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Children's Literature
This semester, we will take an historical approach
to our study of children’s literature as we consider literary content,
illustration, social values, cultural contexts, staging, and publishing.
We will read fairy tales (and a few modern
appropriations), instructional and moral texts from the eighteenth
century, fanciful novels from the nineteenth century, realistic novels
that emerged in the mid-twentieth century, and the 2008 winner of the
Newberry Medal.
We will also travel together to see The
Barter Players perform Catherine Bush's adaptation of the much loved
children’s classic Rapunzel.
Our discussions will also include poems for
children as well as traditional and post-modern picture books.
Lewis Carroll’s
Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland (1865). Penguin, 2003. 0141439769
J.M. Barrie’s
Peter Pan and Wendy
(1911). Penguin, 2004. 014243793X
E.B. White’s
Charlotte’s Web (1952).
Harper Collins, 2001.
0064410935
Robert Cormier’s
The Chocolate War
(1974). Knopf, 2004.
0375829873
Christopher Paul Curtis’,
The
Watson’s Go to
Maria Tatar’s
The Classic Fairy Tales.
Norton, 1999.
0393972771
Shannon Hale’s Rapunzel’s Revenge, Bloomsbury,
2008.
ISBN: 1599902885
Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book, HarperCollins,
2008.
ISBN: 0061712825 Nodelman & Reimer’s The Pleasures of Children’s Literature, 3rd. Allyn & Bacon, 2002. 0801332486
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Phyllis Thompson Department of English 213 Burleson East Tennessee State University thompsop@etsu.edu 423.439.5997 |