I am a self-proclaimed, nerd, dork, geek, and child at heart. I have always loved reading picture books and young adult novels, watching cartoons, and playing games. When I graduated high school and decided to pursue a degree in English the leisure time I used to spend gallivanting around Hogwarts with Harry and picking blueberries with Sal seemed to evaporate. Too many years went by where I was immersed in the glorious writings of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Shakespeare, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, C.S. Lewis and other many other greats that I neglected my childhood friends and their new counterparts. It was not until the fall semester of my senior year that I took Children’s Literature due to scheduling conflicts, but when I did I knew that I had been missing out. My final undergraduate semester led me to library school, where after months of indecision I was finally pushed on to the path of children’s and young adult services. Now that I found myself back in the world that I belong I realized I had been out of touch and almost clueless as to what children and young adults were reading. This realization led me to take materials classes and design a literature intensive independent study. I had a mission; it was to be made aware of a variety of children’s and young adult materials through extensive reading and reflection. As my program of study comes to a close, the question is, did I succeed?
As you read the following consisting of reviews, summaries, analyses, and my general observations and thoughts about tons of children's and young adult materials, you can help me answer my question.
*Please note, this open web blog is an adaptation of blogs maintained through Blackboard, or the closed course website used for classes, which is why the posting dates are so recent and similar.
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