La literatura infantil y juvenil en la trayectoria lectora de futuros maestros: creencias, lecturas y necesidades formativas.

This paper examines the importance of children's books in the reading career of two promotions of future preschool and primary school teachers in order to identify their training needs and propose measures and strategies aimed at compensating them. To this end, is analyzed a corpus of 256 reading autobiographies -written by students enrolled in the teaching degrees of a Faculty of Education in central Spain- from which is extracted information regarding their knowledge of children's and young people's literature: the repertoire of works that they consider a success or a failure in their career, the changes experienced by their reading habits throughout their academic life and the people or circumstances that have influenced their reading. Apart from serving as a needs analysis and guiding their teaching-learning process, the data obtained are shared with the students to provoke their reflection and involve them in the selection of measures to be implemented in the classroom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]