EN201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nursery Rhyme, Jack Sprat, Pretty Maids
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How to read children"s literature critically. Author and artist are usually different: the way the story is told, how problems are solved. The birth of english- language children"s literature: queer theory. Forms and age levels: board books (newborn to age 3, picture books (3- 8, coloring books. Switched the slide too fast. First children"s book: a little pretty pocket book by john newberry. The success of this book created children"s literature. It tries to attract adults to the parents, nurses etc . John newberry, a pretty little pocket- book (1744: thomas boreman, the gigantick histories od the curiosities of london (1740- , mary cooper. Jonathan swift, gulliver"s travels (1726: many writers focused on children"s literature because the market for children"s literature was growing. Long list he will post it on myls j . Most of these books have many adaptations and tourist sites attached to them. Many of them circulate today in different forms eg. parody"s.
