2. Children’s Literature (H-810F) Instructor Lolly Robinson (Charlotte Robinson) Lolly_robinson@gse.harvard.edu Larsen 613 Teaching Fellow Chris Buttimer cjb636@mail.harvard.edu

3. Children’s Literature (H-810F) Thursdays February 27–April 10 5:00–8:00 p.m. Gutman 305?

4. Children’s Literature (H-810F)  Children’s trade books for Kindergarten through 5 th Grade  Evaluate books  Find books  Learn about book creators  Use books

5. Lolly’s background  Education: degrees in studio art and children’s lit  Worked in publishing since 1985  Freelance writing, reviewing, research, graphic design, illustration  Horn Book Magazine, Horn Book Guide  Taught at Lesley University  Book award committees; speak on new books, history of children’s literature, Beatrix Potter  Curate exhibits at Eric Carle Museum  Two blogs at Horn Book: Calling Caldecott and Lolly’s Classroom

6. Chris’s background Current Ed.D. student (CCE) Research focus: critical pedagogy, ethnic studies, and youth participatory action research (YPAR) M.Ed.(L&L) from HGSE ('10); M.Ed. (teacher prep) UMass-Boston ('06) Taught middle-school ELA in the Cambridge Public Schools for 6 years Worked mostly in BPS the past 3-4 years PD work around adolescent literacy Blogger for "Lolly's Classroom"

7. Reading assignments  Required reading each week Trade books An article or other resource  Availability On 2-hour reserve at Gutman In JCRL (Jeanne Chall Reading Lab) At bookstores (Coop, Amazon, etc.) Most available in libraries

8. Children’s Literature (H-810F) GUEST SPEAKER ?

9. Assignments and grading  Annotated bibliography (40%)  Picture Book paper (20%)  Group project (20%)  Attendance and participation (20%)

10. Personal Information Survey  We want to know who you are  Helps us create diverse book discussion groups  Questions about  Your reading habits now and as a child  Your career goals  How you might use books with children  Your proposed bibliography topic

11. Personal Information Survey  We want to know who you are  Helps us create diverse book discussion groups  Questions about  Your reading habits now and as a child  Your career goals  How you might use books with children  Your proposed bibliography topic

12. Annotated bibliography  Picture books and/or chapter books in a range of reading levels  Introductory paragraph  20 books with short annotations  Bibliography shared with class on website  Exemplar available on website

13. Annotated bibliography Some topics that have worked well in the past: Immigration to the US Food and eating Baseball (or other sport) Music (or other art) New siblings Quilts The ocean

14. Picture book paper  Three pages  Analyze and evaluate a picture book  Exemplar available on class website

15. Group project Two options  Sign up for a topic that explores a current issue in children’s literature  Create a literature-based mini curriculum unit

16. Group project  Groups of three to five students  Delivery of information Create a HGSE wiki page Show your page to the class

17. Group project Examples of existing topics  Using wordless picture books  Mischief makers  Who should tell the stories? (race and culture issues)  Gender issues  Poetry

18. Class and online discussions (20%)  Book discussion on Horn Book blog “Lolly’s Classroom” will debut February 10 Lolly will create a post for each book we are reading Write a comment for one of the posts by 5 p.m. Wednesday Opportunity to bring up additional topics

19. Book discussion during class  In- class discussion  Groups of 5–8 students  About 45 minutes, usually in second half of class  Mostly self-moderated but instructors will drop in

20. Assignment for first class  Complete Personal Information Survey (including bibliography topic idea)  Read two picture books (on reserve, in JCRL, at Coop)

21. Course website http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k100152

22. Horn Book  Receives 4000+ new books/year  Horn Book Magazine 6 times a year (bimonthly) articles about children’s books in-depth reviews of top 10%  Horn Book Guide 2 times a year Short reviews of all trade books Rated 1 to 6 Print (6 months of books) and online (25+ years)

23. Horn Book  Newsletters Notes from the Horn Book Nonfiction Notes Talks with Roger  Blogs Read Roger (Editor in Chief’s blog) Calling Caldecott (mock book award blog) Out of the Box (app and movie reviews, miscellany) Lolly’s Classroom (trade books and teachers)  Websites www.hbook.com www.hornbookguide.com

24. Horn Book office

25. Horn Book: incoming books

26. Horn Book Guide: books from one 6-month publishing season

27. Horn Book editors (editing review section)

28. Horn Book covers David Wiesner 2002

29. Horn Book covers Maurice Sendak 2003

30. Horn Book covers Maira Kalman 2004

31. Horn Book covers Lois Ehlert 2007

32. Horn Book covers Lane Smith 2009

33. Horn Book covers Brian Selznick 2010

34. Horn Book covers Jerry Pinkney 2010

35. Horn Book covers Tomie de Paola 2011

36. Horn Book covers Salley Mavor 2012

37. Horn Book covers Jeannie Baker 2013

38. Horn Book covers Paul O. Zelinsky 2013

39. Horn Book covers Laura Vaccaro Seeger 2013

40. Questions?