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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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EDUCATION 465-4
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CHTLDREN'S LITERATURE
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(D1.00)
Regular Summer Semester, 1992 ? Instructor: Dr. J. Dawson
(May 4- July 31) ?
Office: ?
MPX 8639
Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. ? Phone: ?
291-3476 (office)
Location: MPX 7500
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291-3395 (messages)
PREREQUISITE:
60 hours of credit
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course will examine children's literature within an historical, social, cultural,
and literary context. Major genres of children's literature as well as themes and
issues will be considered. Group discussions, presentations, and assignments will
emphasize ways of bringing children and books together.
The general objectives of the course are:
- to introduce students to aspects of children's literature in the past and the present
- to encourage an appreciation of children's literature
- to gain an understanding of the range of children's literature: myth, legend, fairy
tales, fantasy, animal stories, adventure stories, domestic stories, poetry
- to acquire an ability to analyze, select, and evaluate works of children's literature
- to develop methods of presenting stories and poems to children
COURSE ASSESSMENT
1. three written assignments
2. an oral presentation
3.
class participation
REQUIRED TEXTS
Demers, Patricia, and Gordon Moyles, eds.
Anthology of Children's
Literature to 1850. Toronto: Oxford UP, 1982.
Zipes, J. trans. The Complete Fair
y
Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Volume I. New
York: Bantam, 1988.
Sutcliff, Rosemary. Dragon
Slayer, Penguin, 1981.
Barrie, James. Peter Pan.
Penguin, 1977.
Aiken, Joan. The Wolves of
Willoughb y
Chase. Penguin, 1968.
Lewis, C.S. The Magician's Nep
hew. Harper Collins, 1990.
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of
Peter Rabbit. Penguin, 1987.
White, E.B. Charlotte's Web.
New York: Harper and Row, 1973.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island. Penguin, 1977.
Clark, Joan. The Hand of
Robin S
q uires. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1981.
Alcott, Louisa May. Little
Women, Penguin, 1953.
Kogawa, Joy. Naomi's Road,
Toronto: Oxford UP, 1986.
Patton, Brian, ed. The Puffin
Book of Twentieth-Century
Children's Verse. Penguin,
1991.
RECOMMENDED TEXTS
Sutherland, Zena and May Hill Arbthnot. Children and Books. Eighth edition. New
York: Harper Collins, 1991.
Booth, David, Larry Swartz and Meguido Zola. Choosing Children's Books. Pembroke
House, 1987.
