CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
ENGLISH 380

Dr. Theresa Flynn

Course Documents

Assignments

• Syllabus

• Reading Schedule

• Participation Rubric

• Essay Topics

 

• Concept of Childhood
• What makes a Fairy Tale?
• Schools of Critical Thought
  • Marxist Criticism
  • Feminist Criticism
  • Psychoanalytic Criticism
     
• Review for Midterm Exam
   
• Censorship Questions
• Banned Books

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Children's Literature Web Guide
• Dick & Jane Readers
• Fairy Tales Online
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales
  • Animated Grimm's Fairy Tales -- Geared for Children
  • Annotated Fairy Tales
  • Hans Christian Anderson

  Picture Books

  • Where the Wild Things Are

  Literary Criticism

  • Critical Approaches to Literature-Bedford/St. Martins
  • Critical Theory

  Charlotte's Web

  • E. B White - Biography  

  C.S. Lewis

  • Into the Wardrobe: a C.S.Lewis Website

  Censorship

  • Little Black Sambo
  • Little Black Sambo--Project Gutenberg (Clearly more objectionable than the first link)

  • Some thoughts and a bit of history on the publication of Little Black Sambo

  • Struwwelpeter: The Story of the Inky Boys
  • "Hey, Who's the Kid with the Green Umbrella?" Re-evaluating the Black-a-Moor and Little Black Sambo

  Louis Lowry's The Giver

  • Louis Lowry Website