School Librarians of the 21st Century
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Literature:
appreciation and meaning
Dr. Kay Vandergrift, Rutgers Professor and authority
on literature for children and young adults states:

Literature

is written to be
experienced, enjoyed,
appreciated,
and loved.


Engagement
is necessary
to the
creation
of meaning.
 
Each reader,
in the process of experiencing a literary work, both brings meaning to and takes meaning from that work.
  Meaning
made from having experienced
a work is personal and idiosyncratic and is based on all that the reader has known and experienced outside that work
 

Learn about Professor Vandergrift, two of the courses she created,
Materials for Children and Materials for Young Adults, and her winning website.