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Execution of poetic justice
common characteristic of folk lit (ex: virtue is rewarded, vice is punished)
Ms. Harris
stern, aloof African-American teacher who keeps her personal and professional life separate, challenges Gilly; "I mean your name Galadriel. It is the name of a great queen in a book by a man named Tolkien"
Agnes Stokes
little red headed girl at school who bothers Gilly and always is up to something; "Wanna come over? My grandma won't care"
Chadwell
Gilly's dead uncle; she sleeps in his room when she goes to live with her grandmother
Trotter
obese, jolly, experienced foster mother of WE and Gilly for a time; "No baby you got to go. Lord forgive me for making it harder on you"
Gilly
troubled, wild, oppositional foster child who really just wants to be loved; "I lie a lot"
The Runaway Bunny
Margaret Wise Brown; mother goes to the ends of the earth to love her child
But Not the Hippopotamus
Sandra Boynton; cardboard book with repetition for littles
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
Simms Taback; emphasizes recycling, creativity, and reinvention; main character keeps making his article of clothing into something else (smaller) when it gets old and tarnished
Abuela
"in this way my love and good wishes will be in the blanket forever"
Jan Brett
intricate borders; European and North American folk stories
trickster tales
a type of folk tale that features an animal or human character who typically engages in deceit, violence, and magic
Granting wishes and long sleeps
common characteristic of folk lit (ex: snow white, sleeping beauty, etc.)
Mrs. Ellis
social worker, cares about first impressions and appearances; "get rid of that bubblegum before we get there"
Mr. Randolph
blind, kind, African-American neighbor of Trotter, loves poetry; "I'm helpless before your cherry pies, Mrs. Trotter"
Courtney
Gilly's mother who is selfish and vain, idealized by Gilly throughout the book; "I told you on the phone that I'd come for Christmas and see for myself how the kid was doing"
William Earnest
trotter's timid foster child who struggles to read and who Gilly eventually takes under her wing and teaches to fight; "Come on, Gilly... Pow! Pow!"
Nonnie
Gilly's grandma who takes her away from Trotter and tries to take care of and connect with Gilly; "she seems to think I got a rather wrong impression of that foster home"
Swimmy
Leo Leonni; story about the value of teamwork (school of fish working together to scare predator) and uniqueness (Swimmy being the 'eye')
Rrralph
Lois Ehlert; plays with shape and color, includes wordplay (my dog can talk. When he sees a tree he says 'bark')
Junk Day on Juniper Street
older book that emphasizes community and recycling while inadvertently displaying tradition gender roles
Hard-Hat Jobs
jobs in the real world; gender roles were pretty prevalent (men have hard jobs with hard hats...)
It's a Book
Lane Smith; emphasizes the benefits and perks of books as opposed to the common modes of entertainment in a digital world; "it's a book jackass!"
When Sophie Gets Really, Really Angry
Molly Bang; colors and graphic styles used to emphasize emotions
Martin's Big Words
Doreen Rappaport; cover emphasizes MLK picture (words/title on the back with MLK's huge picture on front)
Rosie's Walk
Pat Hutchins; example of picture story book showing that pictures can add to (or even change) the story; you need both the text and the illustrations to carry the story
Doctor DeSoto
William Steig; rat dentist and wife who are sneaky and smart enough to outsmart a fox; thick ink lines, never fully fills a page, looks almost like watercolor
Adrian Simcox Does Not Have a Horse
Marcy Campbell; creative use of negative space; emphasis on the value of imagination
Chrysanthemum
Kevin Henkes; mouse who loves her name until she gets bullied and then regains confidence after the music teacher sticks up for her
'I Can't' Said the Ant
Polly Cameron; pattern book with rhyming; reinforcement of words with pictures; for beginner readers
Tikki Tikki Tembo
Arlene Mosel; repetition which helps with sight words and memory for developing readers
Lily's Purple Plastic Purse
Kevin Henkes; talks about Lily's fun teacher who she then views as crabby and mean after he takes away her purse
Caldecott Medal
awarded to artist of most distinguished American picture book for children; started in 1938
Newbery Medal
awarded to author of most distinguished children's book; started in 1922
Pura Belpre Award
Recognition presented to a Latino or Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays the Latino cultural experience in a work of literature for children or youth
importance of early reading
shapes worldview; forms unconscious attitudes towards reading and books; associating books with togetherness; scaffolding multiple paths to reading; building hard skills and soft skills; ENCOURAGE INTERACTION
serious business of children's books
imprinting (shaping worldview and teaching in ways that can't be easily undone) and the didactic nature of lit (teaches lessons, morals, etc.); teaches vocab, lengthens attention span, builds imagination, etc.
Katherine Patterson
Author of Gilly Hopkins, fairly bitter and unhappy
1978
Gilly Hopkins Publication date; post-civil rights movement which influences writing
Esperanza Rising
Pam Munoz Ryan; 2000; set in the 1920s the 1930s; given the Pura Belpre award
Sixto Ortega
Esperanza's father; "the land is alive, Esperanza"
Miguel
"my father and I have lost faith in our country. We were born servants and will always be servants"
Tio Luis
"I've come to give you another chance... proposal... rebuilding"
Ramona Ortega
Esperanza's mother; "Our papers were lost in the fire"; "It's alright, Esperanza, because now we are peasants, too"
Esperanza
"Father would never approve of us riding in this car... it's dirty..."
Marta
"So you're a princess who's come to be a peasant"; "they don't want us banding together for higher wages or better housing"
Repetition book
Tikki Tikki Tembo
Rhyme
One Fish Two Fish
Chain of Events
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Exploring Figures of Speech
The King Who Rained
Picture-story books
started at beginning of 20th century (Peter Rabit - Beatrix Potter); words and pictures work together to carry story
Illustrated books
story can be carried with words alone but words are added to break up text and add appeal (ex: Little Women)
Molly Bang
When Sophie Gets Angry; uses colors and shapes to help tell the story
Mary Azarian
Woodcuts; focus on rural Vermont themes
Eric Carle
colorful shapes, usually animals; collage and paper cutouts; more abtract
Barbara Cooney
New England themes; gentle but realistic stories (look for carriages, caps, purple flowers)
Lois Ehlert
books especially for the very young (Chicka Chicka Boom Boom); collage; big blocks of color; using real things (Leaf Man) to create pictures; big font
Paul Goble
Native American themes; Plaines Indians, paper doll looking art; white outlines
Kevin Henkes
family and school stories; little mice with big emotions; cartoon style
Trina Schart Hyman
lavish illustrations of classic fairytales; elegant borders; illuminated manuscript; illustrations take up lots of page; fairytale themes!
Steven Kellogg
cartoony style, including many tall tales; folktales, always funny
Leo Leonni
collage style; GOOGLY EYES; simplistic; lots of animals
Arnold Lobel
Frog and Toad; rustic animals in Victorian apparel
Brian Pinkey
scratchboard; often biographies of African American people; colorful; hatching for shading
Jerry Pickney
soft muted watercolors; folktales and sometimes AA themes; colorful
Patricia Polacco
family stories; grandmothers and old people with WRINKLES; exploring progressive topics; Russian and Ukranian dress and themes
Beatrix Potter
mother of modern picture-story book; tiny format of books; realistic animals wearing modest old-fashioned clothing; soft and fantastical style
Allen Say
Asian American themes; realism and white-wash color; Japanese; simple and modest (stillness)
Chris Soentpiet
'glowy' style, often Asian American themes but not always; romanticism; use of lighting
William Steig
cartoon-style animal story; watercolor filling with thick ink (out)lines; bold patterns on clothing
Chris Van Allsburg
charcoal-illustrated fantasy; black and white; kind of weird/creepy; fairly realistic
David Wiesner
strange books; lots of random and weird pictures; animals flying
Paul Zelinsky
classically illustrated fairy tales; realistic; renaissance
usage of 'foreshadowing' images
Jan brett in borders
choice of color
When Sophie Gets Really Mad - Molly Bang
choice of artistic medium
Stranded at Plymouth Plantation - woodcuts help feel the roughness of life back then
Framing of the pictures/variation in framing
Casey at the Bat by Christopher Bing - uses newspaper clippings to portray time period
pourqoui style
folk lit type; explaining something in nature
noodlehead tales
humorous tale in which the character makes the reader feel superior
fable
A brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters
legend
a narrative handed down from the past, containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements (robin hood)
classic fairytale
ex: snow white
tall tale
an outrageously exaggerated, humorous story that is obviously unbelievable (paul bunyon)
myth
A traditional story about gods, ancestors, or heroes, told to explain the natural world or the customs and beliefs of a society.
beast tale
featuring some scary character (animal) that poses a threat to main characters
wisdom stories
bit of wisdom told to audience and characters at the end
Simplistic Characterizations
common characteristic of folk lit (ex: the totally evil step-mother)
Vague setting
common characteristic of folk lit (ex: 'once upon a time')
Magical forces/magical objects
common characteristic of folk lit (ex: fairy godmother)
talking animals
common characteristic of folk lit (ex: Nyoka)
The underdog comes out on top
common characteristic of folk lit (ex: cinderella marrying the prince)
the number 3
common characteristic of folk lit (ex: the three little pigs)
Transformation
common characteristic of folk lit (ex: Cinderella's pumpkin; disguises, trickery)
Refrains and chants
common characteristic of folk lit (ex: 'fee fie fo fum')
Some kind of quest or challenge for main character
common characteristic of folk lit (ex: aladdin, little red riding hood, etc.)
no particular author/multiple versions/generally has oral origins
common characteristic of folk lit (ex: stories gathered by Grimms brothers, Hans Christian Anderson, etc.)
originally not just for children
common characteristic of folk lit (ex: told orally to the family around the fire or things like that)
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Wrote "Little House" books about her life on the prairie- lightly fictionalized memoir; has become controversial very recently since some have claimed that her books glorify traditional family structures and gender roles (although the critical argument is not very strong)
Ways Children read Children's literature
like a scientist (experimenting with what they like/what works and what doesn't)
How academics read Children's literature
like an analyst (ex: 'what do the subtle things in this book mean about culture and bias', 'what are the lessons in this book', 'what demographic does this book appeal to', 'what choices did the author make and why', etc.)