ENGL 240: Children's Literature: Readings

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• Introduction to Folk and Fairy Tales,    Martin Hallet and Barbara Karasek

• Little Red Riding Hood chapter from Folk and Fairy Tales

• Little Red Riding Hood - The Brothers Grimm    Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman 

• Little Red Riding Hood - Charles Perrault    Illustrated by Sarah Moon 

• The Fairy Tale Hero: The Image of Man in the Fairy Tale  - Max Luethi

• What Fairy Tales Tell Us - Alison Lurie  

• The Sturggle for Meaning - Bruno Bettelheim  

• Feminism and Fairy Tales - Karen Rowe  

• Disney Revisited or Jiminy Cricket, It's Musty Down Here! - Betsy Hearne  

• The End of Fairy Tales: How Shrek and Friends Have Changed Children's Stories - James Poniewozik