ENGL 237

Children's Literature

3.00 units · Undergraduate

Fall 2026

Topics

Children’s literature from medieval Britain to modern Britain, Canada and the United States
childhood
genre
literature’s social and cultural functions.

Demers, Patricia, ed. From Instruction to Delight: An Anthology of Children's Literature to 1850. 4th ed. Oxford UP, 2015.; Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The Secret Garden. Illustrated by Tasha Tudor, HarperCollins Canada, 2010.; Dahl, Roald. Danny, the Champion of the World. Illustrated by Quentin Blake, Puffin, 2007.; Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Illustrated by Ernest Shepard, Aladdin, 1989.; Kogawa, Joy. Naomi’s Road. Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2005.; Lowry, Lois. Number the Stars. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001.; Pearce, Philippa. Tom’s Midnight Garden. Oxford UP, 2015.; Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Warne, 2012.

Sources

Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
Official departmental HTML course page ↗Fall 2026
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