Fantasy In Literature

and she is very much right, selecting a book that students would enjoy. As mentioned above, dusty, old and not so interesting moralizing stories may not be the best choice for the technologized student of today. The teacher should rather go instead for the new, acclaimed, very popular books that even children who do not read on a regular basis have already heard of. Many of these successful books have been turned into nice movies and students may recognize a character or a plot only after seeing the film. Also, hugely popular characters like Harry Potter or Bilbo Baggins the Hobbit will certainly raise the attention of young students.

After selecting the suitable children literature to bring to the EFL class, teachers should also pay attention

Fantasy is one of the keys of the treasure of originality and all great children books have been most original. The revelation of life is a third sign of literature, meaning the relation and mirroring of the universal experience of the human being into the specific incident or observation: ''literature records the testaments to the human spirit... endlessly fascinating... slight, delicate, tender, or on a large and heroic scale''. The fourth sign of literature is the mastery of style and the suitability of style to concept, meaning that the writer's skill and talent feed the children's own abilities, helping them to develop their comprehension of literature and own expression. It is well-known that great writers have always been great readers themselves and the food for a writer is always the work of his great predecessors and contemporaries. And last but not least,

Each and every child has his or her own view of a given book and using that book in the EFL classroom may bring about as many representations and ways of understanding the story and its characters. Reading aloud to young students the story of Charlotte, the smart spider which saves the life of her friend the pig in E.B.White's classical book 'Charlotte's Web' will create as many different mental images as there are students in the book; asked to draw what they have imagined from the book, they will produce as many different pictures or drawings as they are; it is in fact all the images of all the children in the world upon a certain character that gives it life and force. Charlotte the spider is the sum of all these images that have emerged throughout years and years in the minds of generations of children. There lies the beauty and richness of literature. The visual representations of children books, such as images, pictures, cartoons, movies for television or the big screen, animated cartoons and anything else there might be out there are but a single representation of the story and its characters. Obviously, these visual representations may be brilliant and they are very helpful, as what would a children's book be without its pictures,