What You Will Learn!
- Understand changing thinking in writing for children
- Refine critical reading skills
- Improve language skills
- Open up your imagination
- Learn about how history impacted children's literature
- Identify how children's literature both impacted and was impacted by social change
- Find out about the lives and times of several well known children's writers
- You will be invited to join the monthly Zoom Book Club exclusively for my literature students
Description
Do you want to walk through a wardrobe or jump down a rabbit hole?
Maybe you loved to read as a child and now as an adult you would like to find out a bit more and look more critically at the texts and authors that fired your young imagination. In doing so you will refine your critical reading skills, increase your language skills and learn about the progression of thinking in writing for children and how it is related to changing attitudes in society, as well as impacting social attitudes.
My name is Eve Williams and I hold a degree in English Literature and a Master's in Old English Literature from the Russell Group Queen's University of Belfast as well as lecturing in Belfast's C.S. Lewis Festival. Following the success of my English Literarure and World Literature courses, students asked for a specific course on Children's Literature and I was thrilled to rediscover the magic of
Nursery rhymes
Fairytales
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Beatrix Potter
The Anne Books by L.M. Montgomery
The Little Women Books by Louisa May Alcott
Enid Blyton
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
Roald Dahl
The Harry Potter Books
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
The course also comes with an inviation to the monthly Zoom Book Club where you can talk about literature with your fellow students.
If you would like to join me on this magical journey, you can do so risk free due to Udemy's 30 day money back guarantee. I'm looking forward to joining you!
Who Should Attend!
- People who loved to read as a child
- Literature students who want to understand the progression of literature for children
- Those with an interest in the changing ideas of society
- Anybody who wants to walk through a wardrobe or jump down a rabbit hole
