CLASS SCHEDULE

CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Monsoon 2019

We Da Topic Readings
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1 27 Introduc Katy Waldman. “How Did Children’s Literature Evolve From Prim
/8 tion: Morality Tales to the Likes of Captain Underpants?” (2016)
What is
http://www.slate.com/blogs/nightlight/2016/08/12/how_did_children_s_literat
Children ure_evolve_from_prim_morality_tale
’s
Literatu Seth Lerer. (Introduction pp.1-17) in Children’s Literature: A Reader’s
re? History From Aesop To Harry Potter.

Alphabet  Lavanya Karthik: A Book is a Bee

books in  Dr Seuss: One Fish two fish
Hindi  Dick and Jane primer
and
English.

1a 29 Learning
/8 to read Seth Lerer. (Ch. 5. ‘Playthings of the Mind’ pp. 105-128) in Children’s
Literature: A Reader’s History From Aesop To Harry Potter.

 Sandhya Rao. Grandma’s Eyes. (Bilingual) (2+)

 Nandini Nayar. My Grandfather’s Stick. (3+)

2 3/ Pictures,  Jacob Samson Muttada. Thakitta Tharikitta Bouncing Ball. (2+)

9 words  Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd. Good Night Moon
and  Maurice Sendak. Where the Wild Things Are. (1963)
sounds  Suniti Namjoshi. Little i (5+)
 Bheem Has a Party. (Chhota Bheem series). DK Books

* Bruno Bettelheim. The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and

Importance of Fairy Tales. “Introduction: The Struggle for Meaning”
p.3-28)
* Seth Lerer. “For Grown-Ups Too: The Surprising Depth and
Complexity of Children’s Literature.
https://www.aft.org/ae/winter2014-2015/lerer
2a 5/ Visual Cyndi Giorgis, Nancy J. Johnson, Annamarie Bonomo, Chrissie
9 Literacy Colbert, Angela Conner, Gloria Kauffman and Dottie Kulesza.
“Children's Books: Visual Literacy”
http://www.jstor.org/stable/20204765

Janet C. Richards and Nancy A. Anderson. “What Do I See? What Do

I Think? What Do I Wonder? (STW): A Visual Literacy Strategy to
Help Emergent Readers Focus on Storybook Illustrations”
http://www.jstor.org/stable/20205222

[American Biographies of illustrators and covers of books.]

https://www.mazzamuseum.org/art/artists/

3 10 Learning Paulo Freire. Freire and Macedo on Emancipatory Literacy

/9 the http://neamathisi.com/literacies/chapter-6-critical-literacy-
world pedagogy/freire-and-macedo-on-emancipatory-literacy
through
words

3a 12 Fables – * Seth Lerer. (Ch.2. ‘Ingenuity to Authority’ pp.35-56) in Children’s

/9 Aesop’s Literature: A History From Aesop To Harry Potter.
fables
* Bruno Bettelheim. The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and
Importance of Fairy Tales. “Life Divided From the Inside” (p.23-34)

* Aesop’sFables. Com, http://www.aesopfables.com/aesop1.html

 Tortoise and Hare (Aesop– 226 in Perry index)
 The Crow and the Pitcher (Aesop- 390 in Perry
index)

4 17 Fables - * Naithani, Sadhana. “The Teacher and the Taught: Structures and
/9 Panchata Meaning in the ‘Arabian Nights’ and the ‘Panchatantra.’” Marvels &
ntra Tales, vol. 18, no. 2, 2004, pp. 272–285. JSTOR.
www.jstor.org/stable/41388713.

* Shirin Kulkarni. “Panchatantra – an example of using narratives in

teaching in ancient Indian education”
http://tampub.uta.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/101337/panchatantra.pdf?s
eque nce=1

* Sugandha Srivastava. Examining the Narratological Discourses of

Ancient Children’s Literature in Aesop’s Fables and Panchatantra.
IRJMSH Vol 5 Issue 10 [Year 2014] ISSN 2277 – 9809 (0nline)
4a 19 Fairy * Seth Lerer. (Ch.10. Straw into Gold. pp.209-227) in Children’s
/9 Tales & Literature: A Reader’s History From Aesop To Harry Potter.
alternate
readings * Bruno Bettelheim. The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and
Importance of Fairy Tales. (Part 2, ‘In Fairy land’ – “Little Red Riding
Hood” p. 166-183)

* Charles Perrault. Little Red Riding Hood.

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/perrault02.html

* Angela Carter. “The Werewolf”

https://biblioklept.org/2012/06/03/read-the-werewolf-a-short-fable-by-
angela-carter/

In class - Close Reading the Werewolf [23.13]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHXsLAonwco

5 24 Subversi Cinderella Liberator: Rebecca Solnit and Arthur Rackham

/9 ve Anushka Ravishankar: Tiger
readings
5a 26 Fairy * Zipes, Jack. “What Makes a Repulsive Frog so Appealing: Memetics
/9 Tales and Fairy Tales.” Journal of Folklore Research, vol. 45, no. 2, 2008,
pp. 109–143. JSTOR.

* Interview with Jack Zipes. [This interview was conducted via e-mail
over the month of April, 2002 by Kenn Bannerman]
http://www.bitingdogpress.com/zipes/zipes.html

* “The Frog Prince”

6 1/ Children * C. M. Naim. Popular Jokes and Political History: The Case of Akbar,
10 ’s books Birbal and Mulla Do-Piyaza. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 30,
and short No. 24 (Jun. 17, 1995), pp. 1456-1464
stories http://www.jstor.org/stable/4402881
(5-9)
* Akbar and Birbal Stories -
http://www.smallkidshomework.com/akbar-birbal-stories/

*Krishan and Sudama. “The Eternal Bond of True Friendship”

https://www.dollsofindia.com/library/krishna-sudama/

*Sowmya Rajendran. Wings to Fly. (5+)

* Mahasweta Devi. Our Incredible Cow. (6+)
6a 3/ Socio-
10 political * Lal, Ranjit: The Battle for No. 19. (2007)
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MID TERM BREAK 5/10 TO 13/10
7 15/10 Fantasy and SUBMIT MIDTERM PAPER
Lessons in * Lewis Carrol. Alice in Wonderland.
Morality
*Mary Liston “The Rule of Law Through the Looking Glass”
Law and Literature, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Spring 2009), pp. 42-77
Ww.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/lal.2009.21.1.42

* Richard Morton. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and

"Through the Looking Glass” Elementary English, Vol. 37, No. 8
(DECEMBER, 1960), p.509-513. www.jstor.org/stable/ 41385073

7a 17/1 The Power Joseph Campbell. The Power of Myth - Video links
0 of Myth
Ep. 1: Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth — ‘The
Hero’s Adventure’ (1:47)
http://billmoyers.com/content/ep-1-joseph-campbell-and-the-
power-of-myth-the-hero%E2%80%99s-adventure-audio/

The HERO'S JOURNEY - Joseph Campbell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNPcefZKmZ0

Joseph Campbell on Following Your Bliss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLKUFYAOoRI

8 22/1 Bibliotherap * Kevin Helliker: Bibliotherapy: Reading Your Way To Mental

0 y Health.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB118583572352482728

* Shechtman, Z: “Bibliotherapy As A Method Of Treatment”

8a 24/1 * Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. (1997)
0
* Black, Sharon. “The Magic of Harry Potter: Symbols and
Heroes of Fantasy” Children’s Literature in Education, Vol. 34,
No. 3, September 2003 (2003).
http://img2.timg.co.il/forums/1_140796930.pdf
  Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung's archetypes in Harry
Potter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHZIp_LBNt8

9 ACK - * Nandini Chandra: The Classic Popular Amar Chitra Katha,

ideology 1967-2007 (Pb – 2008)

* Frances Pritchett. “The World of ACK” (pp. 76-107) In Babb

& Wadley, ‘Media and The Transformation of Religion in South
Asia.’ (1997)

* Bose, Rupleena. “Amar Chitra Katha and Its Cultural

Ideology.” Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 44, no. 21, 2009,
pp. 33–35.

 Mirabai, Sati Savitri, Ramayana- ACK.

9a 29/1 ACK – * J.C Hawley. “The Saint Subdued: Domestic Virtue and
0 saints National Integration in ACK.” (pp. 107-137). In Babb & Wadley,
Religious ‘Media and The Transformation of Religion in South Asia.’
and national (1997)
identity at
home and in * Geetanjali Singh Chanda: “Sikh Children’s Literature in the
the diaspora Diaspora”. In Michael Hawley (Ed). Sikh Diaspora: Theory,
Agency, Experience. BRILL (2013)

* Bhakti saints, Sikh Gurus (ACK)

*The Puffin Book of Hindu Gods and Goddesses.

* Bhakti Mathur. Ramayana. (Amma Tell Me About series)

10 31/1 Chapter Antoine de Saint Exupery. The Little Prince. (1943)

0 books

10 5/11 Short * Ruskin Bond. “The Cherry Tree” (1980)

a stories * Shel Silverstein. The Giving Tree (1964)

11 7/11 * Salman Rushdie. Haroun & the Sea of Stories. (1990)

* Andrew S. Teverson. “Fairy Tale Politics: Free Speech and

Multiculturalism in "Haroun and the Sea of Stories" (pp.444-466)
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3175990
11 12/1  Zipes, Jack. "Breaking the Disney Spell." Academia.edu.
a 1 http://www.academia.edu/9699464/Breaking_the_Disney
_Spell

* Deborah Ross. Escape from Wonderland: Disney and the

Female Imagination (2004), pp. 53-66. http://www.jstor.org/stab
 http://www.jstor.org/stable/41388684

 Aladdin: Arabian Nights [view before class]. In class

writing workshop.
 Disney Film Mulan (1998) -view before class. In class
writing.

12 14/1 * Roald Dahl. Matilda (1988)

1 * Clémentine Beauvais: Child Giftedness as Class Weaponry:
The Case of Roald Dahl’s Matilda.

12 19/1 TBA
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13 21/1 TBA
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13 26/1 TBA
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14 29/1 Round up.
1 Final paper due 30/11/2019