Innocence & experience : essays & conversations on children's literature /

Innocence & experience : essays & conversations on children's literature / compiled and edited by Barbara Harrison and Gregory Maguire from programs presented at Simmons College Center for the Study of Children's Literature.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Simmons College (Boston, Mass.). Center for the Study of Children's Literature.
Other Authors: Harrison, Barbara, 1936-, Maguire, Gregory.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, [1987]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Children's literature > History and criticism.
Children > Books and reading.
Fantasy.
Realism.
Poetry.
Myth.
Novelists.
Poets.
Illustrators.
Critics.
Librarians.
Creative ability.
Educators.
Children.
Family members.
Simmons University authors. Maguire, Gregory.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Rememory
  • Introduction / Gregory Maguire
  • Ah, sweet rememory! / Virginia Hamilton
  • Bones in the sand / Penelope Lively
  • Sounds in the heart / Katherine Paterson
  • A writer's journey / Eleanor Cameron
  • On imagination / Joan Aiken
  • Travel notes / Lloyd Alexander
  • Through the dark wood / Nina Bawden
  • Nahum Tarune's book / Susan Cooper
  • Part II. Mythic patterns
  • Introduction / Paul Heins
  • The burden of the past / Peter Dickinson
  • The universe and old MacDonald / Betty Levin
  • Achilles in Altjira / Alan Garner
  • Mythic journeys / Paul Heins
  • The life journey / John Rowe Townsend
  • Fantasy and the classic hero / Natalie Babbitt
  • Disturbing the universe / Jill Paton Walsh
  • Part III. Fantasy: the perilous realm
  • Introduction / Betty Levin
  • "A hair's breadth aside" / Jane Langton
  • The purposes of fantasy / Natalie Babbitt
  • Another world? a sampling of remarks on science fiction and fantasy: World building / Laurence Yep, The story of the Golem / Jan Mark, Traveling the road to Ithaca / Jane Yolen, Alternate worlds / Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • The face of a spider / H.M. Hoover
  • The perilous realms: a colloquy / Betty Levin, ed.
  • Part IV. Realism: more perilous realms
  • Introduction / Gregory Maguire
  • Do I dare disturb the universe? / Madeleine L'Engle
  • Where is Terabithia / Katherine Paterson
  • "A rattlin' good story" / Robert Cormier
  • The third eye / Mollie Hunter
  • One human heart / Paula Fox, Cathie Mercier
  • On censorship / Alice Childress
  • Only a lamp-holder: on writing historical fiction / Katherine Paterson, Ann Schlee, Jill Paton Walsh, Erik Christian Haugaard
  • "Howl like wolves" / Barbara Harrison
  • Truth, the child, and literature / Erik Christian Haugaard
  • Part V. Motion and rest: the art of illustration
  • Introduction / Ethel Heins
  • Early friendships / Dorothy Butler
  • Picture books as literature / Sonia Landes
  • How I found The treasure / Uri Shulevitz
  • Bothering to look / Robert McCloskey, Ethel Heins
  • A strange balance of joy and pain / Tom Feelings
  • Me and Blake, Blake and me / Ellen Raskin
  • The lotus blossom--or whodunit? / Marcia Brown
  • Enamored of the mystery / Maurice Sendak
  • With a jeweler's eye: on creating picture books / Charles Mikolaycak, Eve Rice, Rosemary Wells
  • From our correspondent in Utopia / Fritz Eichenberg
  • Part VI. The primacy of poetry
  • Introduction / Barbara Harrison
  • Bilingual children / Norma Farber
  • A Mother Goose portfolio: little King Pippin / Arnold Lobel, Tom Tom the piper's son / Marcia Sewall, Bobby Shaftoe / Ashley Bryan, Robin and Bobbin / David Macaulay, Simple Simon and the pieman / Uri Shulevitz, Little Miss Muffet / Erik Blegvad, Two lovers / Marcia Brown, Peter Peter Pumpking Eater / Chris Van Allsburg, Nothin-at-all / Blair Lent, Saint Dunstan and the devil / Fritz Eichenberg, Doctor Fell / Trina Schart Hyman, Old Mother Hubbard and her dog / Nancy Elkholm Burkert
  • "Sing together children" / Ashley Bryan
  • The dream voyage / Gregory Maguire
  • The watcher / Nancy Willard
  • The oral tradition: alive, alive-oh / John Langstaff
  • Part VII. A myriad eyes
  • Introduction / Barbara Harrison
  • A myriad eyes: the many perspectives: On being a parent / Frances V. Sedney, On writing poetry / David McCord, On being published / Ouida Sebestyen, On telling stories / Eileen Colwell, On teaching / Joan M. Tieman, On studying / Therese Bigelow, On not teaching creative writing / Nancy Bond, On literary criticism / Paul Heins, On editing / Jean Karl, On publishing / Margaret K. McElderry, On awards and prizes / Ginny Moore Kruse, On being a librarian / Caroline Ward
  • Journeying / Jean Fritz
  • Between a peach and the universe / E.L. Konigsburg
  • What happened to the "all-white" world of children's books? / Rudine Sims
  • A Chinese sense of reality / Lawrence Yep
  • A common humanity / Milton Meltzer
  • And the whole earth was of one language / Marianne Carus
  • For and against rubbish / Ethel Heins, Carolyn W. Field, Frances V. Sedney
  • The impact of controversy on popularity / Isabelle Holland
  • "Go, and catch a falling star": what is a good children's book? / Ethel Heins.

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