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Week 1: No classes
Week 2: 'Little Red Riding Hood', in Tatar, ed, Classic Fairy Tales, pp.3-24.
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Week 3: Sarah Fielding, The Governess (1749).
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Week 4: Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1789, 1794).
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Week 5: Captain Marryat, The Children of the New Forest (1847).
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Week 6: Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1857).
Week 7: Reading Week
Week 8: Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865).
Week 9: Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (1868).
Week 10: Writing Essays
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Week 11: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).
Week 12: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island (1883).
Week 1: J.M. Barrie, Peter and Wendy (1911).
Week 2: C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950).
Week 3: Michelle Magorian, Goodnight Mister Tom (1981).
Week 4: Philip Pullman, Northern Lights (1998).
Week 5: BBC Children’s Television
Lecture Handout; Seminar Handout: Please buy and view the following two DVDs: Welcome to Lazy Town and Shoebox Zoo Series 1. In addition, please watch some BBC children's television on the following channels: CBeebies, CBBC, BBC1 (3.05pm - 5.15pm weekdays) or BBC2 (6am -11am weekdays).
Week 6: Jamila Gavin, Coram Boy (2000).
Week 7: Malorie Blackman, Noughts and Crosses (2001).
Week 8: Melvin Burgess, Doing It (2003).
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