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GENRES IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE - EDU11GCL

This is an introduction to the origins, structural features, questions of definition and current theories of explaining texts in terms of generic expectations and assumptions in relation to children's literature.

La Trobe University Course Handbook - details for this unit
Children's Literature bibliographies - browse these for critical and analytical texts
Heyward Library Subject Guide - portal to useful websites in Children's Literature

READING LIST FOR 2007:

Picture Books

• Who Sank the Boat   ( Pamela Allen)
• Voices in the Park   (Anthony Browne)
• Just Another Ordinary Day  (Rod Clements)
• Water tower  (Gary Crew & Steven Woolman)
• Rosie's Walk   (Pat Hutchins)
• Rose Blanche   (Roberto Innocenti)
• Norton's Hut   (John Marsden)
• Where The Wild Things Are (  Maurice Sendak)
• John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat   (Jenny Wagner & Ron Brooks)
• Let the Celebrations Begin   (Margaret Wild)
• My Place   (Nadia Wheatley & Donna Rawlins)
• Encounter   (Jane Yolen & David Shannon)

 Extended Texts

• Crash! The search for the Stinson  (Jennifer Beck, Dyan Blacklock & Katrina Allen)
• Pankration   (Dyan Blacklock)
• Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes   (Eleanor Coerr)
• Artemis Fowl   (Eoin Colfer)
• Don't Pat the Wombat   (Elizabeth Honey)
• Bridie's Fire (Kirsty Murray)
• Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH   (Robert O'Brien)
• Bridge to Terabithia   (Katherine Paterson)
• Rowan of Rin   (Emily Rodda)
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone   (J.K Rowlings)
• The Hobbit  (JRR Tolkien)

For further details, contact the course co-ordinator David Beagley

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