Children's Literature Course: How Books Made Our Childhoods Magical

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.