On Oct 12th, we will read Roderick McGillis, “Humour and the body in children’s literature,” in The Cambridge Companion to Children’s Literature, Edited by M. O. Grenby and Andrea Immel (Cambridge University Press, 2009): 258-271.
As you know, Blog Assignment #3 involves a short blog post and a 5 minute presentation on a primary source (literary book) that McGillis’s article could address–it does not have to be one of the texts he mentions.
Please sign up for primary texts in the comments below after reading his article.
Hi! I will read The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett.
Hi, I’d like to read Does My Head Look Big in This by Randa Abdel- Fattah.
Hi, I will be reading Charlie and the Choclate Factory by Roald Dahl.
I want to look at Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith’s The Stinky Cheese Man!
Choosing between S.K. Ali’s Saints and Misfits and Mariko Tamaki’s This One Summer.
I’m going to look at the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer TV special (1964)!
I’m going to read The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros! (Edit–or Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon).
I’m trying to pick between David Lubar’s short story compliation Wipeout of the Wireless Weenies, which is children’s/middle grade book, or Rainbow Rowell’s Carry On because it is essentially a Harry Potter parody kind of story. One of the things referenced in the article is parody, and of course there was a Harry Potter reference.
I’ll be reading the first book in the Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket.