ENG 170: Foundations in Children's Literature

Syllabi for ENG 170 in .pdf format

Research paper links

• Click here to link to the American Library Association's list of Caldecott Medal Winners.
• Link to .pdf of Mark I. West's "Key Reference Works Related to Children's Literature" from Everyone's Guide to Children's Literature. Ft. Atkinson, WI: Highsmith Co., 1997.
• Research & Writing Resources for Children's Literature.  A list I've compiled to help you on your research papers.  Includes links to online resources, journals and more, plus a list of books.
• If you are struggling to write a literary analysis paper, read "How to Write a Research Paper in Literature" by Geoff Baker at Chico State University (.pdf format)
• Check out the 60Second Recap video page on How to Write a Paper.  Informative, lively points about writing academic papers. Can your paper pass all the tests?  

Resources about children's literature for research 

• Link to .pdf of Mark I. West's "Key Reference Works Related to Children's Literature " from Everyone's Guide to Children's Literature.
• illustration by Quentin BlakeGuide to Research in Children's and Young Adult Literature at the University of Illinois. Many resources are also at Milner Library.  Thorough, well annotated lists of books.
• Resources from universities: Children's Literature Pathfinder for Parents and Teachers at Univ. of South Florida.
• Online Children's Literature Journals
• Journals that publish articles on children's literature research & criticism. Compiled by Wally Hastings & Michael Joseph
• Children's Literature Resources on the Internet from School Libraries Online.
• Children's literature book awards 

MLA Guide, in .pdf format.  How to write and format your papers.  Important to look at before you hand in the final version of your research paper.

Fairy Tales

The following are selections from Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book.  If you are having trouble finding the book M.C. Waldrep's Favorite Fairy Tales, read these fairy tales online. (updated August 2016) Cinderella, reinterpreted in Vogue, 9/13

Story 7: Cinderella
Story 5: Little Red Riding-Hood
Story 27: Toads and Diamonds
Story 14:The Master Cat, or Puss in Boots
Story 11: Beauty and the Beast
Story 6: The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood

 These versions correspond to the ones in Waldrep.

• Snow Drop [Snow White]
• Rapunzel
• Rumplestilskin
• The Goose Girl
• Little Red Cap (#26)  
• "Little Red-Cap" in .pdf format
• Hansel and Gretel
• Cinderella

Fairy Tales in general

• Additional fairy tales not in M.C. Waldrep's  Favorite Fairy Tales, a .pdf
• Fairy Tales reprinted from Andrew Lang's color book series
• Gustave Dore images, including most fairy tale book
• 

French Fairy tales

• Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book(Univ. of Virginia Library)
• Perrault's "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood"

Fairy Tales collected by the Grimm Brothers and German Fairy Tales 

• German Folk Tales reading: "Little Red-Cap" in .pdf format
• Grimm Brothers' Home page. lots of links and details.
• Gustave Dore site, with many images including those to Grimm's
• National Geographic's 12 "unvarnished" stories from 1914 edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales
• Tenggren's illustrations for Grimm's Fairy Tales from Hollywood Animation Archive
• Annotated Hansel & Gretel at www.SurLaLunaFairyTales.com
  

H. C. Andersen

Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales 

• "The Princess and the Pea" also called "How to Tell"
• "The Ugly Duckling"
• "The Swineheard"
• "The Snow Queen"
• "The Nightingale"

Hans Christian Andersen literary fairy tales

• "The Princess and The Pea" (1835)
• "The Nightingale" (1844)
• "The Ugly Duckling" (1844)
• "The Emperor's New Suit "(1837)
• "The Little Mermaid "(1836)
• "The Swineherd" (1842)
• "The Brave Tin Soldier" (1838)
• "The Little Match Girl" (1846)

H.C. Anderson materials

• The Hans Christian Andersen Center at the University of Southern Denmark
• An Annotated "Little Mermaid" at surlalunefairytales.com site.
• Biographical information about Andersen from endicott-studio.com
• World of Tales page for Hans Christian Andersen, with links to texts of stories 

Emperor's New Clothoes

Arabian Tales

• "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp" from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang.
• "The Forty Thieves" by Andrew Lang and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" translated by Richard F. Burton

English Folk Tales

• Walt Disney Fables: Pied Piper video
• reading: "The Story of the Three Little Pigs" in .pdf format.
• "The Three Little Pigs" variations, from BGSU
• "Pied Piper of Hamlin" by Robert Browning with illustrations by Kate Greenaway
• Variations on "Pied Piper of Hameln"
• "Jack and the Beanstalk" variations, from Bowling Green State U

English Fairy Tales

• "Jack and the Beanstalk," as recorded by Andrew Lang
• "The Ratcatcher "by Andrew Lang from The Red Fairy Book (also known as The Pied Piper of Hamelin)
• "The Story of the Three Little Pigs"

Walt Disney and Children's Culture

• Disney and Fairy Tales. short essays about history of fairy tales and interpretation by Disney
• Disney's "Three Little Pigs" from Silly Symphony series (1933) YT 
• "Snow White" on Disney wikia
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarves: The Creation of Classics exhibit at the Walt Disney Family Museum.  Additional information on the Snow White exhibit
• The Walt Disney Story YouTube
• Little Mermaid "Kiss the Girl" with words
• Snow White. Scene where Snow White finds the dwarf house
• Snow White. Scene where Snow White cleans the house.
• Snow White "Whistle While You Work"
• Aladdin "Friend Like Me"
• Cinderella "Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo"

Fairy Tales as re-interpreted by American popular culture  

• Cinderonce, Cinderella told through Beyonce tunes as imagined by Toderick Hall.
• Similarly re-imagining Disney's Beauty and the Beast in the video "Beauty and the Beat"
• Fairy Tales as re-interpreted by fashion photographers for December 2013 Fashion magazine
• Drew Barrymore in Vogue 2005 recreating "Beauty and the Beast"
• "Fairy Tale Fashion" an exhibit at The Museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology. 2016.

"The Snow Queen" & other influences on Disney's Frozen

• "The Long Cold Story Behind Disney's 'Frozen' " by Stephanie Chase for contactmusic.com.  A detailed article about how Disney had been trying to bring "The Snow Queen" to film for nearly 70 years.
• "Adaptations and Loose Interpretations: Frozen vs. The Snow Queen" from Operation Awesome blog with info about Vicki L. Weavil's Crown of Ice.
• "Some Say Frozen Ripped Off a Japanese Anime: Here's Why" by Brian Ashcraft from the Kotaku website
• "Ice Cold Girl Power: The Snow Queen and Frozen" by Hannah Gomez on YALSA's The Hub website

Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith's The Stinky Cheeseman

Reading Rockets (WETA) interviews of: Jon Sciezka and  Lane Smith 

from The Stinky Cheeseman

Video Interview with Lane Smith and Molly Leach (2008) 5:08 min

Reading Rock Stars  of Reading by Mark Levis interviews Lane Smith and Molly Leach

• Part 2. Lane Smith's studios
• Part 3. Lane Smith's studios
• Part 4. Final segment on Lane Smith's studios
• Part 1: Beginning of road trip, ends with meeting Lane Smith

Jon Scieszka, with design by Molly Leach, in The Hornbook on "Design Matters" in Stinky Cheeseman and other books. (March/April 1998)

YouTube video of interview with Jon Scieszka from Barnes & Noble

Reading Rockets Guys Read with Jon Scieszka. YouTube

Great video of Stinky Cheeseman by John Gillam. good animation of images with nice voices. YouTube 4:52

Jon Scieszka reads The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. YouTube

Greek Mythology

Greek mythology for Kids

An introduction to Greek Mythology

Greek Myths & Greek Mythology

Greek mythology in art (many people without clothes)

Aesop's Fables

The Aesop for Children: With Pictures by Milo Winter

Mother Goose/Nursery Rhymes

The Only True Mother Goose Good Melodies by Unknown. free e-book,various formats.  Here is another online version that looks okay as well

The story of Boston's Mother Goose. 

A visit to Mother Goose's grave

Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Mark Twain in His Times:  Great site from Univ of Virginia.  Click through to comprehensive material about Tom Sawyer, with e-texts of material leading up to the novel, original reviews, illustrations, & info on Hannibal.Listen here to excerpts of actors who carefully recreate Clemmon's amazing storytelling style.

Mark Twain website by PBS and Ken Burns.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame lesson plan incorporating Mark Twain

Mark Twain at Play: an online exhibit from the Univ of California-Berkley's Mark Twain Papers library.  Check out what made him laugh, what he did to relax, and look at his original writings. 

"Mark Twain: Our original superstar" an essay in Time magazine by humor writer Roy Blount, Jr. (July 3, 2008)

Search quotations from Mark Twain: Twainquotes.com

Mark Twain's Mississippi: site emphasizing Twain's books about the river and his experiences on it.

This is Mark Twain, site created by University of California Press and the Bancroft Library. Feature 2 interactive timelines

sign in front of Becky's home in Hannibal, MOTwain's home in Hannibal, MO

L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of OzStill from The Pathwork Girl of Oz 1914 film

Patchwork Girl of Oz. 1914 film created by Baum.  YouTube video. 15 min. (Atomic Caravan blog post with stills and notes about the 1914 film)

1893 World's Columbian Exposition

• Photographs from Shepp's World's Fair Photographed, Chicago(www.bc.edu)
• The Columbian Exposition Image Gallery (lots of photos) and Interactive map.   General Information and links. Site created by University of Chicago
• Video simulation of 1893 World's Fair. cool.  Link to complete Simulations of World's Fair (videos & stills) created by UCLA class.

The Wizard of Oz: An American Fairytale, an online exhibit at the Library of Congress. Covers Baum's book in detail as well as stage and film adaptations.

Detailed fan website about The Wizard of Oz film and book, Answers to questions about the curious 'hanging scene' in the 1939 film

International Wizard of Oz club for fans, scholars, book collectors and more. Publishes Baum Bugle.

Literary Traveler article on L. Frank Baum

Film versions of Wizard of Oz

• Link to Warner Bros. 70th anniversary re-release of The Wizard of Oz film    
• "71 Facts about the film's 71st anniversary" from The Guardian (Aug 2010) 
• Tornado scene from 1939 film. YT 4:46 min
  
• The Wonders of Oz.  Documentary about the book and author on YouTube clip Episode 1  (good ideas but bad production values)
• Teach with Movies: sample study guide for The Wizard of Oz
• 1910 silent film version (with piano accompaniment).  YouTube 7 min.
• Stills, in film style, from 1903 production by Canton Comic Opera.  YT 2.46 min.
• Did Pink Floyd intend Dark Side of the Moon to coincide with 1939 Wizard of Oz? YT  2 min.
• Short Segment from the Muppets. Wizard of Oz and Ashanti singing theme song from Muppets' Oz

W.W. Denslow, Oz illustratorL. Frank Baum, author of Oz series 

Beatrix Potter & The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Beatrix Potter and Benjamin Bunny, on a lead.

Frederick Warne, official pubblisher of Beatrix Potter  Information on Potter, games, news, eating healthy.

Beatrix Potter's life in Cumbria.  Lots of info about her life there, many book suggestions, photographs, and info about the film Miss Potter

"The Tale of Miss Potter" Daily Telegraph article about the film Miss Potter and her life in England. (16 Dec. 2006)

Beatrix Potter, Fabulist.  Online exhibit from Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton.  Click on the images on top of the screen.

A biography of Potter from University of Pittsburgh site.

The Beatrix Potter Society website.

The National Trust's homes of Beatrix Potter and links to more information about her.