Fairy Tales
W 8/18 Intro, housework, syllabus
F 8/20  (please print off, read, and bring to class): Anonymous, "Cap o' Rushes," Charles Perrault, "Cinderella" <http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/perrault06.html>; Grimms, "Cinderella [Aschenputtle]" < http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm021.html>
 
Fairy Tale Updates
M 8/23 Pullman, I Was a Rat!
W 8/25 Rat! Scieszka, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs (on reserve)
F 8/27 Rat! Munsch, The Paper Bag Princess (on reserve)
 
Fairy Tales/Picture Books
M 8/30 Disney, Cinderella (movie)
W 9/1 Cinderella
F 9/3 Picture books: Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
 

Required
Beverly Cleary, Ramona the Pest
Julius Lester, Tales of Uncle Remus
X J and Dorothy Kennedy, Knock at a Star 2d ed.
Katherine Paterson, The Great Gilly Hopkins
E.B. White, Charlotte's Web
Gary Paulsen, Hatchet
Andrew Clements, Frindle
Philip Pullman, I Was a Rat!
Louis Sachar, Holes,
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Mildred Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry


Optional
Beatrix Potter, Tale of Peter Rabbit (hardcover)
Molly Bang, Picture This
Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
Crocket Johnson, Harold and the Purple Crayon
Gary Soto, Chato's Kitchen
William Steig, Doctor DeSoto
Faith Ringgold, Tar Beach
Robert Munsch, The Paperbag Princess