About the Children's Literature Program at SDSU




Images from Janell Cannon's Stellaluna. Reprinted with permission from Harcourt Publishers.

Course Descriptions Future Courses Spring 2010 Fall 2009 Spring 2009 Fall 2008 Spring 2008 Fall 2007 Spring 2007 Fall 2006 Spring 2006 Fall 2005 Spring 2005 Fall 2004 Spring 2004 Fall 2003 Spring 2003 Class Schedule General Catalog Graduate Bulletin				Course Descriptions Spring 2009 Graduate Courses ENGL 606. Tricksters and Iconoclasts in 20th-Century Children’s Poetry. Prof. Joseph Thomas. Course would feature such authors as Shel Silverstein, Dr. Seuss, Maurice Sendak, John Ciardi, Theodore Roethke, and Gertrude Stein. We would be reading Theory by Lee Edelman (No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive), Leslie Fiedler (Freaks: Myths and Images of the Secret Self), Lewis Hyde (Trickster Makes This World), among others.

Course Descriptions