Genre Chart Genre Chart Team C UOP RDG 350 Genre Major Characteristics Notable Authors Genre Chart Genre Chart Picture Books Poetry Traditional Literature Rich pictures with lots of details Characters are developed through actions Story plots shown through pictures The story s setting is a big part of the story Bill Martin Jr Don Freeman Eric Carle Raymond Briggs 1 A poem takes a certain form as in stanzas or group of lines 2 A poem has a rhythm a more or less regularly patterned 3 A poem rhymes 4 Some poems have language that is figurative 5 Some poems do not tell outright the poet s emotion Traditional literatures are a variety of stories passed down through generations that were written down to form books These types consist of folk tales legends fairy tales tall tales fables myths trickster tales creation stories and pourquoi stories DrSuess Robert Frost Shel Silverstein Mother Goose Mahlon F Craft Ruth Sanderson Brothers Grimm Barry Moser Jan Brett Outstanding Examples in Children s Literature ChickaChicka Boom by Bill Martin Jr Corduroy by Don Freeman The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle The Snowman By Raymond Briggs Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost Green Eggs and Ham by DrSuess Nursery Rhymes by Mother Goose Sleeping Beauty by Mahlon F Craft Cinderella by Ruth Sanderson Hansel and Gretel by Brothers Grimm The Three Little Pigs by Barry Moser Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Jan Brett Are you there God It s me Margaret by Realistic Fiction Events could happen in the world as we know it Judy Blume Genre Chart Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction Louise Sachar Judy Blume today Characters are based on believable and relatable people who could exist Beverly Cleary Jeff Kinney Stories include high fantasy time travel magic in everyday life fantastical worlds and animals that talk and think The reader wonders if the story could possibly be true and could the events in the story every really happen These stories also peak curiosity about the future Madeleine L Engle Robert C O Brien Loyd Alexander David Almont T A Barron John Bellars Non Fiction and Informational Biography The purpose of non fiction literature is to inform the reader These books are based on factual information and come in the form of picture books chapter books cartoon format interviews and first person narratives Based on factual knowledge about a person s life Presents information in a chronological order Aliki George Ancona Carolyn Arnold Janet Bode Joanna Cole StehpanieSammartin o McPherson Sandra McLeod Humphrey Barry Denenberg Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney Holes Holes by Louise Sachar Ramona Quimby Age 8 by Beverly Cleary The Harry Potter series by J K Rowling Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Charlotte s Web by E B White The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L Engle Mrs Forsyth and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C O Brien Dinosaur Bones by Aliki Rosie the Riveter by Penny Colman I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King Jr and Coretta Scott King Ordinary Genius The Story of Albert Einstein by StehpanieSammartin o McPherson Dare To Dream 25 Extraordinary Lives by Genre Chart Catherine Thimmesh Melissa Sweet Sandra McLeod Humphrey Stealing Home The Story Of Jackie Robinson by Barry Denenberg Girls Think of Everything Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women by Catherine Thimmesh and Melissa Sweet