Creating Children's Books II
ENGL 397
Spring 2021
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In this course, each student, already experienced in writing for children, will create and illustrate a children's book, at the picture book or illustrated chapter book level. Assignments include examining a variety of children's books (from 1930 to the present) and emulating specific authors and illustrative techniques as we develop original work. We will discuss both text and illustration in published picture books, and the creative assignments and workshop discussions will focus on both components, and their interaction. We will look at a range of questions: What is this book for? Who is it for? Does it appeal to children and adults in different ways? What assumptions does it make about the world of childhood and the relationships children have? How does it obscure, reveal, comment on, or attempt to change the truths of life--things like love, desire, satisfaction, hurt, difference, sickness, and death? What values or norms does it establish--or subvert? What do the words and pictures do to each other? What values or expectations are at stake as the story or pattern unfolds? We will use questions like these to help drive our experiments and revisions as we workshop all stages of our books. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (ENGL)(ENGL-Creative W) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Course Reading Materials will include the following and more books:
Aaron Shepard, THE BUSINESS OF WRITING FOR CHILDREN
Alijandra Mogilner & Tayopa Mogilner, CHILDREN'S WRITER'S WORD BOOK
Uri Shulevitz, WRITING WITH PICTURES
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Examinations and Assignments:
Weekly assignments will include reading of published books, and continuous workshopping. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Students may email Professor Bloom now to express interest in the course if they wish to. To apply for this course please go to the English Department website under Creative Writing (https://www.wesleyan.edu/english/Writing%20.html) and submit the Google form application, completing all questions on the form. The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2020.
For the Writing Certificate, the course counts as an elective.
This course contributes to the Creative Writing and Theory & Literary Forms concentration of the English major. |
| Instructor(s): Bloom,Amy B. Times: ..T.... 01:00PM-03:50PM; Location: ONLINE; |
Permission of Instructor Required
Enrollment capacity: 14 | Permission of instructor approval will be granted by the instructor during pre-registration through the Electronic Portfolio. Click "Add to My Courses" and "To request a POI electronically, click here" to submit your request. |
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