Narrative Techniques for Children’s Books
What are literary genres and why are they used to tell stories
A course by Natalia Méndez , Editor and teacher
About the video: What are literary genres and why are they used to tell stories
Overview
“Books are often classified from their content, and that helps readers to have an idea of what we are going to find.”
In this video lesson Natalia Méndez addresses the topic: What are literary genres and why are they used to tell stories, which is part of the Domestika online course: Narrative Techniques for Children’s Books. Learn the basic components of a story to create tales for children.
Partial transcription of the video
“Now let's stop a bit more about what the literary genres. It is a form, a structure, that we classify in some way the content of the stories. This, we also understand it through the movies or through the comics, through the series, anything else that we know, let's say. Any narrative story going to have or can be classified in a genre. Come on, then, to know a little more what are those genres that are used in children's books. We talked a little about the history of children's books and, as I said, this idea of childhood, that is also historical and that changes to through the ages. In thi...”
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Course summary for: Narrative Techniques for Children’s Books
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Category
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Children's Literature, Creative Writing, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing
Natalia Méndez
A course by Natalia Méndez
Natalia Méndez has been working as a publisher of books for children and young people since 2002.
It has its own artisan publishing label, called "Dábale arroz", together with Eduardo Abel Giménez and a very small ceramic and mini-book business "A la zorra".
She obtained a scholarship as a researcher from the Internationale Jugendbibliothek in Munich and, in 2012, participated in the Frankfurt Fellowship program at the Frankfurt Book Fair. And in addition, he gives classes in the Publishing and Literature career (UBA), training for writers (Casa de Letras) and training for children's book publishers.
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