Additional Research Sources
Through the Looking Glass: How Children’s Books Have Grown Up
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- From NPREd: Read the original article and listen to the interview (opens in a new window)
- Tools of the Trade (opens in a new window)
- Some Thoughts Concerning Education (opens in a new window)
- Orbis Pictus (opens in a new window)
- New England Primer (opens in a new window)
- Margery Meanwell (opens in a new window)
- The New England Primer, from 1803 (opens in a new window)
- Alice (opens in a new window)
- John Tenniel – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland/Wikipedia Commons (opens in a new window)
- The Story of Mankind (opens in a new window)
- The Life article (opens in a new window)
- An illustration of the shift from manpower to machine power in The Story of Mankind (opens in a new window)
- Books That Reflect the Diversity of the Current Student Population (opens in a new window)
Background: Children’s Historical and Contemporary Fiction
- Robert Louis Stevenson (opens in a new window)
- Arthur Conan Doyle (opens in a new window)
- Laura Ingalls Wilder (opens in a new window)
- Sir Walter Scott (opens in a new window)
- Alessandro Manzoni (opens in a new window)
- The Odyssey (opens in a new window)
- Laura Ingalls Wilder (opens in a new window)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (opens in a new window)
- Julius Lester (opens in a new window)
- King Arthur (opens in a new window)
- Robin Hood (opens in a new window)
- United States (opens in a new window)
- Jane Yolen (opens in a new window)
- Eve Bunting (opens in a new window)
- Rudyard Kipling (opens in a new window)
- Julius Lester (opens in a new window)
- Sir Walter Scott (opens in a new window)
- Jane Yolen (opens in a new window)
What is Literary Criticism?
- Literary Criticism Little Red Riding Hood (opens in a new window)
- Texts and intertextuality (opens in a new window)
- Rhetoric (opens in a new window)
Schools of Literary Criticism include
- Critical Disability Studies (opens in a new window)
- Feminist Criticism (opens in a new window)
- LGBTQ + Criticism (opens in a new window)
- Marxist Criticism (opens in a new window)
- New Historicist Criticism (opens in a new window)
- Post-Colonial Criticism (opens in a new window)
- Post-Structuralist, Deconstructive Criticism (opens in a new window)
- Psychological Criticism (opens in a new window)
- Reader-Response Criticism (opens in a new window)
- Russian Formalism and New Criticism (opens in a new window)
- Structuralist Criticism (opens in a new window)
General Strategies for Engaging in Literary Criticism
- Rhetorical Analysis (opens in a new window)
- Critical Disability Studies (opens in a new window)
- Feminist Criticism (opens in a new window)
- Disciplinary Community (opens in a new window)
A Psychological Criticism of Snow White
- How Snow White’s Cruel Stepmother Helps Us Cope with Evil (opens in a new window)
More Resources
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- Lion and Unicorn Journal (opens in a new window)
- Children’s Literature Association (opens in a new window)
- Free Children’s Books (opens in a new window)
