Global Children’s Literature in the College Classroom

Sara Austin is assistant professor of English at Kentucky Wesleyan College.Tanja Nathanael is lecturer at San Jose State University where she teaches children’s literature and fantasy & science fiction.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Children’s Literature as Serious Reading, Sara Austin and Tanja NathanaelSection 1: Across the UniversityChapter One: Starting a Conversation on Integrating Filipino Children’s Literature in Teaching University Courses, Danilo M. Baylen and Johann Frederick A. CabbabChapter Two: Children’s Literature and Literary Analysis in the College Classroom: Evidence from Actual Classroom Practice in Turkey, Yasemin Yilmaz YüksekChapter Three: “And Stole Our Children”: Anti-Colonial Picturebook Discourses in the Critical Ethnic Studies Classroom, Sara AustinChapter Four: “Hurricane Hits England”: Teaching Caribbean Poetry for Younger Readers to Undergraduate Students in British Literature, Stephen DudasSection II: Borders and CrossingsChapter Five: Arbitrary Boundaries: Mapping Pausewang’s Traitor with Undergraduates Studying Children’s Literature, Tanja NathanaelChapter Six: International Texts on the Border: Broadening Worlds, Inspiring Reading, Audrey Isabel TaylorCh

Children's Literature scholars have always known the secret: children's literature is a cultural artifact. But that children's literature is valuable across the curriculum is still not widely held to be true. This collection offers concrete ways to integrate children's literature across the curriculum, showcasing the value of children's literature in the college classroom and giving due respect to the authors and illustrators from around the world who create smart, artful children’s literature.