1) Children's Literature - The Future
Importance of literacy
Quality of literature
Maslow's Hierarchy Theory

2) Erikson's and Piaget's Theories
Erikson's Psychosocial Theory
Piaget's Cognitive Theory

3) Evaluating Children's Books

4) Range of Children's Books
Picture books
Folktales
Fable, Myths and Epics
Modern Fantasy
Poetry
Modern Fiction
Historical Fiction
Biography
Informational books

5) Ages and Stages with Correlated Books - Ages: Infants through age 4
Infants: Magazines, "Feely Books", People Pictures
Toddlers: Board Books, Books transferred to rings, and
WHOSE MOUSE ARE YOU by Krauss and Areugo
Threes: RUNAWAY BUNNY by Margaret Wise Brown
Fours: WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE by Maurice Sendak

6) Ages and Stages with Correlated Books - Ages: 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9
Fives: WILLIAM'S DOLL by Charlotte Zolotow
Sixes: LON PO PO: A RED RIDING HOOD STORY FROM CHINA by Ed
Young
Sevens: SAM, BANGS, AND MOONSHINE by Evaline Ness
Eights: THE GIRL WHO LOVED WILD HORSES by Paul Goble
Nines: KING OF THE WIND by Marguerite Henry

7) Ages and Stages with Correlated Books - Ages: 10, 11, 12 and 13
Ten: ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS by Scott O'Dell
Eleven: BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA by Katherine Patterson
Twelve: JULIE OF THE WOLVES by Jean Craighead George
Thirteen, Girls: THE WITCH OF BLACKBIRD POND by Elizabeth George
Speare
Thirteen, Boys: THE OUTSIDE SHOT by Walter Dean Myers
Thirteen, Boys and Girls: THE PIGMAN by Paul Zindel; HOLES by Louis Sachar
THAT WAS THEN, THIS IS NOW by S.E. Hinton

8) History of Children's Literature - Part 1
AESOP'S FABLES, ORBIS PICTUS, PERRAULT'S FAIRY FAIRY TALES, GRIMM BROTHERS' FAIRY TALES, up To 1920

9) History of Children's Literature - Part 2
After 1920, PETER RABBIT, RAPUNZEL, WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

10) Language and Development - Part 1
The progress of Language from Birth

11) Language and Development - Part 2

12) Books for the Very Young - Part 1
PERRAULT'S FAIRY TALES
MOTHER GOOSE
BRIAN WILDSMITH'S ABC
Counting Books
Concept Books

13) Books for The Very Young - Part 2
Picture Books
Beginning Reader Books
Picture Story Books

14) 20th Century Artists - Part 1
Caldecott Award Winners
Importance of Art in Children's Books
The Literal Child
ORBIS PICTUS
Caxton-Wood engravings
Kate Greenaway
Beatrix Potter, PETER RABBIT

15) 20th Century Artists - Part 2
Ernest Shepard - WINNIE THE POOH
Robert Lawson - RABBIT HILL
Ezra Jack Keats - THE SNOWY DAY and GOGGLES
Mitsumaso Anno - ANNO'S COUNTING BOOK
Brian Wildsmith - BRIAN WILDSMITH'S ABC

16) 20th Century Artists - Part 3
Leo and Diane Dillon - WHY MOSQUITOES BUZZ IN PEOPLE'S EARS AND
ASHANTI TO ZULU
Uri Shulevitz - DAWN
Margaret Wise Brown - GOODNIGHT MOON
Susan Jeffers - ROBERT FROST'S STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY
EVENING

17) 20th Century Artists - Part 4
Chris Van Allsburg - JUMANJI and THE POLAR EXPRESS
Paul O. Zelinsky - RAPUNZEL
Paul Goble - THE GIRL WHO LOVED WILD HORSES
John Steptoe - STEVIE and MUFARO'S BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS
David Macaulay - BLACK AND WHITE

18) Janell Cannon reads and discusses STELLALUNA

19) Origin of Folktales
1. Monogenesis
2. Polygenesis
3. Dreams and Unconscious Emotions
A. Emotional Fantasy
B. Dreams or Nightmares of storytellers
C. Wish Fulfillment
4. Representation of the World in Children's Minds
5. Comparison of the Real and the Fantastic
6. Remnants of Myth and Ritual
A. Allegories
B. Fragments of Spells and Incantations
7. The Cement of Society

20) The Appeal and Pattern of Folktales
1. Introduction
A. To Leading characters
B. The Time
C. The Place
D. The Problem to be Solved or the Conflict to Be Resolved
2. The Development
A. Moves toward the problem
B. The quest begins
C. The tasks are initiated and performed
D. Flight gets under way
E. Obstacles appear
F. Hero or Heroine reduced to despair or Helplessness or further peril
3. Conclusion Swift and Satisfying
A. Killing the troll
B. Kiss for the sleeping princess
C. Devouring the ogre-turned-mouse in Puss-in-Boots
PERRAULT'S MOTHER GOOSE, (France, 1697)
SLEEPING BEAUTY
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
CINDERELLA
BLUEBEARD
RICKY-THE-TUFT
DIAMONDS AND TOADS

21) Different Kinds of Folktales
Cumulative
The House That Jack Built
The Three Little Pigs
The Bremen Town Msuicians
Talking Beasts
Puss-in-Boots
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Droll or Humorous
Clever Elsie
Realistic
Bluebeard
Religious
Virgin Mary
Joseph and His Many Colored Coat
Romance
Beauty and The Beast
Snow White
Sleeping Beauty
Rapunzel

22) relationship of Myth to Folktales
Cupid and Psyche
East 'o the Sun, and West 'o the Moon

23) Western Folktales
Phee and Ken Graydon, Poets and Balladeers
Brer' Rabbit - (Black South) - Joel Chandler Harris
Coyote and Skunk - (Southwest) Papago Indian
Paul Bunyan and Babe, His Blue Ox - (Northwest)
Pecos Bill - (West)
John Henry - (Black Southeast)

24) Fantasy for Children
Hans Christian Anderson - THE LITTLE MERMAID
Lewis Carroll - ALICE IN WONDERLAND
A.A. Milne - WINNIE THE POOH
J.K. Rowling - HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE
HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS
HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN

25) Children and the Harry Potter Books
Discussing Harry Potter

26) Modern Fictions

27) Biographies
1. Evaluation Factors
A. Authenticity
B. Objectivity
C. Documentation
2. Biography as a representation of a Person
3. Biography as Literature
4. Fictionalized Biography
5. Biographical Fiction

28) Informational Books
1. Evaluation Factors
A. Accuracy
B. Timeliness
C. Organization and Scope
D. Author - Responsibility
E. Author - Competence
F. Format
G. Style

29) Poetry
Modern Mother Goose
Robert Louis Stevenson
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Edward Lear
Shel Silverstein