English Books for Children: A Graded Annotated Bibliography Prepared & Compiled for The Bombay Community Public Trust By Ms Hema Ranganathan Harsha Parekh Mumbai 2010 © The Bombay Community Public Trust Earnest House, Nariman Point, Mumbai 400021 2010 Telephone: 022-22845928; 022-22836672 Email:
[email protected] Website: http://bcpt.org.in In this Series: 1. Development of Reading: A Guidebook 2. Magazines for Children: An Annotated Bibliography 3. A Manual of Library Procedures and Routines 4. Children’s Books in English: An Annotated Bibliography Forthcoming: Children’s Books in Hindi: An Annotated Bibliography Children’s Books in Marathi: An Annotated Bibliography Directory of Publishers & Booksellers of Children’s Books in Mumbai Directory of developers/distributors of AV resources for children A Manual of Library Procedures and Routines (Hindi) Development of Reading: A Guidebook (Hindi) PREFAC E In the year 2005, the Bombay Community Public Trust (BCPT) started a few “Community Learning Centres” with the objective of providing opportunities to under-privileged children to read by accessing different types of books and other information sources. Comprising of a children’s library, support classes and recreation facilities, these centres attracted a large number of children. As the project was implemented, we began to recognise the role of language development as an important component in the child’s educational, social, emotional and intellectual growth. Listening, reading and writing are the three main pillars of language development. Listening which begins in the womb and continues through the early years of a child’s life enables a child to articulate – from incoherent to coherent words, from words, through phrases to sentences which get refined as the child grows.