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Children’s Literature Introduction

Children’s Literature Introduction. Who are the children we are trying to convince to read today?. Harvey Daniels. What are you reading by choice? Recently Read Reading Want to Read. Reading Children’s Literature Critically Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor , Viking Press: NY 2011.

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Children’s Literature Introduction

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  1. Children’s Literature Introduction

  2. Who are the children we are trying to convince to read today?

  3. Harvey Daniels What are you reading by choice? Recently Read Reading Want to Read

  4. Reading Children’s Literature Critically Akata Witch by NnediOkorafor, Viking Press: NY 2011

  5. “critical analysis, the close reading of texts that brings our own and others’ perspectives and context to bear on them” • “by reading children’s literature critically, we can learn much about ourselves, our society, and indeed, our culture, past and present.” • “Each critical approach [i.e. feminist, historicist, reader response] offers a unique focus and its own set of questions.” • “ In reading children’s literature critically, we must seek to understand the child it imagines and constructs, as well as the adult who participates in this construction and benefits from it.”

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