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CIRCL Japan

CIRCL Japan is a Japanese branch of CIRCL (The Graduate Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture, Media). It was formed in summer 2005 by a group of Reading University graduates who studied on the MA in Children’s Literature. We aim to promote children’s literature criticism and cultural studies in Japan and welcome anyone who is interested in research in childhood.

As a study group, we meet regularly in Tokyo to have a discussion of text, which can be literary, critical, or theoretical.

In 2019, Yuko Ashitagawa was awarded a Distinguished Volunteer Award by the University of Reading in the UK for her efforts since 2005 on behalf of CIRCL Japan!

Our next online meeting is scheduled on 21st October 2023. We will read Chapters 1-8 of Mary Downing Hahn’s ‘Wait Till Helen Comes’.

Everyone welcome!

  • 194 27th August 2023 We read Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book in relation to Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book.
  • 193 23rd July 2023 We read Chapters 6-8 of Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book.
  • 192 25th June 2023 We read Chapters 1-5 of Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book.
  • 191 21st May 2023 We read Derek Pacheco’s ‘”Funny Queer Fits”: Masculinity and Desire in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit’ (Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, vol.46, no.3, 2021, pp.263-82).
  • 190 15th April 2023 We read Chapters 11-19 of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit.
  • 189 26th March 2023 We read Chapters 6-10 of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit.
  • 188 26th February 2023 We read Chapters 1-5 of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit.
  • 187 28th January 2023 We read Andrew O’Malley’s “Mary Norton’s ‘Borrowers’ Series and the Myth of the Paternalist Past” (Children’s Literature, vol.31, 2003, pp.71-89) and watched a part of its adaptation.
  • 2022 186 18th December 2022 We read Chapters 11-20 of Mary Norton’s The Borrowers.
  • 185 20th November 2022 We read Chapters 1-10 of Mary Norton’s The Borrowers.
  • 184 16th October 2022 We read the latter half of Alan Gratz’s Ban This Book.
  • 183 25th September 2022 We read the first half of Alan Gratz’s Ban This Book.
  • 182 20th August 2022 We read Chapters 25-36 of Frances Hardinge’s The Lie Tree.
  • 181 30th July 2022 We read Chapters 13-24 of Frances Hardinge’s The Lie Tree.
  • 180 26th June 2022 We read Chapters 1-12 of Frances Hardinge’s The Lie Tree.
  • 179 29th May 2022 We read Mizuki Watanabe’s ‘Klara and the Sun and the “Knowable Community”‘.
  • 178 24th April 2022 We read the final part of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun.
  • 177 27th March 2022 We read the middle part of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun.
  • 176 27th February 2022 We read the first part of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun.
  • 175 23rd January 2022 We read Chapters 15-29 of Geraldine McCaughrean’s The Positively Last Performance.
  • 174 25th December 2021 We read Chapters 1-14 of Geraldine McCaughrean’s The Positively Last Performance.
  • 173 28th November 2021 We discussed a film version of Earwig and the Witch and read its review.
  • 172 31st October 2021 We read Diana Wynne Jones’s Earwig and the Witch.
  • 171 26th September 2021 We read Chapters 60-85 of Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone.
  • 170 22nd August 2021 We read Chapters 31-59 of Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone.
  • 169 25th July 2021 We read Chapters 16-30 of Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone.
  • 168 27th June 2021 We read Chapters 1-15 of Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone.
  • 167 30th May 2021 We read Muhammad Al Hafizh’s ‘Resistance toward Domination of Racial Difference Ideology in Jacqueline Woodson’s Novels’ (Lingua Cultura, vol.12, no.1, 2018, pp.39-44)
  • 166 18th April 2021 We read Chapters 7-18 of Jacqueline Woodson’s Lena.
  • 165 27th March 2021 We read Chapters 1-6 of Jacqueline Woodson’s Lena.
  • 164 20th February 2021 We read Chapters 15-28 of Jacqueline Woodson’s I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This.
  • 163 24th January 2021 We read Chapters 1-14 of Jacqueline Woodson’s I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This.
  • 2020 162 20th December 2020 We read the last part of Geraldine McCaughrean’s Where the World Ends.
  • 161 15th November 2020 We read the middle part of Geraldine McCaughrean’s Where the World Ends.
  • 160 18th October 2020 We read the opening part of Geraldine McCaughrean’s Where the World Ends.
  • 159 27th September 2020 We read Chapters 25-48 of Kelly Barnhill’s The Girl Who Drank the Moon.
  • 158 30th August 2020 We read Chapters 1-24 of Kelly Barnhill’s The Girl Who Drank the Moon.
  • 157 26th July 2020 We read Jerome de Groot’s “Time, Death and Science in Alison Uttley’s A Traveller in Time” (Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 91.1, pp.45-56).
  • 156 22nd March 2020 We read Chapters 8-14 of Alison Uttley’s A Traveller in Time.
  • 155 23rd February 2020 We read Chapters 1-7 of Alison Uttley’s A Traveller in Time.
  • 154 19th January 2020 We read Chapters 14-25 of Geraldine McCaughrean’s Peter Pan in Scarlet.
  • 153 22nd December 2019 We read Chapters 1-13 of Geraldine McCaughrean’s Peter Pan in Scarlet.
  • 152 9-10 November 2019 A special trip to Yamanashi. We read Angelika Zirker’s ‘”Time No Longer”: The Context(s) of Time in Tom’s Midnight Garden‘ (Telling Children’s Stories: Narrative Theory and Children’s Literature, edited by Michael Cadden, University of Nebraska Press, 2010, pp.268-92) and discussed a film version of Tom’s Midnight Garden.
  • 151 21st September 2019 We read chapters 15-27 of Philippa Pearce’s Tom’s Midnight Garden.
  • 150 25th August 2019 We read chapters 1-14 of Philippa Pearce’s Tom’s Midnight Garden.
  • 149 28th July 2019 We read the latter half of Richard Peck’s A Year Down Yonder.
  • 148 23rd June 2019 We read the first half of Richard Peck’s A Year Down Yonder.
  • 147 12th May 2019 We read the latter half of Richard Peck’s A Long Way from Chicago.
  • 146 21st April 2019 We read the first half of Richard Peck’s A Long Way from Chicago.
  • 145 17th March 2019 We watched and discussed two films: Goodbye Christopher Robin and Christopher Robin.
  • 144 17th February 2019 We read Ruth Stiles Gannett’s My Father’s Dragon.
  • 143 19th January 2019 We read the latter half of Rebecca Stead’s When You Reach Me.
  • 142 16th December 2018 We read the first half of Rebecca Stead’s When You Reach Me.
  • 141 24-25th November 2018 as a special trip to Tottori. We read Chapters 5-8 of Michael Bond’s More about Paddington.
  • 140 28th October 2018 We watched and discussed two film versions of A Wrinkle in Time.
  • 139 16th September 2018 We read Chapters 1-3 of Michael Bond’s More about Paddington.
  • 138 25th August 2018 We read Chapters 8-12 of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time.
  • 137 29th July 2018 We read Chapters 5-7 of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time.
  • 136 16th June 2018 We read Chapters 1-4 of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time.
  • 135 27th May 2018 We watched and discussed the film version of Tales from Earthsea.
  • 134 22nd April 2018 We read Chapters 8-10 of Ursula Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea.
  • 133 25th March 2018 We read Chapters 4-7 of Ursula Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea.
  • 132 25th February 2018 We read Chapters 1-3 of Ursula Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea.
  • 131 27th January 2018 We read Part 2 of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
  • 130 9-10th December 2017 “A special trip to Shizuoka.
  • We read Part 1 of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and watched the film of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.”
  • 129 9th October 2017 We read chapters 11-20 of Ian McEwan’s Nutshell.
  • 128 27th August 2017 We read chapters 1-10 of Ian McEwan’s Nutshell.
  • 127 23rd July 2017 We read P. L. Travers’s Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane.
  • 126 25th June 2017 We read chapters 4-6 of J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens along with Jack Zipes’s ‘Introduction’ to the Penguin edition.
  • 125 28th May 2017 We read chapters 1-3 of J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.
  • 124 9th April 2017 We read chapters 10-18 of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox and discussed the film version.
  • 123 26th March 2017 We read chapters 1-9 of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox.
  • 122 26th February 2017 We read Chapters 15-28 of Lois Lowry’s Gossamer.
  • 121 11th December 2016 We read Chapters 1-14 of Lois Lowry’s Gossamer.
  • 120 29th October 2016 We read Daryl H. Hague’s “Fuzzy Memories: Why Narrators Forget They Translate for Animals” (Translation and Literature 16, pp.178-192)
  • 119 25th September 2016 We read Parts 4-6 of Hugh Lofting’s The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle.
  • 118 27th August 2016 We read Parts 1-3 of Hugh Lofting’s The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle.
  • 117 31st July 2016 We read Hugh Lofting’s The Story of Doctor Dolittle.
  • 116 24th April 2016 We read Deborah Hopkinson’s The Great Trouble.
  • 115 20th March 2016 We read Deborah Hopkinson’s The Great Trouble.
  • 114 31st January 2016 We read Linda Hall’s “The Pattern of Dead and Living: Lucy Boston and the Necessity of Continuity” (Children’s Literature in Education 29.4, pp.223-36).
  • 113 23rd December 2015 We read the latter half of L. M. Boston’s The Children of Green Knowe.
  • 112 15th November 2015 We read the first half of L. M. Boston’s The Children of Green Knowe.
  • 111 20th September 2015 We read the latter half of David Walliams’s Demon Dentist.
  • 110 11-12th July 2015 “A special trip to Shizuoka.
  • We watched and discussed the film version of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.”
  • 109 28th June 2015 We read the first half (chapters 1-18) of David Walliams’s Demon Dentist.
  • 108 17th May 2015 We watched and discussed the film version of When Marnie Was There.
  • 107 4th April 2015 We read chapters 20-37 of Joan G. Robinson’s When Marnie Was There.
  • 106 31st January 2015 We read chapters 1-19 of Joan G. Robinson’s When Marnie Was There.
  • 105 6th December 2014 We read Jenni Adams’s ‘”Into Eternity’s Certain Breadth”: Ambivalent Escapes in Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief’ (Children’s Literature in Education 41.3, pp.222-33).
  • 104 26th October 2014 We read parts 7-10 of Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief.
  • 103 28th September 2014 We read parts 4-6 of Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief.
  • 102 9th August 2014 We read parts 1-3 of Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief.
  • 101 5-6th July 2014 “A special trip to Shizuoka.
  • We watched the film of War Horse and discussed it along with the book version.”
  • 100 18th May 2014 We read chapters 12-21 of Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse.
  • 99 20th April 2014 We read chapters 1-11 of Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse.
  • 98 30th March 2014 We read Danielle Sahm’s “Contrary to Expectations: Exploring Blake’s Contraries in David Almond’s Skellig” (Children’s Literature 38, pp.115-32).
  • 97 15th February 2014 We read chapters 24-46 or David Almond’s Skellig.
  • 96 26th January 2014 We read chapters 1-23 of David Almond’s Skellig.
  • 95 22nd December 2013 We read Andrea Zarate’s “Portals, Agency and the Negotiation of Liminality in A Tale of Time Cityand Johnny and the Bomb” (International Research in Children’s Literature 4.1, pp.87-98).
  • 94 24th November 2013 We read chapters 10-17 of Diana Wynne Jones’s A Tale of Time City.
  • 93 28th September 2013 We read chapters 1-9 of Diana Wynne Jones’s A Tale of Time City.
  • 92 31st August 2013 We read the latter half of Patrick Ness’s A Monster Calls.
  • 91 21st July 2013 We read the first half of Patrick Ness’s A Monster Calls.
  • 90 23rd June 2013 We read Don K. Philpot’s ‘Children’s Metafiction, Readers, and Reading: Building Thematic Models of Narrative Comprehension’ (Children’s Literature in Education 36.2, pp.141-59).
  • 89 25th May 2013 We read chapters 3-12 of E. L. Konigsburg’s The View from Saturday.
  • 88 14th April 2013 We read chapters 1-2 of E. L. Konigsburg’s The View from Saturday.
  • 87 31st March 2013 We read Frank Cha’s ‘Migrating to the “Broiler Belt”: Japanese American Labor and the Jim Crow South in Cynthia Kadohata’s Kira-Kira‘ (The Mississippi Quarterly 65.1, pp.103-20) and Cynthia Kadohata’s ‘Newbery Medal Acceptance’ (Horn Book Magazine 81.4, pp.409-17).
  • 86 24th February 2013 We read chapters 9-16 of Cynthia Kadohata’s Kira-Kira.
  • 85 27th January 2013 We read chapters 1-8 of Cynthia Kadohata’s Kira-Kira.
  • 84 16th December 2012 We read Volume III of Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.
  • 83 25th November 2012 We read Volume II of Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.
  • 82 28th October 2012 We read Volume I of Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.
  • 81 16th September 2012 We read some excerpts from the criticism of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies.
  • 80 25th August 2012 We read chapters 7-12 of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies.
  • 79 28th July 2012 We read chapters 1-6 of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies.
  • 78 23rd June 2012 We read Anna Wilson’s “Little Lord Fauntleroy: The Darling of Mothers and the Abomination of a Generation” (American Literary History 8.2, pp.232-58).
  • 77 20th May 2012 We read chapters 6-15 of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Little Lord Fauntleroy.
  • 76 22nd April 2012 We read chapters 1-5 of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Little Lord Fauntleroy.
  • 75 31st March 2012 We read Rosamond Rosenmeier’s ‘Finding Yourself–and Someone Else’ (Dorrel Thomas Hanks, Jr.,E. L. Konigsburg. Twayne, 1992. Chapter 7).
  • 74 26th February 2012 We read chapters 9-17 of E. L. Konigsburg, Up from Jericho Tel.
  • 73 28th January 2012 We read chapters 1-8 of E. L. Konigsburg, Up from Jericho Tel.
  • 72 23rd December 2011 We read Philippa Pearce’s ’ and ‘At the River-Gates’.
  • 71 26th November 2011 We read Helen Ainslie’s ‘Perspectives and Community: Constructions of Autism and Childhood’ (Lesnik-Oberstein, ed. Children in Culture, Revisited: Further Approaches to Childhood. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. pp.90-106).
  • 70 30th October 2011 We read chapters 14-26 of Philippa Pearce’s Minnow on the Say.
  • 69 17th September 2011 We read chapters 1-13 of Philippa Pearce’s Minnow on the Say.
  • 68 27th August 2011 We read Naomi Wood’s ‘Paradise Lost and Found: Obedience, Disobedience, and Storytelling in C. S. Lewis and Philip Pullman’ (Children’s Literature in Education 32.4, pp.237-59).
  • 67 31st July 2011 We read Chapters 20-38 of Philip Pullman’s The Amber Spyglass.
  • 66 26th June 2011 We read Chapters 1-19 of Philip Pullman’s The Amber Spyglass.
  • 65 22nd May 2011 We read Oziewicz’s ‘“Let the Villains Be Soundly Killed at the End of the Book”: C. S. Lewis’s Conception of Justice in The Chronicles of Narnia’ (Amy H. Sturgis, ed. Past Watchful Dragons: Fantasy and Faith in the World of C.S. Lewis, pp.41-63).
  • 64 23rd April 2011 We read C. S. Lewis’s The Last Battle.
  • 63 27th February 2011 We read C. S. Lewis’s The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
  • 62 22nd January 2011 We read Colin Manlove’s ‘George MacDonald’s The Princess and the Goblin and The Princess and Curdie’ (North Wind 26, pp.1-36).
  • 61 26th December 2010 We read chapters 18-35 of George MacDonald’s The Princess and Curdie.
  • 60 21st November 2010 We read chapters 1-17 of George MacDonald’s The Princess and Curdie.
  • 59 19th September 2010 We read chapters 17-32 of George MacDonald’s The Princess and the Goblin.
  • 58 29th August 2010 We read chapters 1-16 of George MacDonald’s The Princess and the Goblin.
  • 57 24th July 2010 We read Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are and discussed its film version as well.
  • 56 27th June 2010 We read Janet & Allan Ahlberg’s The Jolly Postman: or Other People’s Letters.
  • 55 22nd May 2010 We read Alice Mills’s ‘Harry Potter and the Terrors of the Toilet’ (Children’s Literature in Education37.1, pp.1-13).
  • 54 25th April 2010 We read chapters 18-36 of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
  • 53 28th March 2010 We read chapters 1-18 of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
  • 52 28th February 2010 We read chapters 10-17 of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
  • 51 23rd January 2010 We read chapters 1-9 of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
  • 50 27th December 2009 We read Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol and J. Hillis Miller’s ‘The Genres of A Christmas Carol’.
  • 49 29th November 2009 We read T. H. White’s The Sword in the Stone and Hilary M. Fraser’s ‘Evolution, the Child, and the Problem of Narrative in T. H. White’s The Sword in the Stone and The Book of Merlyn’ (Gill Davies et. al., eds., Critical Essays on T. H. White, The English Writer, 1906-1964, pp.109-22).
  • 48 17th October 2009 We read chapters 13-24 of T. H. White’s The Sword in the Stone.
  • 47 27th September 2009 We read chapters 1-12 of T. H. White’s The Sword in the Stone.
  • 46 30th August 2009 Ms Catrin Edwards, PhD student at the University of Reading, spoke about psychoanalysis and children’s literature.
  • 45 25th July 2009 We read Rosemary Sutcliff’s ‘History Is People’ and Margaret Meek’s ‘The Historical Novelist: The Light and the Dark’.
  • 44 27th June 2009 We read chapters 12-21 of Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth.
  • 43 23rd May 2009 We read chapters 1-11 of Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth.
  • 42 18th April 2009 We read Joel D. Chaston’s ‘The Other Deaths in Bridge to Terabithia’ (Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 16.4, pp. 238-41) and watched the film Bridge to Terabithia.
  • 41 28th March 2009 We read Katherine Paterson’s Bridge to Terabithia.
  • 40 28th February 2009 We read Valerie Krips’s ‘Finding One’s Place in the Fantastic: Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising’ (Joe Sanders, ed. Functions of the Fantastic, pp. 169-75) and watched the filmThe Seeker: The Dark Is Rising.
  • 39 24th January 2009 We read Parts 3&4 of Susan Cooper’s Silver on the Tree.
  • 38 20th December 2008 We read Parts 1&2 of Susan Cooper’s Silver on the Tree.
  • 37 22nd November 2008 We read Part 2 of Susan Cooper’s The Grey King.
  • 36 18th October 2008 We read Part 1 of Susan Cooper’s The Grey King.
  • 35 21st September 2008 We read Susan Cooper’s Greenwitch.
  • 34 23rd August 2008 We read the latter half of Susan Cooper’s Over Sea, Under Stone.
  • 33 26th July 2008 We visited the International Library of Children’s Literature and read the first half (chapters 1-8) of Susan Cooper’s Over Sea, Under Stone.
  • 32 22nd June 2008 We read the latter half (part 3) of Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising.
  • 31 24th May 2008 We read the first half (parts 1&2) of Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising.
  • 30 26th April 2008 We read the latter half (from chapter 14 onwards) of Shannon Hale’s Princess Academy.
  • 29 23rd March 2008 We read chapters 1-13 of Shannon Hale’s Princess Academy.
  • 28 17th February 2008 We read Alan Armstrong’s Whittington, along with Andrew Lang’s ‘The History of Whittington’.
  • 27 27th January 2008 We read chapters 22-45 of Alan Armstrong’s Whittington.
  • 26 16th December 2007 We read chapters 1-21 of Alan Armstrong’s Whittington.
  • 25 24th November 2007 We read Ruth Gilbert’s ‘Watching the Detectives: Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and Kevin Brooks’ Martyn Pig’ (Children’s Literature in Education36.3, pp. 241-53).
  • 24 21st October 2007 We read the latter half (from chapter 157 onwards) of Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.
  • 23 18th August 2007 We read chapters 2-157 of Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.
  • 22 22nd July 2007 We read Rumi Harada’s ‘Excessive Power and Story of “Growth”: For Movie “Howl’s Moving Castle”’ (Journal of Niigata Seiryo University 6, pp.129-39) and discussed the film version as well.
  • 21 23rd June 2007 We read chapters 11-21 of Diana Wynne Jones’s Howl’s Moving Castle.
  • 20 27th May 2007 We read chapters 1-11 of Diana Wynne Jones’s Howl’s Moving Castle.
  • 19 28th April 2007 We read William Todd Schultz’s ‘Finding Fate’s Father: Some Life-History Influences on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ and part of Tomita Yasuko’s Roald Dahl (pp. 78-100).
  • 18 18th March 2007 We read further in Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and discussed its film versions as well.
  • 17 24th February 2007 We read the first half of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
  • 16 27th January 2007 We read Norton D. Kinghorn’s ‘The Real Miracle of Charlotte’s Web’ (CLAQ 11.1, pp. 4-9) and parts of John Griffith’s Charlotte’s Web: A Pig’s Salvation (pp. 9-15, 45-52).
  • 15 23rd December 2006 We read chapters 12-22 of E. B. White’s Charlotte’s Web.
  • 14 25th November 2006 We read chapters 1-11 of E. B. White’s Charlotte’s Web.
  • 13 22nd October 2006 We read ‘How the First Letter Was Written’ and ‘The Cat That Walked by Himself’ from Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories.
  • 12 16th September 2006 We read the first and the fourth stories (‘Please Look After This Bear’ and ‘A Shopping Expedition’) from Michael Bond’s A Bear Called Paddington.
  • 11 26th August 2006 We read the ninth chapter of Children’s Literature: New Approaches (Jacqueline Lazu, ‘National Identity. Where the Wild, Strange and Exotic Things Are: In Search of the Caribbean in Contemporary Children’s Literature’).
  • 10 22nd July 2006 We read the eighth chapter of Children’s Literature: New Approaches (Daniela Caselli, ‘Reading Intertextuality. The Natural and the Legitimate: Intertextuality in “Harry Potter”’).
  • 9 24th June 2006 We read the sixth chapter of Children’s Literature: New Approaches (Lila Marz Harper, ‘Children’s Literature, Science and Faith:The Water-Babies’).
  • 8 27th May 2006 We read the third chapter of Children’s Literature: New Approaches (Christine Sutphin, ‘Victorian Childhood. Reading Beyond the “Innocent Title”: Home Thoughts and Home Scenes’).
  • 7 23rd April 2006 We read the fourth chapter of Children’s Literature: New Approaches (J. Hillis Miller, ‘Reading. The Swiss Family Robinson as Virtual Reality’).
  • 6 25th March 2006 We read the seventh chapter of Children’s Literature: New Approaches (Stephen Thomson, ‘The Child, The Family, The Relationship. Familiar Stories: Family, Storytelling, and Ideology in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials’).
  • 5 25th February 2006 We read the tenth chapter of Children’s Literature: New Approaches (Sarah Spooner, ‘Landscapes: “Going foreign” in Arthur Ransome’s Peter Duck’).
  • 4 28th January 2006 We read the fifth chapter of  Children’s Literature: New Approaches (Neil Cocks, ‘The Implied Reader. Response and Responsibility: Theories of the Implied Reader in Children’s Literature Criticism’).
  • 3 17th December 2005 We read the second chapter of Children’s Literature: New Approaches (Sue Walsh, ‘Author and Authorship. Effigies of Effie: On Kipling’s Biographies’)
  • 2 19th November 2005 We read the first chapter of Children’s Literature: New Approaches (Karin Lesnik-Oberstein, ‘Introduction’ to: Children’s Literature: New Approaches).
  • 1 22nd October 2005 We decided to read the following book chapter by chapter: Children’s Literature: New Approaches. Edited by Karín Lesnik-Oberstein, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

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