Reading Schedule:
August 31st: Thomas, The Hate U Give
September 7th: Palacio, Wonder
Elizabeth A. Wheeler, “No Monsters in this Fairy Tale: Wonder and the New Children’s Literature.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 38.3 (Fall 2013): 335-350.
September 14th: Tamaki and Tamaki, Skim
Marty Fink, “It Gets Fatter: Graphic Fatness and Resilient Eating in Mariko and Jillian Tamaki’s Skim.” Fat Studies, 2 (2013): 132–146.
Tuesday, September 19th (Thursday schedule): Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Kenneth Kidd, “Queer Theory’s Child and Children’s Literature Studies.” PMLA 126 (2011): 182-188.
September 21st:
Class cancelled as per academic calendar
September 28th:
Shusterman, Challenger Deep
Maria Nikolajeva, excerpts from Reading for Learning: Cognitive Approaches to Children’s Literature (Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014). Print copy on reserve:
“What is Cognitive Criticism and what’s in it for children’s literature research?”: 1-20.
“Knowledge of Self”: 141-154.
“How to read a children’s book and why:” 225-228.
October 5th:
Alexie, Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Bryan Ripley Crandall, “Adding a Disability Perspective When Reading Adolescent Literature: Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.” The ALAN Review (Winter 2009): 71-78.
Adrienne Kertzer, “Not Exactly: Intertextual Identity and Risky Laughter in Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.” Children’s Literature 40 (2012): 49-77.
October 12th:
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.
October 19th:
Roberta Seelinger Trites, “Blending and Cultural Narratives,” in Literary Conceptualizations of Growth (John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014): 55-79.
Angela Johnson, a cool moonlight
You might be interested in reading the other primary sources she uses, including:
Monica Hughes, Keeper of the Isis Light; Neal Shusterman, Unwind; Boori Monty Pryor, Njunjul the Sun.
Keeper of the Isis Light was a really important childhood book for me; I met Monica Hughes several times when I was growing up in Fort McMurray, Alberta (she lived in Edmonton, Alberta and some of her books were inspired by Edmonton and also the Canadian north). I interviewed her for the collection I co-edited with Elaine Ostry, Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Young Adults.
