Once upon a cause: producing picture books for local children

PWR 2EE - Spring 2015 - Instructor: Ellis, E.

Last Updated: 21-Apr-2015

Research Skills

A guide to resources for PWR 2EE: Once Upon a Cause: Producing Picture Books for Local Children. Course topics include: visual rhetoric and the rhetoric of fiction; purpose and audience of picture books, the ways they represent (or don't represent) people of color, the significance of gender, and the future of the genre.

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Background

Use these sources to help you pick a topic and to provide context to your research based argument.

Handbook of research on children's and young adult literature / edited by Shelby A. Wolf ... [et al.].

New York : Routledge, 2011.

Education Library (Cubberley) » Reference (non-circulating) » PS121 .H22 2011

"Distinguished by its multidisciplinary approach, it describes and analyzes the different aspects of literary reading, texts, and contexts to illuminate how the book is transformed within and across different academic figurations of reading and interpreting children's literature."

The pleasures of children's literature / Perry Nodelman, Mavis Reimer.

3rd ed. Boston : Allyn and Bacon, c2003.

Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » Z1037 .A1 N63 2003

Provides an overview of children’s literature. The book offers relevant sections on book picture books as well as current issues within children’s books including race and sexual orientation.

Across cultures : a guide to multicultural literature for children / Kathy East and Rebecca L. Thomas.

Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, 2007.

Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » Z1037 .E19 2007

A multicultural resource guide arranged thematically including but not limited to Identity and Self-Image, Family and Friends, Traditions, Exploring the Past in Diverse Communities, bullies and bullying. The focus is on books with multicultural themes or diverse experiences.

Words about pictures : the narrative art of children's picture books / Perry Nodelman.

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1988.

Green Library » Stacks » Z1033 .P52 N63 1988

Examines the ways pictures communicate information. It examines baby books, alphabet books and then moves on to well-known children’s authors such as Maurice Sendak.

Developing children's critical thinking through picturebooks : a guide for primary and early years students and teachers / Mary Roche.

Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1590.3 .R636 2015

"This book...is meant to serve as a guide to those who wish to introduce children to good literature, big ideas, critical engagement, and the notion of making meaning through thinking and discussion."

Inside picture books / Ellen Handler Spitz.

New Haven : Yale University Press, c1999.

Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » BF456 .R2 S685 1999

Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education / Editor, James A. Banks, University of Washington.

Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications, Inc., 2012.

Education Library (Cubberley) » Reference (non-circulating) » LC1099 .E38 2012 V.1

"The major aim of this encyclopedia is to describe the most important concepts, theories, research, policies, case studies, and programs at the pre-school through the postsecondary levels and their implications for educational reform. Diversity is defined broadly in this encyclopedia and includes race, ethnicity, social class, gender, sexual orientation (LGBT), religion, language, and exceptionality, which encompasses giftedness and disability." p. xlviii