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First Book Group of Michaelmas 2016

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3rd Cambridge Symposium on Cognitive Approaches to Children’s Literature

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We're excited to announce another virtual Open Research Seminar for Easter Term! Wednesday May 27 at 17.00 - 18.30 BST we will be pleased to welcome Peter C. Kunze, who will be presenting his talk "Why Belle Loves Books: Industrial Approaches to Studying Children's Culture". A visiting assistant professor in film studies at Eckerd College, Prof. Kunze will be discussing the complexity of authorship in Disney's Beauty and the Beast in order to demonstrate how an awareness of media industry practices and operations can enrich the study of literary culture. Those wishing to join us are invited to email CRCLC Director Professor Karen Coats for the Meeting ID and Password. #childrensliterature #yalit #bellelovesbooks #childrensculture #research #seminar #crclc #universityofcambridge

It’s Wednesday (just a little reminder for those of us that need it 😜) and what better way to get some inspiration for this week’s reading than hearing from one of our former MPhil students @jodie.rose.7 “Currently reading: A few proofs from my new job as a Bookseller at Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights! A mix of magical wishes, self-aware AI and beastly creatures. What more could you ask for?” Sounds perfect to us! 📚 what are you reading? #childrensliterature #yalit #picturebook #crclc #whatareyoureading #bookstagram #shelfie #universityofcambridge

Yesterday we held our Open Research Seminar with with Prof. Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak! Thank you to Justyna for sharing your research to us and thank you to the 30+ participants who joined us from the UK, Ireland, the US, China, Saudi Arabia, and Hong Kong! #childrensliterature #posthuman #nature #crclc #OpenResearchSeminar #research #universityofcambridge

Our Open Research Seminars are back up and running online for Easter Term! We are excited to announce the details of this week's seminar on Wednesday 6th May at 5pm (GMT) with Professor Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak: "Two Years Later: Developing a Relational Researcher Subjectivity in Children’s Literature Studies". In her talk, Prof. Deszcz-Tryhubczak will explore the implications of posthumanist thought for the subjectivity of a children’s literature scholar wishing to apply new materialist frameworks to her research with, and not just about, children and texts. Those wishing to join us are invited to email CRCLC Director Professor Karen Coats for the Meeting ID and Password. Looking forward to seeing you all there! For more information visit our Facebook page (link in our bio) #childrensliterature #yalit #picturebooks #crclc #research #researchseminar #universityofcambridge #newterm #onlinelearning

Getting ready for the weekend and today @madisonmcnuage shares her tbr choices! “These aren’t exactly recommendations as I haven’t read all of them yet but they’re all part of my fantasy London-based corpus. I can’t wait to dig in to these new (second hand but new to me!) novels! Anyone else have a huge stack of books waiting to be read? However, this time is difficult for everyone and being an international student far away from my family and living alone I’ve found this time difficult too. But as always fantasy novels are my happy place so I’m re-reading all off Tamora Pierce’s novels for fun at the moment. Returning to her novels and her fantasy worlds feels like coming home to me. What do you re-read for comfort?” 📚📚 what are you reading? #childrensliterature #yalit #picturebooks #manga #graphicnovel #crclc #bookstagram #shelfie #universityofcambridge

It’s Friday and today’s reading recommendation comes from @hunterleine and gorgeous 📷 by @anguswhitby “For my #quarantreads I’m re-reading Bill Willingham's Fables Series (2002-2015). The one series I had shipped from my collection back in Australia (except for Jack of Fables; I’m not having that), what starts as a story about fairy-tale characters exiled from their homelands to a secret neighbourhood in New York city quickly expands into a sweeping epic that combines an exploration of the power of myth and of archetypes with meta-referential humour; Willingham weaves an expansive intertextual web that extends that ensnares characters from the realms of fantasy, horror, adventure, and of course the whole length and breadth of children’s literature. There are multiple entry points for the series that I’ve included – you could start at the beginning with the March of the Wooden Soldiers Arc, spread across volumes 1-4; or you could start with 1001 Nights of Snowfall – a standalone volume filled with stunning art set before the events of the main story arc and which sees Snow White attempt to talk her way out of marriage to a sultan by spinning him a tale or two; or you could follow the adventures of the series’ female characters (and its prettier male characters) in the Fairest Spin-off Series, itself an outgrowth of the two earlier Cinderella standalone adventures; or you can dive in at random with some of my favourite volumes!” 📚📚 What are you reading? #yalit #childrensliterature #graphicnovel #picturebooks #manga #crclc #bookstagram #whatareyoureading #universityofcambridge

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