EXPLORATION OF TYPES OF STORIES

MODERN FANTASY, REALISTIC

FICTION, NON-FICTION
LGA 3103
Prepared by:
Che Mohd Nizwan bin Che Ghani
Norshazila binti Roslee
Nursha-Irma binti Zainal
MODERN FANTASY
Modern fantasy is literature written by a
known author that is set either in a make-
believe or imaginary world in which places,
people and creatures could not exist,and/or
have events that could not possibly happen
such as tiny people, talking animals, or
traveling through time.
They have a known author
They were written since 1800
They were created mainly for entertainment
purposes, though they might have a lesson
They are usually longer than traditional
folktales, often a full length novel
Involve magic, the "quest," and/or "good
versus evil."
CATEGORIES OF MODERN FANTASY
Category Example
Animal Fantasy Wilbur in Charlotte's Web, by E.B. White, who
lives in a barn and eats slop, but also displays
human characteristics such as being able to
talk with other animals.
Toys and Objects The Velveteen Rabbit who wants to become
real and of course the well known and loved
Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne.
Tiny Humans The Borrowers by Mary Norton and
Thumbelina by Hans Christian Andersen.


Unusual Characters
and Preposterous
Situations
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis
Carroll and Mr. Popper's Penguins
by Richard and Florence Atwater.

Imaginary Worlds Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl.
Supernatural Harry Potter series by J.K.Rowling
Time-warp Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie
Babbitt, Winnie falls in love with
Tuck who is a character that has
the gift of everlasting life, a person
from the past must now help a
friend in need.
High Fantasy The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by
J.R.R Tolkien and The Lion, the Witch and
the Wardrobe by C.S.Lewis
Science Fiction A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle or
The Giver by Lois Lowery
Examples of modern fantasy
Titles to explore:
"Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbitt,
"Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White, "The
Velveteen Rabbit" by Margery Williams,
"Winnie the Pooh" by A.A. Milne, "Ella
Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine, Harry
Potter and The Series

J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series - set in the
United Kingdom in the late 1980s and 1990s.
Stephenie Meyer's Twilight (series)
Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita
Edith Nesbit: The Magic City, Psammead
series, House of Arden series, The Enchanted
Castle, The Magic World and other works

POPULAR MODERN FANTASY
THE WONDERFUL VISIT
The Wonderful Visit tells the story of
a fallen angel who one night arrives
in a small English village called
Sidderton, where he faces the
struggles of adapting to everyday
life, and has to deal with the
problem that his pureness and
wholesomeness makes him disliked
by the other villagers, but the longer
he stays on earth, the more human
he becomes.
THE ENCHANTED CASTLE by E.Nesbit
The enchanted castle is a
country estate in the West
Country seen through the
eyes of three children,
Gerald, James and
Kathleen, who discover it
while exploring during the
school holidays. The lake,
groves and marble statues,
with white towers make a
fairy-tale setting, and then
in the middle of the maze
in the rose garden they find
a sleeping fairy-tale
princess.

The "princess" tells them
that the castle is full of
magic, and they almost
believe her. She shows
them the treasures of the
castle, including a ring she
says is a ring of invisibility,
but when it actually turns
her invisible she panics and
admits that she is the
housekeeper's niece,
Mabel, and was just play-
acting.

The children soon discover
that the ring has other
magical powers
REALISTIC FICTION
Titles dealing with the problems and joys of living
today. There is often an element of character
growth or self-realization in the book. Titles can
promote tolerance and understanding of others
and their experiences.
characters are involved in events that could
happen.
It "extends children's horizons by broadening
their interests, allowing them to experience new
adventures and showing them different ways to
view and deal with conflicts in their own lives"
(Through the eyes of a child (2003), p. 363)

Authors to explore: William Bell, Martha
Brooks, Sigmund Brouwer, Betsy Byars, Matt
Christopher, Beverly Cleary, Caroline B.
Cooney, Christopher Paul Curtis, Lois Duncan,
Sarah Ellis, Jack Gantos
Titles to explore:
"Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, "Bridge to
Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson, "Holes" by
Louis Sachar

SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson
Speak, published in
1999, tells the story
of Melinda Sordino's
rape, recovery, and
confession.
[
After
being raped at a
party, Melinda is
ostracized by her
peers because she
will not say why she
called the police.

Unable to verbalize
what happened,
Melinda nearly stops
speaking altogether,
expressing her voice
through the art she
produces for
Mr.Freeman's class.
This expression
slowly helps Melinda
acknowledge that
she was raped, face
her attacker, and
recreate her identity.

BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA
Bridge to
Terabithia is the
story of fifth grader
Jess Aarons, who
becomes friends
with his new
neighbor Leslie
Burke after he loses
a footrace to her at
school. Leslie is a
smart, talented,
outgoing tomboy,
and Jess thinks
highly of her. He
himself is an
artistic boy who, in
the beginning of
the novel, is
fearful, angry, and
depressed. After
meeting Leslie, Jess
is transformed. He
becomes
courageous and
learns to let go of
his frustration.
NON-FICTION
Non-fiction is the form of any narrative,
account, or other communicative work whose
assertions and descriptions are understood to
be factual.
Books that are nonfiction, or true, are about
real things, people, events, and places.


TYPES OF NON-FICTION
Essays
Journals
Diaries
Documentaries
Histories
Scientific papers
Photographs
Biographies
Textbooks
Travel books
Blueprints
Technical documentation
User manuals
Some fiction may include non-fictional
elements. Some non-fiction may include
elements of unverified supposition,
deduction, or imagination for the purpose of
smoothing out a narrative, but the inclusion of
open falsehoods would discredit it as a work
of non-fiction.

REFERENCES
http://www.uleth.ca/edu/currlab/handouts/g
enres.html
http://pwhlibrary.weebly.com/uploads/9/5/0/
9/9509768/tradmodlitsheet.pdf
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Choosing_High_
Quality_Children%27s_Literature/Modern_Fa
ntasy