English 240 - Literature for Younger Readers
Dr. Wally Hastings - Northern State University
 
 

Lecture Notes from Previous Years

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Notes on Fairy Tales

Adolescent Literature and New Media (2002)

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (2004)

Louisa May Alcott - "Psyche's Art"

Hans Christian Andersen - Background
Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak (2005)
M.T. Anderson, Feed (2005) 
Molly Bang: Principles of Illustration

Sir James Barrie - Peter Pan
L. Frank Baum, Twinkle Tales

L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
William Blake, Songs of Innocence (2004)
Jan Brett, Berlioz the Bear (2004)

The Brownies' Book

Eve Bunting & David Diaz, Smoky Night (2002)
John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress (2004)
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden (2004)
Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (2004)

Chapbooks: Goody Two-Shoes; Children in the Wood; Dick Whittington
Beverly Cleary, Muggie Maggie (1999)
Andrew Clements, Frindle  (2000)

Andrew Clements, The School Story (2006)
Daniel Clowes - Ghost World (2005)
Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen, The Magic School Bus (Series)
Joanna Cole and Bruce Degan, The Magic Schoolbus: At the Waterworks

Joanna Cole & Bruce Degen, The Magic School Bus in the Time of the Dinosaurs
Joanna Cole & Bruce Degen, The Magic Schoolbus Lost in the Solar System
Robert Cormier - Life (2002)
Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War (2002)
Chris Crutcher - Whale Talk (2005)
Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

Karen Cushman, Catherine, Called Birdy (2000)
Defining Picture Books (1998)
Defining Young Adult Literature (2005)

Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
Fantasy - Definitions and Theories (2001)

Sarah Fielding - The Governess

Bonnie Geisert, Prairie Summer

Mordicai Gerstein, The Man Who Walked Between the Towers

Paul Goble, The Legend of the White Buffalo Woman and The Great Race of the Birds and Animals

Kenneth Grahame - "The Reluctant Dragon"
Karen Hesse, Out of the Dust (2000)
History of Book Illustration
History of Children's Literature
Heinrich Hoffmann, Struwwelpeter  

M. E. Kerr - Deliver Us from Evie

Rudyard Kipling - Just So Stories
Learning to Read in the 20th Century: Dick and Jane, Dr. Seuss's ABC, and Frog and Toad Are Friends

Jamie Lee, Washaka: The Bear Dancer

Ursula K. LeGuin, A Wizard of Earthsea (2002)
Julius Lester & Jerry Pinkney, John Henry (2002)
Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted (2000)
C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (2001)
Looking at Picture Books (2000)
Lois Lowry, The Giver (1999)

Lullabies and Nursery Rhymes

David Macaulay, Cathedral (2000)
David Macaulay, City (1998)

George MacDonald - "The Light Princess"

Carolyn Mackler - The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things (2005)
A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh (2004)

Pat Mora - Confetti: Poems for Children

Walter Dean Myers, Monster (2002)

Myth in Children's Literature

Lensey Namioka - Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear

Marilyn Nelson - Carver, A Life in Poems

E. Nesbit - The Phoenix and the Carpet
Katherine Paterson - Life
Katherine Paterson, The Flip-Flop Girl

Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved  

Picture Books

Charles Perrault, Fairy Tales (2004)
Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2006)

Pam Munoz Ryan, Esperanza Rising (2006)

Louis Sachar, Holes (2006)

J.D. Salinger, Life
J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye  
Jon Scieszka, The Good, the Bad, and the Goofy
Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith, The Stinky Cheese Man
Maurice Sendak - Life
Maurice Sendak, In the Night Kitchen  
Maurice Sendak, Where theWild Things Are  
Dr. Seuss, On Beyond Zebra!
Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
Cynthia Leitich Smith, Rain Is Not My Indian Name

Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, The Trickster and the Troll

Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, When Thunders Spoke
Some Theoretical Considerations in Adolescent Literature
Art Spiegelman, Maus
Jerry Spinelli, Maniac Magee

Robert Louis Stevenson - A Child's Garden of Verses
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (2001)

Toward a Theory of Historical Fiction for Children (2006)

Janet Howe Townsley, Dakota Dreams: Fannie Sabra Howe's Own Story, 1881-1884
P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins (2001)
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer  
Isaac Watts - Divine Songs for Children

Ways to Look at Illustrated Books  
Bernelda Wheeler, Where Did You Get Your Moccasins? (2000)

Oscar Wilde - "The Happy Prince"

Laura Ingalls Wilder: Life

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie

Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter
David Wisniewski, Sundiata (2002)

Gene Luan Yang, American Born Chinese
Paul Zelinsky, Rapunzel

Zitkala-Ša, Iktomi and the Ducks and Other Sioux Stories
   

Last updated June 24, 2007