Reading, Writing and Illustrating Children's Literature

A Sense of Wonder
Reading, Writing and Illustrating Children's Literature
University of Otago Centre for the Book
Thursday 12 November Dunningham Suite, Dunedin Public Libraries
19:00–21:00	Ms. Julia Marshall	TBC
	(followed by informal reception)
Friday 13 November, Tower Block Lecture Theatre, University of Otago College of Education
Lecture Room open from 8:00 for registration, setting up presentations, or just socialising
9:00-9:15	Trish Brooking, University of Otago	Welcome and Introduction
Children's Literature and Trauma  Chair: Trish Brooking
9:15–9:35	Cecily Fisher	Shock Absorbers in Transit: The unique potential of fiction picture books to help young children cope with traumatic circumstances
9:35-9:55	Sarah Mokrzycki	Foster Care and the Representation of Trauma in Children's Literature
9:55–10:15	Raymond Huber	The Universe Is Made of Stories: Narrative Non-Fiction
10:15–10:30		Discussion
10:30–11:10	Morning Coffee

Fantasy in Children's Literature  Chair: Donald kerr
11:10–11:30	Paul Tankard	The Fantastic Turn: Or, how two old-fashioned Oxford Dons are shaping 21st-century Children’s Fiction
11:30–11:50	Hannah Parry	“Child of the Kindly West”: A children's book hero in Tolkien's Middle-Earth
11:50-12:10	David Elliot	The Agony of Hunting the Snark
12:10–12:30	Elizabeth Hale	“Jabberwocky” and the Interpretive Power of Illustration
12:30–12:50		Discussion
12:50–1:30	Lunch
Children's Literature in the Modern World  Chair: Julia Marshall
1:30–1:50	Nicola Daly	The New Zealand PictureBook Collection: Transmitting children’s literature titles through children’s literature collections
1:50–2:10	Anne Goulding	I Want to Tell You a Digital Story
2:10-2:30	Sarah-Jane Robertson	The Hungry Caterpillar Becomes a Butterfly: Exploring the role of book genre in children’s language and literacy development
2:30–2:50	Sally-Ann Spencer	Translating Children’s Books With AmazonCrossing
2:50–3:10		Discussion
3:10–3:40	Afternoon Tea
Children's Literature in History  Chair: Shef Rogers
3:40–4:00	Geoff Kelly	The Evolution of the Chapbook: From secular amusement to evangelical literature
4:00–4:20	Mary Skarott	Special Prize for Gardening: School and Sunday School Prizes in New Zealand during World War I—Examples from the Dorothy Neal White Collection
4:20–4:40	Kay Hancock	Exploring Didacticism in the 1963 Ready to Read Instructional Reading Series
4:40–5:00	Elaine Webster	Why is goodness blonde?
5:00–5:20		Discussion
5:20–5:30	Phillippa Duffy and  Bronwyn Wylie-Gibb from University Book Shop	Closing remarks
Adjourn to the University Staff Club for a 'vin d'honneur' and further conviviality