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The schedule for my junior seminar "Modernism and Childhood" is below. Comments welcome. * * * Modernism and Childhood This ...

Let's talk about children. I don't trust them. They are just biding their time until we're gone, and then they get our stuff. ...

I'll be lecturing on Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass (1995) in Katharine Wright's children's lit course tomorrow (Wedne...

I've been meaning to put it out there that I've been doing some reading around in animal studies recently. I feel very ambivalent ab...

Oh boy. ( So to speak. ) Fall semester is in full swing, and and I'm having to put Gertrude Stein and Susy Clemens on hold for a while i...

Aaron's recent post on the American "bad boy" in Avatar made me think in general about children's narratives that constr...

I subscribe to Debbie Reese 's RSS feed because she puts books on my radar that usually wouldn't otherwise get there. Her blog on th...

"Ilse and I had a fight yesterday about which we'd rather be Joan of Arc or Frances Willard . We didn't begin it as a fight but...

I haven't yet had time to blog about some children's fiction that I read in the past year. The novels usually went up on the sidebar...

Austin Grossman has a very interesting review of Maze of Bones . It’s a story about people born into the most privileged family in the wor...

Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, some Soup, and a Spool of Thread , 2003.      In case you we...

Guardian : JK Rowling gives Labour £1m donation. Brown said: "I am delighted that JK Rowling, who is one of the world's greatest ev...

I recently read Shirley Hazzard's The Great Fire , which I very much enjoyed. It's a novel about love, and sincerity, and partly abo...

Recently Hillary showed me this video of Feist singing “1, 2, 3, 4” for Sesame Street . I found the video very funny, and particularly enjoy...

As I've mentioned before , teaching A Room of One's Own forced me to face up to the overwhelming prevalence of the girl-in-drag-has...

Regarding historical fiction again -- Anne Scott MacLeod, whom I have long known to be awesome, notes in general how children's histori...

I recently read a trio of children's novels set in the Elizabethan period, concerning a boy (orphan, naturally!) who joins Shakespeare...

One more google search string: "the study guide to the book perilous gard." Somebody is not only bad at reading, but also bad at g...

Every once in a blue moon, some morbid curiosity impels me to check my Sitemeter in order to peer at the Google search strings. My friends, ...

I recently read two works of fiction marketed toward girls, Jennifer L. Holm’s Boston Jane: An Adventure and Gail Carson Levine’s The Two P...