Children's Literature: A Vital Resources for Language Literacy Development:- Igbozurike, Ijeoma

ABSTRACT

Introduction 1 iteratnre was derived from the latin word “litteratura” meaning “writing f letters” Literature is a term used to describe written and torm with letter • ls Lombardi (2005) sees literature as works of ZTmXeP?mauination, including poetry, drama, fiction, non-fiction, creative g instances, song. Literatures are written or oral journalism an and novels that are consjdered t0 be good and works such as po ’ pjowever5 the curiosity to discover a definition for have lasting importa • of literature can ea tbe point of view of Krystal (2014),literature is not literature is vas. ^bat voiced, what is expressed, what is invented, only what is written case maps, sermons, comic strips, cartoons, in whatever form in . war memOrials, and music are all huddled speeches, photographs mo , beneath the literacy um •