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• No readings assigned this week.

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• Practice using e-mail (optional).
• Practice submitting assignments (optional).

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• Chambers, Tell Me: Children, Reading, and Talk.
• Gantos, Dead End in Norvelt.

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• Keywords for Children's Literature: "Childhood" and "Children's Literature"
  
  Note: Most of our keyword essay readings are from the second edition of Keywords for Children's Literature, edited by Philip Nel, Lissa Paul, and Nina Christensen; some of them are from the from the first edition, edited by Nel and Paul.  Essays assigned from the first edition are available via links to the publisher's website.  You'll see these links in the syllabus and associated lesson pages.
• Pullman, I Was a Rat.

E-Reserves (To access these articles, click on the Library Resources link in your Course Navigation Menu.)

• Nodelman, Perry and Mavis Reimer. "Common assumptions about childhood." The Pleasures of Children's Literature. Boston. Allyn and Bacon. 2003. pp. 95-107.
  • Note: This book, ISBN: 0801332486, will be useful in all of the courses in this program, which is why it's a recommended but not required purchase.

Other Readings

• Bottigheimer, R. B. "An Important System of Its Own: Defining Children's Literature." Princeton University Library Chronicle, 59 (1998): 191-210. 
• Galbraith, M. "Hear My Cry: A Manifesto for an Emancipatory Childhood Studies Approach to Children's Literature." The Lion and the Unicorn 25 (2001): 187-205.

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• Submit First Response Paper.

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• Gantos, Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key.
• Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Tine.

E-Reserves (To access these articles, click on the Library Resources link in your Course Navigation Menu.)

• Chambers, A. "The Reader in the Book." In Booktalk: Occasional Writing on Literature and Children, 34-58. Gloucester, U. K.: Thimble Press, 1985.

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• Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat
• Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking
• Pullman, I Was a Rat

E-Reserves (To access these articles, click on the Library Resources link in your Course Navigation Menu.)

• Stallybrass, P. & White, A. "Introduction." The Politics and Poetics of Transgression, 1-26. Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1986.

Other Readings

• Menand, Louis. "Cat People." The New Yorker. (December 2002): 148-154.
• The new Pippi Longstocking? Hunt for new foreign stars of children’s literature (2016): https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/03/hunt-for-new-foreign-stars-pippi-longstocking-childrens-books

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• Keywords for Children's Literature:  "Race," "Class," "Gender," and "Multicultural"
• Erdrich, The Birchbark House
• Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
• Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library (book 1)

E-Reserves (To access these articles, click on the Library Resources link in your Course Navigation Menu.)

• Hade, D. D. "Reading Children's Literature Multiculturally." In Reflections of Change: Children's Literature Since 1945, edited by S. L. Beckett, 215 - 222. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997. 
• Yenika-Agbaw, V.   “Black Cinderella:  Multicultural Literature and School Curriculum.”   Pedagogy, Culture and Society 21.3 (2013) (Optional)

Other Readings

• Simon K. Jones (2018). Comparing Storytelling in Games and Literature. Retrieved from: https://medium.com/@Tarnimus/comparing-storytelling-in-games-literature-4e5ff6ca5a73

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• Form groups to prepare for Response Paper #2: Reader Profile and Library Card. Start working on Response Paper #2.

Wednesday, June 18 to Tuesday, June 24, 2025

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• Keywords for Children's Literature:  "Literacy" and "Reading"
• Pullman: I Was a Rat
• Lesa Cline-Ransome: Finding Langston

E-Reserves (To access these articles, click on the Library Resources link in your Course Navigation Menu.)

• Martin, R. "The Snow Woman." Mysterious Tales of Japan, 28-33. New York: Putnam, 1996.
• Rowland-Storm, Cubbie. (2018). “Creating an Appealing & Useable Classroom Library of High Quality Diverse Nonfiction Texts”

Other Readings

• Common Core:  English Language Arts: Reading Literature
• Test Your Common Core Savvy
• Holladay, The Character of Our Content

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• Submit Second Response Paper: Reader Profile.

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• Keywords for Children's Literature: "Boyhood"
• Spinelli, Jerry. Wringer: Not all birthdays are welcome. New York: HarperTrophy.
• Gardiner, John. Stone Fox. New York: Simon Pulse.
• Waber, Bernard. Ira Sleeps Over. New York: Houghton Mifflin.

E-Reserves (To access these articles, click on the Library Resources link in your Course Navigation Menu.)

• Pollack, W. "Stories of Shame and the Haunting Trauma of Separation: How We Can Connect with Boys and Change the 'Boy Code'." In Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood, 20-51, 402-403. New York: Random House, 1998.

Other Readings

• Hade, D. & Xu, X. Lost Boys and Dead Dogs: Myths of American Boyhood. Unpublished manuscript. This reading is also available via a link in this lesson.
• Healthy Masculinity: 14 Books about Gentle Boys
• The Best Books on Boys and Toxic Masculinity

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• Keywords for Children's Literature:  "Girlhood"
• Burnett, The Secret Garden
• Paterson, Bread and Roses Too
• Martin, "The Snow Woman"

E-Reserves (To access these articles, click on the Library Resources link in your Course Navigation Menu.)

• Paul, L. "Enigma Variations: What Feminist Theory Knows about Children's Literature." In Children's Literature: The Development of Criticism, edited by P. Hunt, 148-165. New York: Routledge, 1990.
• Paul, L. "From Sex-Role Stereotyping to Subjectivity: Feminist Criticism." In Understanding Children's Literature, edited by P. Hunt, 112-123. New York: Routledge, 1999. (Optional) 
• Paul, L. "Feminism Revisited." In Understanding Children's Literature, edited by P. Hunt, 114-127. New York: Routledge, 2005

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  Other Readings (choose one)

• Must Monsters Always be Male?  Huge Gender Bias in Children’s Books
• Roberta Trites (2018). “Becoming and Mattering and ‘Knowing in Being’ in Feminist Novels for the Young”  pages 3-30. Chapter 1 in Trites Twenty-first Century Feminism in Children’s and Adolescent Literature.

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• Banks, The Indian in the Cupboard

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• Rustin, M. and Rustin, M. "Introduction: Deep Structures in Modern Children's Fiction." Narratives of Love and Loss, 1-26. New York: Verso, 1987.
• Rustin, M. and Rustin, M. "The Maternal Capacities of a Small Boy: The Indian in the Cupboard." Narratives of Love and Loss: Studies in Modern Children's Fiction, 104-118. New York: Verso, 1987.

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• Keywords for Children's Literature:  "Empire" and "Postcolonial"
• De Brunhoff, The Story of Babar
• Sherman, The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian
• Banks, The Indian in the Cupboard
• Bunting, Fly Away Home

E-Reserves (To access these articles, click on the Library Resources link in your Course Navigation Menu.)

• Dorfman, A. "Of Elephants and Ducks." In The Empire's Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds, 17-64. New York: Penguin, 1996.
• Hade, D. & Brush, H. (2014) 'The disorders of its own identity': Poverty as aesthetic symbol in eve bunting's picture books.  In Angela Huber (Ed.) Little Red Readings:  Historical Materialist Perspectives on Children’s Literature, 116-132. Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi.

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• Keywords for Children's Literature:  "Marketing"
• Adler, Meet Samantha
• Tripp, Nellie's Promise

E-Reserves (To access these articles, click on the Libary Resources link in your Course Navigation Menu.)

• Hade, D. D. "Storyselling: Are Publishers Changing the Way Children Read?" The Horn Book Magazine (September/October 2002): 509-517.
• Hade, D. D. "Lies My Children's Books Taught Me: History Meets Popular Culture in 'The American Girls' Books." In Voices of the Other: Colonial and Post-Colonial Children's Literature, edited by R. McGillis, 153-164. New York: Garland Press, 2000. 
• Altenderfer et al, “Traditional Tales & Literacy: Pre-service Teachers’ Transmediation of Hansel and Gretel” (Optional)

Other Readings

• Cook, Daniel T. (2018). Children’s Market Researchers as Moral Brokers, Journal of Cultural Economy, DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1514316.
• Flood, A. (2013).  Are children’s Books encouraging Materialsim?
• Taxel, J. Children's Literature at the Turn of the Century: Towards a Political Economy of the Publishing Industry, Research in the Teaching of English 37 (2002): 145-197.
• American Girl 

• Cedepda, Esther. (2013). How a storyteller got shunned. 

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• Submit Third Response Paper.

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• Gile, Oh, How I wished I Could Read
• Waber, Ira Sleeps Over

E-Reserves (To access these articles, click on the Library Resources link in your Course Navigation Menu.)

• Fludernik, M. “Narrative and Narrating,” Chapter 1 from An Introduction to Narratology, 2009: pp. 1-7. 
• Nikolajeva, M. (Chapter 3: "Knowledge of Other People") from Reading for Learning: Cognitive Approaches to Children’s Literature, Amsterdam:  John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014. 75-99.

• Contribute to the Discussion Forums.
• Submit Fourth Response Paper (Multimedial Response).

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• Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

E-Reserves (To access these articles, click on the Library Resources link in your Course Navigation Menu.)

• Hade, D. D. "Living Well in a Time of Terror and Tests: A Meditation on Teaching and Learning with Literature." Trends and Issues 15 (2002): 293-303.
• Fox, A., Gerhart, S., Khairat, A., Sommers, C., Yenika-Agbaw, V. "The Pleasure of Reading The Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series." The Dragon Lode. 35.2 (2017): 27-37. (Optional)

Other Readings

• Noddings, “Caring in Education”, 2010.
• Bergman, Roger.  “Caring for the Ethical Ideal:  Nel Noddings on Moral Education.”  Journal of Moral Education.  33.2 (2004): 149-162.

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• Submit Tell Me Paper.