| 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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