s our governments and NGOs started taking this issue seriously. Different programs were executed to improve t