Preview Perspectives: Children React to Film/Literature Presentations

Abstract

Although educators have written at length about children's attitudes and the implications these have upon their book preferences (e.g., Rue and Evard, 1963, “Student Evaluations of Newberry Award Books”; Smith, 1972, “The Popularity of Children's Fiction as a Function of Reading Ease and Related Factors”; Groves, 1949, “Concern with the Present: Are Books Meeting this Need?”), there seems to be little attempt to ascertain how much popular media affects children's reading and/or viewing patterns. National magazines such as Time and Newsweek have periodically reported on television's stronghold on today's youth. But their reports largely have not been based on any systematic gathering of data.

Citation

May, J.P. (1980), "Preview Perspectives: Children React to Film/Literature Presentations", Collection Building, Vol. 2 No. 3, pp. 34-51. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb023045