Wednesday, September 02, 2015

Reading, Writing and Illustrating Children's Literature

A Sense of Wonder
Reading, Writing and Illustrating Children's Literature

University of Otago Centre for the Book

Thursday 12 November Dunningham Suite, Dunedin Public Libraries
19:00–21:00
Ms. Julia Marshall
TBC
(followed by informal reception)
Friday 13 November, Tower Block Lecture Theatre, University of Otago College of Education
Lecture Room open from 8:00 for registration, setting up presentations, or just socialising
9:00-9:15
Trish Brooking, University of Otago
Welcome and Introduction
Children's Literature and Trauma  Chair: Trish Brooking
9:15–9:35
Cecily Fisher
Shock Absorbers in Transit: The unique potential of fiction picture books to help young children cope with traumatic circumstances
9:35-9:55
Sarah Mokrzycki
Foster Care and the Representation of Trauma in Children's Literature
9:55–10:15
Raymond Huber
The Universe Is Made of Stories: Narrative Non-Fiction
10:15–10:30
Discussion
10:30–11:10
Morning Coffee



Fantasy in Children's Literature  Chair: Donald kerr
11:10–11:30
Paul Tankard
The Fantastic Turn: Or, how two old-fashioned Oxford Dons are shaping 21st-century Children’s Fiction
11:30–11:50
Hannah Parry
“Child of the Kindly West”: A children's book hero in Tolkien's Middle-Earth
11:50-12:10
David Elliot
The Agony of Hunting the Snark
12:10–12:30
Elizabeth Hale
“Jabberwocky” and the Interpretive Power of Illustration
12:30–12:50
Discussion
12:50–1:30
Lunch
Children's Literature in the Modern World  Chair: Julia Marshall
1:30–1:50
Nicola Daly
The New Zealand PictureBook Collection: Transmitting children’s literature titles through children’s literature collections
1:50–2:10
Anne Goulding
I Want to Tell You a Digital Story
2:10-2:30
Sarah-Jane Robertson
The Hungry Caterpillar Becomes a Butterfly: Exploring the role of book genre in children’s language and literacy development
2:30–2:50
Sally-Ann Spencer
Translating Children’s Books With AmazonCrossing
2:50–3:10
Discussion
3:10–3:40
Afternoon Tea
Children's Literature in History  Chair: Shef Rogers
3:40–4:00
Geoff Kelly
The Evolution of the Chapbook: From secular amusement to evangelical literature
4:00–4:20
Mary Skarott
Special Prize for Gardening: School and Sunday School Prizes in New Zealand during World War I—Examples from the Dorothy Neal White Collection
4:20–4:40
Kay Hancock
Exploring Didacticism in the 1963 Ready to Read Instructional Reading Series
4:40–5:00
Elaine Webster
Why is goodness blonde?
5:00–5:20
Discussion
5:20–5:30
Phillippa Duffy and  Bronwyn Wylie-Gibb from University Book Shop
Closing remarks
   Adjourn to the University Staff Club for a 'vin d'honneur' and further conviviality

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