EA300 - CHILDREN'S LITERATURE LINKS



Course description




ROUTES LINKS


A Little Pretty Pocket Book - Generally considered the first children's book, and consists of simple rhymes for each of the letters of the alphabet

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - complete text.

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books

Playing with father: Anthony Browne's picture books and the masculine.

Drawing out ideas: a second decade of the work of Anthony Browne.

Art and intertextuality in picturebooks

Beatrix Potter: Naturalist Artist

Becoming a Storyteller (Interview with Jan Blake)

Ben Haggarty

Case study of Anthony Browne's 'Zoo'

Cbeebies Stories

CyberArts - Hypertext and Hypermedia

David Lewis article on intertextuality, allusion and knowingness

Dr Mel Comics

Jacqueline Wilson interview

Jane Johnson Manuscript Nursery Library

Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf (Read by Roald Dahl)

Maurice Sendak article (Guardian)

More on picturebook paratexts

Nonsense Books by Edward Lear

Picturebook endpapers

Storyselling: are publishers changing the way children read?

Sub-atomic and Particle Poetry

SurLaLune Fairy Tales

Teletubbies nursery rhymes

The Beatrix Potter Collections

The Beatrix Potter Society

The Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards

The Nightmare Room

Through the Looking Glass (And What Alice Found There) - full text

Varney the Vampire or The Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest

With Clive in India by G.A. Henty




MORE USEFUl LINKS


SPARKNOTES

Roll of Thunder
Harry Potter
Little Women
Treasure Island
His Dark Materials Section 1

Mortal Engines Synopsis

Tom's Midnight Garden Synopsis

Dances with Wolves - Little Red Riding Hood's Long Walk in the Woods

Melvin Burgess on Junk

Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales

JSTOR

Children's Literature Links (Digital Librarian)

Perceptions of Children: Children's Literature of the Eighteenth Century

Harry Potter and Moral Development in Pre-adolescent Children.

The Magic of Harry Potter: Suspending Disbelief in Fiction

Childen's Book Awards

Book Time

Book Trust Children's Books

Books For Keeps

Bibliography of Children's Literature Criticism

The Hockliffe Project

Jane Johnson's Manuscript Nursery Library

International Children's Digital Library

Seven Stories

Harry Potter Criticism

Facebook Group

Pullman youTube Documentary

Philip Pullman interview (Times Online)

Another Philip Pullman interview (Times Online)

Philip Pullman interview (Book Trust)

A Discussion of Peter Pan

Peter Panic: is it a paedophile nightmare, or an innocent tale? (Times)

Peter Pan at the Barbican Theatre Cast List

Disney Peter Pan Full Movie Script

"SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS" HOW IT CAME TO BE WRITTEN by Arthur Ramsome

Coram Boy for stage

Childrens' opinions of Junk

The Real Adolescent: Performance and Negativity in Melvyn Burgess's Junk

Carnivalizing the Future: A New Approach to Theorizing Childhood and Adulthood in Science Fiction for Young Readers

The mystery of Enid Blyton's revival (BBC)

Treasure Island notes

Childhood in crisis? Tracing the contours of 'crisis' and its impact upon contemporary parenting practices

Children's literature: a reader's history, from Aesop to Harry Potter

The Flopsy Bunnies are for the chop, deal with it... (Mail)

Peter Rabbit in Hieroglyphs

ALSC Newbery Medal

Phonemic Chart

The Phonemic Chart

Phonemes

The Foundling Museum

Meet Jamila Gavin (Coram Boy)

Antony Browne interview (Podcast)

Anthony Browne Author Program In-depth Interview Insights Beyond the Slide Shows

Anthony Browne (Walker Books)

Young children interpret the metafictive in Anthony Browne’s Voices in the Park

Drawing Out Ideas:A Second Decade of the Work of Anthony Browne

Notes for the Analysis of a Picture Book

The Drama of Potentiality in Metafictive Picturebooks: Engaging Pictorialization in Shortcut, Ooh-la-la, and Voices in the Park (with Occasional Assistance from A. Wolf’s True Story)

Meter in Poetry and Verse

Poetic Forms

Narrative Structure Codes

British History Timeline (BBC)

The UVic Writer's Guide

Index of Literary Terms (Wiki)

A Glossary of Literary Terms

The Graveyard Book - readings by Neil Gaiman




Contents of Children's Literature: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends


  • List of Figures
  • List of Plates
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction; H.Montgomery & N.Watson
  • PART I: CLASSIC TEXTS
  • LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, LITTLE WOMEN (1868-9)
  • Introduction; N.Watson
  • Little Women: Alcott's Civil War; J.Fetterley
  • 'Wake up and be a man': Little Women, Laurie, and the Ethic of Submission; K.Parille
  • Louisa May Alcott and the Rise of Gender-Specific Series Books; S.A.Wadsworth
  • R.L.STEVENSON, TREASURE ISLAND (1881-2; 1883)
  • Introduction; S.Haslam
  • My First Book: Treasure Island; R.L.Stevenson
  • Slaves to Adventure: the Pure Story of Treasure Island; D.Loxley
  • Treasure Island and the Romance of the British Civil Service; C.Parkes
  • BEATRIX POTTER, THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT (1902)
  • Introduction; S.Goodman
  • Peter Rabbit: Potter's Story; M.Mackey
  • Aesop in the Shadows; P.Hollindale
  • Perspective and Point of View in The Tale of Peter Rabbit; C.Scott
  • TWO CLASSIC POETRY COLLECTIONS, R. L. STEVENSON: A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES (1885) AND A.A.MILNE: WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG (1924)
  • Introduction; N.Watson
  • The Contexts of A Child's Garden of Verses; M.Rosen
  • A.A.Milne: When We Were Very Young; J.Wullschlager
  • J.M.BARRIE, PETER PAN (1904)
  • Introduction; N.Watson
  • Peter Pan and the Spectacle of the Child; J.Rose
  • A Hundred Years of Peter Pan; P.Hollindale
  • Peter Pan and the Pantomime Tradition; D. White and C.Tarr
  • ARTHUR RANSOME, SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS (1930)
  • Introduction; S.Haslam
  • The Lake District Novels; P.Hunt
  • Arthur Ransome and Problems of Literary Assessment; N.Tucker
  • Peter Pan, Wild Cat Island, and the Lure of the Real; A.Bogen
  • PHILIPPA PEARCE, TOM'S MIDNIGHT GARDEN (1958)
  • Introduction; H.Montgomery
  • Loneliness, Dreaming and Discovery: Tom's Midnight Garden; M.Rustin & M.Rustin
  • Midnight Gardens, Magic Wells; M.Nikolajeva
  • Tom's Midnight Garden; R.Natov
  • MILDRED TAYLOR, ROLL OF THUNDER HEAR MY CRY (1976)
  • Introduction; J.Maybin
  • A Search for Law and Justice in a Racist Society; H. Bosmajian
  • The Role of Education in Mildred D. Taylor's Roll of Thunder; C.Denean Cobb
  • Child Agency in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry; K.McDowell
  • PHILIP PULLMAN, NORTHERN LIGHTS (1995)
  • Introduction; H.Montgomery
  • Dust as Metaphor in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials; M.A.Bird
  • Obedience, Disobedience, and Storytelling in C. S. Lewis and Philip Pullman; N.Wood
  • Intertextuality; C.Squires
  • J. K. ROWLING, HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE (1997)
  • Introduction; N.Watson
  • The Phenomenon of Harry Potter, or Why All the Talk?; J.Zipes
  • The Unthinkingness of Harry Potter; S.Gupta
  • Harry Potter and the Reinvention of the Past; A.Blake
  • PART II: CONTEMPORARY TRENDS
  • FICTION FOR ADOLESCENTS: MELVIN BURGESS, JUNK (1996)
  • Introduction; A.Hewings& N.Watson
  • Sympathy for the Devil; M.Burgess
  • 'And It's So Real': Versions of Reality in Melvin Burgess's Junk; J.Stephens
  • RADICAL AGENDAS: BEVERLEY NAIDOO, THE OTHER SIDE OF TRUTH (2000)
  • A Writer's Journey: Retracing The Other Side of Truth; B.Naidoo
  • What is The Other Side of Truth; J.Giles
  • PAST WORLDS: JAMILA GAVIN, CORAM BOY (2000)
  • New Historical Fiction for Children; C.Ringrose
  • Coram Boy as History; J.Gavin
  • FUTURE WORLDS: PHILIP REEVE, MORTAL ENGINES (2001)
  • Carnivalizing the Future: Mortal Engines; K.Sambell
  • Traction Cities, Postmodernisms, and Coming of Age: Mortal Engines; J.Dawson


Contents of Children's Literature: Approaches and Territories

  • List of figures
  • List of plates
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction; J.Maybin & N.Watson
  • PART I: PURPOSES AND HISTORIES
  • Introduction; H.Montgomery
  • Instruction and Delight; P.Hunt
  • Origins: Fairy Tales and Folk Tales; J.Zipes
  • Children's Literature: Birth, Infancy, Maturity; M.Grenby
  • The First Golden Age; H.Carpenter
  • The Same But Different: Conservatism and Revolution in Children's Fiction; P.Hunt
  • Multicultural Agendas; L.Paul
  • Transformative Energies; K.Reynolds
  • PART II: PUBLISHING, PRIZES AND POPULARITY
  • Introduction; J.Maybin
  • Boys' and Girls' Reading, 1884; E.Salmon
  • Empire Boys; J.Bristow
  • 20th Century British Publishing; N.Tucker
  • Prizes! Prizes! Newbery Gold; K.Kidd
  • In Defence of the Indefensible? Some Grounds for Enid Blyton's Appeal; D.Rudd
  • Marketing at the Millennium; C.Squires
  • PART III: POETRY
  • Introduction; N.Watson
  • 'From the Garden to the Street': The History of Poetry for Children; M.Styles
  • The Language of Poems for Children: A Stylistic Case Study; L.Jeffries
  • 'From the Best Poets?' Anthologies for Children; M.Styles
  • PART IV: STORY-TELLING, STAGE AND SCREEN
  • Introduction; N.Watson
  • Stories in Performance; J.Swann
  • Drama; S.Greenhalgh
  • Screen Classics; D.Cartmell
  • PART V: WORDS AND PICTURES
  • Introduction; S.Goodman
  • Texts and Pictures: A History; J.Whalley
  • Picturebook Codes W.Moebius
  • Postmodern Experiments; B.Goldstone
  • PART VI: CONTEMPORARY TRANSFORMATIONS
  • Introduction; A.Hewings
  • In Praise of Adaptation; L.Hutcheon
  • Harry Potter Goes to China; S.Gupta with C.Xiao
  • Reading Transformations; R.Flewitt
  • Cross-reading and Crossover Books; R.Falconer
  • Index


Running order

  • Block 1 Pullman OR J K Rowling;
  • Block 2 Alcott; Stevenson;
  • Block 3 McGough; Barrie;
  • Blockl 4 Ransome, Pearce; Taylor;
  • Block 5 Potter; Browne;
  • Block 6 Naidoo and either Gavin or Reeve; Burgess.
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