2. Children’s Literature (H-810F) Instructor Lolly Robinson (Charlotte Robinson) Lolly_robinson@gse.harvard.edu Larsen 613 Teaching Fellow Maleka Donaldson Gramling mid807@mail.harvard.edu Discussion Facilitator Lauren Adams lauren_adams@mail.harvard.edu

3. Children’s Literature (H-810F) Thursdays February 26–April 9 5:00–8:00 p.m. Gutman 303

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  Works at Horn Book Inc. (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. Maleka’s background  B.A. in Biology (from Harvard College)  Ed.M. in Human Development and Psychology; Ed.M. in Learning and Teaching (both from HGSE)  Fourth-year doctoral student in Human Development and Education  Research focus: making mistakes in Kindergarten classrooms  Virginia licensure, Elementary Education (PreK–6)  Five years as early childhood educator (mostly Kindergarten)  Past Teaching Fellow for numerous HGSE courses across variety of fields  Alum of the Children's Lit and Adolescent Lit courses  Parent of 5-year-old Kindergartener

7. Lauren’s background  B.A. in Russian Language and Political Science  M.A. in Children’s Literature  Massachusetts licensure in ELL (5-12) and ELA (8-12)  Have taught high school ELL and English since 2007 Previously taught at Simmons and Lesley  Worked in publishing for 12 years  Contributor to The Horn Book Magazine  Book award committees  Parent of two teenagers (!)

8. Children’s Literature (H-810F) GUEST SPEAKER : Sarah S. Brannen

9. 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

10. Assignments and grading  Annotated bibliography (50%)  Picture Book paper (30%)  Mock book awards (ungraded)  Attendance and participation (20%)

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. 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

13. Annotated bibliography  Picture books and/or chapter books in a range of reading levels  Introductory paragraph  15 books with short annotations  Bibliography shared with class on website  Exemplar available on website

14. 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

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

16. Class and online discussions  Book discussion on Horn Book blog “Lolly’s Classroom” about using books in educational settings (school, home, museum, etc.) 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

17. 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

18. Mock Book Awards  Form committees  Read books in JCRL  Last class  Present your book to committee  Discuss  Vote

19. Mock book award sessions—last class  Form committees early in module  Lolly pre-selects nominated books  Each student chooses a book to present to your committee  Committees will meet during class on April 9

20. Mock book award sessions—last class  Form committees early in module  Lolly pre-selects nominated books  Each student chooses a book to present to your committee  Committees will meet during class on April 9

21. Mock book award sessions—last class  Committees will meet during class on April 9  Present books (30 minutes)  Discuss books (40 minutes)  Vote (20 minutes)  Eat snacks (throughout)  Present your winners to the class  Blog about experience and winners

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

23. Course website http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k106599

24. 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)

25. Horn Book  Newsletters Notes from the Horn Book Nonfiction Notes Horn Book Herald 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

26. Horn Book office

27. Horn Book: incoming books

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

29. Horn Book editors (editing review section)

30. Horn Book covers David Wiesner 2002

31. Horn Book covers Maurice Sendak 2003

32. Horn Book covers Maira Kalman 2004

33. Horn Book covers Lois Ehlert 2007

34. Horn Book covers Lane Smith 2009

35. Horn Book covers Jerry Pinkney 2010

36. Horn Book covers Tomie de Paola 2011

37. Horn Book covers Salley Mavor 2012

38. Horn Book covers Jeannie Baker 2013

39. Horn Book covers Paul O. Zelinsky 2013

40. Horn Book covers Brian Floca 2014

41. Horn Book covers Peter Brown 2015

42. Questions?