COURSE SYLLABUS, SPRING, 2007
Carroll, Lewis. Alice in Wonderland. New York: Norton, 1971.
Choi, Sook Nyul. Halmoni and the Picnic. Karen M. Dugan, ill. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
Dahl, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. New York: Bantam, 1979.
Flack, Marjorie. Angus and the Cat. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1932, 1997.
Hergé. Prisoners of the Sun. Boston: Atlantic Monthly, Little, 1975.
Rushdie, Salman. Haroun and the Sea of
Stories. London, New York: Viking, 1990.
Say, Allen. Emma's Rug.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
Sendak, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are. New York: Harper and Row, 1963.
Thompson, Stith, ed. One Hundred Favorite Folktales. Bloomington: Indiana U., 1968.
Zipes, Jack, ed. & trans. The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, 3rd ed. New York: Bantam, 2003.
For readings in selected Greek,
Hungarian
and African myths and tales and other assigned readings not included in
the
above
texts, please follow links from
Synopses
& Additional Required Texts section
for each lecture.
USEFUL FOR BACKGROUND ("recommended")
Bang, Molly. Picture This: Perception and Composition.
Boston: Bulfinch/Little,
Brown, 1991.
Hunt, Peter. Children's Literature: the Development of Criticism.
London and New York: Routledge, 1990.
Lüthi, Max 0. Once Upon a Time: On the Nature of Fairy Tales.
Bloomington: Indiana U, 1976.
Recommended Theory and Criticism
ALL REQUIRED TEXTS (except for Dégh, ed. and Feldman, ed., above) ARE AVAILABLE AT THE JEFFREY AMHERST COLLEGE STORE (in the building behind the Jeffrey Amherst Bookshop). The Jeffrey Amherst Bookshop is located opposite the Amherst Common on South Pleasant Street. Children's books (other than Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , Prisoners of the Sun, Where the Wild Things Are, Angus and the Cat!) may be borrowed from the Jones Library (Town Library, on Amity Street) or purchased at the Jeffrey Amherst Bookshop. The Story about Ping and Curious George will be read in class and need not be purchased or borrowed. A limited supply of the books listed below may be available at the Jeffrey Amherst College Store.
Babbitt, Natalie. Tuck Everlasting Hamilton, Virginia. Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush ; Ende, Michael. The Neverending Story Pearce, Philippa. Tom's Midnight Garden White. E.B. Charlotte's Web
INSTRUCTORS
Prof. Wm. Moebius (pronounced "May-be-us"). 428 Herter Hall. Tel.
545-5811. Email: bmoebius@complit.umass.edu.
Office hours Wednesdays 3:00-5:00 by appointment (please call Mrs.
Papirio at 545.0929).
Teaching Assistants: Ms. Antonia Carcelan; Ms. Betul Cihan; Ms. Nahir Otaño. Tel.545-O929.
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SUMMARY OF COURSE REQUIREMENTS
Read and reread assigned stories. Be prepared to discuss these readings in your discussion section..
Earn passing grades on the mid-term and final examinations.*
Earn passing grades on assigned papers.* All writing assignments, whether graded or ungraded, must be turned in on the date due.
Earn passing grades on all short quizzes. One quiz grade may be deleted at your option.
Fill out and return feedback sheets when due during the semester.
Attendance and participation in discussion sections is required. Attendance and attention at lectures is strongly recommended.
*If you do not receive a passing grade on an assigned paper,
you may rewrite and resubmit the paper within one week after
the original paper has been returned to you with a grade. If you do not
receive a passing grade on an examination, you may, with the
instructor's permission, make up
the examination by passing a second examination and writing an
additional paper.
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Notice that you may choose which of the recommended children's
stories you read each week of the semester. Exercise that choice! The
more widely you read, the better informed will your choice of
children's books be, come the time when you must write a critical paper.
Take the advice of Atif Khan, a UMass graduate, whose legacy
includes
his 7
Easy Steps to A's in College. Check it
out.
Avoid the rush. The W.E.B.Dubois Library has a limited number of children's books suitable for the writing assignments for this course. It behooves every conscientious student to be proactive in doing research as soon as the assignment is published, starting at the W.E.B. Dubois Library, and then at various local public libraries. The Jones Library in Amherst center cannot meet borrowers' demands for certain books a week before papers are due, and cannot be expected to shoulder the demand from students who wait until the last minute to do research for a paper. Try the Forbes Library in Northampton, the Munson Library in South Amherst, the North Amherst Library, the Clapp Library in Belchertown and, as a last resort, the public library in the local area you are from.
If you will need an accommodation due to a learning, hearing, seeing, or mobility disability, please let us know as soon as possible so that we can make arrangements to provide such an accommodation.
In a large lecture hall, it is easy to feel, as a student, that you
could be anyone in the audience, and no one. It is easy to see a
talking head in front of the class who appears to be speaking to no one
in particular, and to feel that no one is paying attention to you as a
person. Despite these appearances, we ask each of you to respect
each other and those who have the privilege of lecturing here,
by arriving in class before lecture begins and by remaining in
your seat until the lecture is concluded.
LECTURE SCHEDULE, SPRING, 2007
Click on lecture titles below to
see required and recommended readings
Feb. 12 Reading
picture books: presentational process
Feb. 14 Reading
text: the child reader
Feb. 19 Holiday
Apr. 2 Who? Where? Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Apr. 30 Child as master or servant: roles, rules and power
SECOND PAPER DUE Friday, May 4
May 2 Competing sisters:
roles,
rules and power
FINAL EXAMINATION: Monday, May 21 at 8 a.m. in Mahar Auditorium 108.
READING ASSIGNMENTS: A SCHEDULE
I. INTRODUCTION TO THE READING OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
Jan. 29: Introduction: scope, aims, methods
Jan. 31: Five axes of transformation
Required: "The Adventures of Mrile"
Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
(available
at Jeffrey Amherst College Book Store)
Grimm: "How Some Children Played at Slaughtering,"
p.
650
Feb. 5: Picture books: a short history
Recommended:Feb. 7, Feb. 12: Reading picture books: presented world & presentational process
Required: Marjorie Flack, Angus and the Cat; Allen Say, Emma's Rug
Recommended:
Istvan Banyai. Zoom. See also Re-Zoom
H.A. and Margret Rey, Curious George (original
edition)
Marjorie Flack and Kurt Wiese, The Story About Ping
Bernard Waber, Ira Sleeps Over
Feb. 14: Reading the text: the child reader
Required: Michael Ende, The Neverending Story (excerpts)
Recommended:
Arnold Lobel, "Dragons and
Giants" in
Frog and Toad Together.
David Wiesner, Tuesday
Feb. 21: Richness of text: story as instructions
Required:
Meindert de Jong, Along Came a Dog (excerpts: please
do not read in advance, but bring to discussion)
Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting (excerpts: please do
not read
in advance, but bring to discussion)
One of the books recommended just below:
-Recommended:
Janet Ahlberg and Allan Ahlberg, The Jolly
Postman or
Other People's Letters
Michael Rosen, pictures by Kathy Henderson, Once
there was a King who promised he would never chop anyone's head off
Jon Sciescka, ill. by Lane Smith. The True Story of
the Three Little Pigs
Dr. Seuss, Ad To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry
Street or McElligot's Pool \
Lemony Snicket, ill. by Brett Helquist. A Series of
Unfortunate Events, The Bad Beginning and others in the series
Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly, Little
Lit: Folklore & Fairy Tale Funnies.
David Wiesner, The Three Pigs.
Ziraldo, O Menino Quadradinho.
II. MODES OF SELF-SUFFICIENCY & DEPENDENCY: CHARACTER IN ACTION
Feb. 26: All-powerful? child in tale and story
Required:
African:
Hungarian:
The King with the Cannibal Tastes, pp.
298f.
Csucskári, pp. 15-28
The Black Bull and the Garaboncías,pp.273-276
The Grateful Garaboncías, pp. 283-285
Grimm:
Thumbling, pp. 143-147
Thumbling's Travels, pp.164-l67
-Recommended:
Chris Van Allsburg, Ben's Dream
Molly Bang, pictures by Ting Chen, The Cucumber Stem
William Pène du Bois, Peter Graves
Margaret Wise Brown, Shhh .. Bang
John Burningham, Avocado Baby
--------------------, Where's Julius?
Remy Charlip, Mother, Mother, I Feel Sick, Send for
the Doctor, Quick,, Quick, Quick
Teng Cheng (adapter), Havoc in Heaven (Beijing
Foreign Language Press, 1979)
-----------, Delphine
Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio: The Adventures of a
Marionette
Roald Dahl, Matilda
Hergé, Tintin au Pays des Soviets. (Tintin in
the land of the Soviets).
Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking
David Wiesner, June 29, 1999.
Feb. 28: Two Quests: Approaches to stories and Objectives and Obstacles in the Stories Themselves
African:
How the Lesser Gods Came Into the World, pp. 76-82
The Hare and the Baboon, pp. 155-166
The Rabbit and the Antelope, pp. 141-144
Grimm:
The Companionship of the Cat and the Mouse, pp. 5-7
Hungarian:
The Fable of the Stomach, pp. 215f.
Three Kids, the Billy Goat and the Wolf, pp. 196ff.
-Recommended:
Sue Alexander, pictures by Tomie de Paola, Marc
the Magnificent
Mitsumasa Anno, The King's Flower
Lenore Blegvad, ill. by Eric Blegvad, Anna Banana
and Me
Claire Huchet Bishop, The Man Who Lost His Head, ill. by
Robert McCloskey
Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Gertrude Crampton, pictures by Tibor Gergely, Tootle
Wesley Dennis, Flip
Elzbieta, Flon-Flon
& Musette
Ruth Hürlimann, ill. The Cat and Mouse Who
Shared a House
Arnold Lobel, Frog and Toad Together , "The
Dream," "A List"
Robert McCloskey, Blueberries for Sal
Doris Orgel, Godfather
Cat and Mousie (after the Brothers Grimm), ill. by Ann
Schweninger
Watty Piper, The Little Engine That Could
Judith Viorst, I'll Fix Anthony
Mar. 5: Quest for food: from appetite to identity
Required:
African:
Grimm:
The Swallowing Monster, pp.
97-99
Hansel and Gretel, pp. 58-64
The Hare's Bride, pp. 264-265
Thompson:
Little Red Cap, pp. 101-105
The Pancake, pp.
430-433
Rapunzel, pp. 46-49
Clever Gretel, pp. 286-288
The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids, pp.20-22
Recommended:
Karen Born Andersen, What's the Matter, Sylvie,
Can't You Ride?
Kathleen Arnott, "The Thieving Ogre" in Dragons,
Ogres and Scarey Things
P.C. Asbjørnsen, ill. Marcia Sewall, The
Squire's Bride
Steve Augarde, Pig
Anthony Browne, the Grimms' Hansel and Gretel
--------- --------, Willy the Wimp
John Burningham, Where's Julius?
Elzbiets, Petit-Gris
Johnny Gruelle, Adventures of Raggedy Ann :
"Raggedy Ann Learns a Lesson"
Lillian and Russell Hoban, Harvey's Hideout
Mira Lobe, Das kleineIch Bin Ich
Arnold Lobel, Frog and Toad Together ,
"Cookies"
James Marshall, Little Red Riding Hood
Ann McGovern, Too Much Noise
A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh , Chapters 1 and 2
Beni Montrésor, Little Red Riding Hood
Peter Nickl & Binette Schroeder, Crocodile,
Crocodile
Helen Oxenbury, The Car Trip
Bill Peet, Chester the Worldly Pig
Pef, J'ai Horreur des Gosses
Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Carol Diggory Shields' I Am Really A Princess
Dr. Seuss And To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry
Street
Judith Viorst, The Tenth Good Thing About Barney
FIRST PAPER DUE Friday, March 9, 2007
Mar. 7: Animals and plants as food factories
Required:
African:
Hungarian:
M'Wambia and the N'Jenge, pp.
268-272
The Son of the Cow with the Broken Horn, pp. 3-15
The Witch's Doughnuts, pp. 259-264
Grimm:
One-Eye, Two-Eyes and Three-Eyes, pp. 461-467
-Recommended:
Harold Berson, Truffles for Lunch
Elzbieta, Bibi
Jean George, My Side of the Mountain
Mar. 12: Growing up empty? Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
(Note: many of us have seen movie adaptations, based on the book.
Familiar
as these adaptations
may be to most of us, the movie adaptations are not the assigned reading;
the
book is.)
Required: Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Mar. 14: Animal helpers as part of the self
Required:
African:
Grimm:
The Wonderworker of the Plains, pp.
236-244
The Three Feathers, pp. 254-256
The Queen Bee, pp. 252-253
Thompson:
Hans My Hedgehog, p. 393-397
The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body, pp.
6-14 The
Thief and his Master, pp. 267-269
The Doctor and His Pupil, pp. 45-48
Recommended:
Molly Bang, Dawn
Hans Baumann, ill. by Eric Carle, Chip has many
brothers
Raymond Briggs, The Bear
Anthony Browne, Gorilla
Helen Cresswell, Ordinary Jack
Fred Gipson, Old Yeller
Marguerite Henry, Misty of Chincoteague
Phyliss Reynolds Naylor, Shiloh
Sterling North, Rascal
Scott O'Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins
Ouida. A Dog of Flanders .
AiLing Louie, Ill. by Ed Young, Yeh-Shen: A
Cinderella Story fromChina
Bernard Waber, Ira Sleeps Over
Alki Zeï, Wildcat Under Glass (tr. by
Edward Fenton)
Spring Break, March 17-25
Mar. 26: Siblings and dolls as vice-existers
Required:
African:
Grimm:
How the Earth was Peopled, pp.
38f.
Brother and Sister, pp.
41-46
The Twelve Brothers, pp. 35-39
The Seven Ravens, pp. 99-101
Foundling, pp. 189-192
Recommended:
Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline
Claire Huchet Bishop and Kurt Wiese, The Five Chinese Brothers
Francis Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
Mary Mapes Dodge. Mary Anne.
Rumer Godden. The Holly and the Ivy.
Louise Goodman, Ida's Doll.
Patricia Hermes. When Snow Lay Soft on the Mountain.
E. Nesbit, The Railway Children
Claire A.Nivola. Elisabeth.
Katherine Paterson, Park's Quest
Philippa Pearce, Tom's Midnight Garden
Ungerer, Tomie. Otto.
If you
read French, see also http://www.comptines.fr/ARCHVIT.dir/Vit44.dir/bibliocamps.htm
Mar. 28: Parents as donors and challengers
Required:
Hungarian:
The Tale of King, a Prince and a Horse, pp. 57-77
Grimm:
Cinderella, pp. 86-92
Thompson:
Katie Woodencloak, pp. 177-187
The myth of Oedipus
Recommended:
Joan Blos, A Gathering of Days
Lizi Boyd, The Not-So-Wicked-Stepmother
Anthony Browne, Gorilla
Susan M. Coolidge, What Katy Did
Ann Fine, Step by Wicked Step
Jane Langton, A Diamond in the Window
Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Goes Abroad
--------------------, Pippi in the South Seas
Barbara McClintock. The Fantastic Drawings of
Danielle.
Mary Rodgers, Freaky Friday
Zibby Oneal, A Formal Feeling
Allen Say. Allison
Bernard Waber, Lyle Finds his Mother
TUESDAY April 3 MID-TERM EXAMINATION: Hasbrouck Room 20, 7:00-9:00 P.M.
III. THE ORDER OF THINGS: REPRESENTATIONS OF WORLD & HUMAN VALUES
A. LANGUAGE AND THE LOGIC OF SPACE
Apr. 2: Who? Where? Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Required: Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland (complete edition; do
not rely on abridged versions)
Recommended:
Read the original version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
on-line.
Go to this link,
(http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/alice/alice_broadband.htm)
Apr. 4: Taxonomy by twos I: raw and cooked; geography revisited
Required:
African:
Mulungu and the Beasts,
When the Sky was Close, p.39
The Tower to Heaven, pp. 41f.
The Separation of God from Man, pp. 42-47-
How the Lame Boy Brought Fire From Heaven, pp. 100-102
How the Earth Folk Received Fire, pp. 102f.
Fire from Heaven, pp. 1O3f
Recommended:
John Burningham, Where's Julius?
Virginia Lee Burton, Mike Mulligan and His Steam
Shovel
Cauméry & Pinchon, Bécassine
pendant la Grande Guerre
Heinrich Hoffmann, Struwwelpeter, "The Very Sad
Story of the Matches"
Phyliss Reynolds Naylor, Alice in Lace
Nina Payne, Adam Payne, Four in All
Margret and H.A. Rey, Whiteblack the Penguin Sees
the World
William Steig, Shrek
William Steig, Solomon the Rusty Nail
Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
April 9: Taxonomy by twos II: the shaping of perspective; social functions of color
Required: Grimm: The Pink Flower, pp.283-286; Sook Nyul Choi: Halmoni and the Picnic
-Recommended:
Nina Bawden, Carrie's War
Sook Nyul Choi. Halmoni and the Picnic.
Robert Cormier, I am the Cheese
Roald Dahl, Danny the Champion of the World
Ingri & Edgar Parin D'Aulaire, Pocahantas
Alan Garner, The Moon of Gomrath
Virginia Hamilton, Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
Leo Lionni. Little Blue and Little Yellow.
Polacco, Patricia. Mrs. Katz and Tush.
---------, ---------. Pink and Say.
Eugene Trivizas, ill. Helen Oxenbury, The Three
Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
Ungerer, Tomie, Flix
April 11: Animal talk, human hearing
Required:
Thompson:
The Three Languages, pp. 306-308
The Language of the Animals, pp. 303-306
Anpu and Bata, pp. 36-44
African: The Two Strangers, pp. 2O0f.
Grimm:
The Three Languages, pp. 127-129
The White Snake, pp. 67-70
Hungarian:
The Man Who Understood the Language of the Animals, pp. 257-259
Recommended
Verna Aardema, ill. by Marc Brown, What's so
funny, Ketu?
Pascale Allamand, The Pop Rooster
Quentin Blake, The Story of the Dancing
Eve Bunting, The Man Who Could Call Down Owls
Thierry Dedieu, The Boy Who Ate Words
Michael Ende, Momo
Eleanor Estes, Pinky Pye
Jean George, Julie of the Wolves
---------------, The Talking Earth
Janosch, Der alte Mann und der Bär
Jane Langton, The Fledgling
Jörg Müller and Jörg Steiner, Un ours, je suis
pourtant un ours! or Der Bär, der ein
Bär bleiben wollte
Claude Roy, la maison qui s'envole
George Selden, A Cricket in Times Square
-----------------, Tucker's Countryside
Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat-
------------,, If I Ran the Zoo
Posy Simmonds, Fred
Frank Tashlin, The Bear Who Wasn't
Bernard Waber, The House on East 88th Street
E.B. White, Charlotte's Web
-------------, The Trumpet of the Swan
Apr. 17: Lost on the sound track: words, meanings...but values?
Required:
Thompson:
Polyphemus the Cyclops, pp. 377-384
Gudbrand on the Hillside, pp. 384-388
Peter Ox, pp. 423-427
Big Claus and Little Claus, pp. 397-407
Hungarian:
When I was a Miller, pp. 203-206
Grimm:
Clever Hans, pp. 123-127
Freddy and Katy, pp. 225-230
The Good Bargain, pp. 28-32
The Three Sons of Fortune, pp. 272-274
Lucky Hans, pp. 302-307
African:
The Perverted Message (all variants), pp. 107-111
-Recommended:
Jim Aylesworth, ill. by Richard Egielski, Mary's
Mirror
Istvan Banyaï, Zoom
Judy Blume, ill. by Irene Trivas, The Pain and the
Great One
Maxine Zohn Bozzo, Toby in the Country, Toby in the
City
Margaret Wise Brown, The Runaway Bunny
John Burningham, Granpa
---------------------, Where's Julius?
Kay Chorao, Lester's Overnight
Robert Cormier, I am the Cheese
Helen Cresswell, Ordinary Jack
Roger Duvoisin, Petunia
Eleanor Estes, Rufus M.
Sid Fleischmann, McBroom's Ghost; McBroom Tells a
Lie
Russell Hoban and Lillian Hoban, A Bargain for
Frances
Peter Hunt, A Step Off The Path
Eugene Ionesco, Conte Numéro 2 pour enfants
de moins de trois ans
Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
Milos Macourek, Curious Tales, "Matilda Get a
Spare Head"
Mary Norton, The Borrowers
Peggy Parish, Amelia Bedelia
Dr. Seuss, "Too Many Daves"; On Beyond Zebra
Bernard Waber, An Anteater Named Arthur
Alki Zeï, Petros' War (tr. by Edward
Fenton)
April 18: Postcolonial perspectives: Whose values?
Required: Hergé, Prisoners of the Sun
-Recommended:
Pascale Allamand, The Camel Who Left the Zoo
Raymond Briggs, When the Wind Blows
Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street
Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War
-------------------, I am the Cheese
Paula Fox, The Slave-Dancer
Jean Fritz, Homesick: My Own Story
Jean George, Julie of the Wolves
Hergé, Seven Crystal Balls
Munro Leaf, The Story of Ferdinand
Julius Lester, Long Journey Home
Myron Levoy, Alan and Naomi
Hector Malot, The Adventures of Remi (Sans
Famille)
Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who
Apr. 25: To be announced
SECOND PAPER DUE Wednesday, May 4, 2007
Apr. 25: Unmentionable, not to be silenced: image and song
Required:
Grimm:
The Singing Bone, pp. 108-109
The Juniper Tree, pp.
171-179
Hungarian:
Pretty Maid Ibronka, pp. 46-57
African:
Let the Big Drum Roll, pp. 223-225
How an Unborn Child Avenged its Mother's Death, pp. 225-229
Recommended:
Natalie Babbitt, Knee-Knock RiseApr. 30: Child as master or servant
Required:
Grimm:
The Goose Girl, pp. 322-327
Faithful Johannes, pp. 22-28
Thompson:
The Servant Who Took the Place of his Master, pp. 215-220
Hungarian:
The Magic Calk, pp. 243-247
The Count's Horses, pp. 246-249
Knowledge obtained at the crossroads, pp. 253-256
A Dead Husband Returns to Reveal Hidden Treasure, pp. 291-296
-Recommended:
Christianna Brand, Nurse Matilda: The Collected Tales.
Edward Ardizzone, ill.
Robert Burch, Ida Early Comes Over the Mountain
Virginia Lee Burton, Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Little Princess
Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
Ann Fine, Alias Mrs. Doubtfire
Sid Fleischmann, Ghost in the Noonday Sun
Paula Fox, The Slave-Dancer
Virginia Hamilton, teller, The People Could Fly: American
Black Folktales, ill. by Leo and Diane Dillon.
See
esp. "The Most Useful Slave." 160-165
Hector Malot, Adventures of Rémi (Sans
famille)
Patricia Polacco, Pink and Say
Nina Payne, words, Adam Payne, pictures, Four in All
Robert Newton Peck, A Day No Pigs Would Die
George Selden, The Genie of Sutton Place
Required:
Grimm:
The White and the Black Bride, pp. 478-482
The Three Little Gnomes in the Forest, pp. 50-55
Mother Holle, pp. 96-99
Princess Mouseskin, pp. 667-668
Thompson:
The White Bride and the Black Bride, pp. 97-102
The Two Stepsisters, pp. 150-157
-Recommended:
Judy Blume, Otherwise Known as Sheila the GreatMay 7: Haroun and the Sea of Stories: issues of power
Required: Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories
May 9: Coming to terms with mothers and fathers: voices
Required:
Grimm:
Snow White, pp. 196-204
The Water of Life, pp. 356-361
The Magic Table, the Gold Donkey..., pp. 134-142
All Fur, pp. 259-263
Simple Hans, 659-660
African:
A Hunter and his Son, pp. 205-208
-Recommended:
Nancy Brelis, The Mummy Market
Anthony Browne, Piggybook
Robert Burch, Queenie Peavey
Nathaniel & Betty Jo Charnley, ill. by Jerome
Snyder, Mother Ann and the Mother Store
Roald Dahl, Danny the Champion of the Worl
Paula Danziger, The Cat Who Ate My Gymsuit
Anita Desai, The Village by the Sea
Jane Langton, Her Majesty, Grace Jones
Norma Fox Mazor, I, Trissy
Christine Nöstlinger, Wir pfeifen auf den
Gurkenkönig
Katherine Paterson, The Great Gilly Hopkins
Patricia Polacco, Pink and Say
Mary Rodgers, Freaky Friday
Ouida Sebestyen, Far From Home
Laurence Yep, Dragonwings
IV. CONTRACTS AND GIFTS: COMING OF AGE
May 14: Contracts: personal and sexual freedom
Required: (read stories marked by * and four others)
African:
The Maiden Who was Sacrificed by her Kin, pp. 278-280
Why the Young Giant Lost His Strength, pp. 303-304
*The Son of Kim-Ana-U-Eze and the Daughter of Sun and Moon, pp. 87-95
Thompson:
*The Rich Man and his Son-In-Law, pp. 137-142
The Self-Propelled Carriage, pp. 194-199
Godfather Death, pp. 73-76
Friends in Life and Death, pp. 147-150
King Bean, pp. 122-126
*The King Who Wanted a Beautiful Wife, pp. 353-355
*East of the Sun, West of the Moon, pp. 113-122
The Frog Princess, pp. 93-97
Grimm:
Fitcher's Bird, pp. 167-171
*Bluebeard, pp. 660-663
*Godfather Death, pp. 160-163
The King of the Golden Mountain, pp. 338-342
The Six Servants, pp. 473-478
The Maiden Without Hands, pp. 118-123
*The Three Snake Leaves, pp. 64-67
The Singing, Springing Lark, pp. 317-321
*The Frog King, or Iron Heinrich, pp. 2-5
The Three Daughters and the Frog King, pp. 716-717
Snow White and Rose Red, pp. 516-521-
Recommended:
Nicola Bayley and William Mayne, The Mouldy
Alain-Fournier, Le Grand Meaulnes, tr. as Lost
Domain
Betsy Byars, Summer of the Swans
---------------, Good-bye, Chicken Little
Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
------------------, The Devil's Storybook
Robert Lawson, Rabbit Hill
C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian
Shulamith Oppenheim, The Selchie's Seed
Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia
Philippa Pearce, The Squirrel Wife
Jane Yolen, The Gift of Sarah Barker
FINAL EXAMINATION: Monday, May 21 at 8
a.m. in Mahar Auditorium 108. For information
about the University's Final Exam policies,
please click here.
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