CDS reserves the right to make changes to the required material list as received by the instructor before the course starts.  Please refer to the Campus Bookstore website at http://www.campusbookstore.com/Textbooks/SearchEngine/  to obtain the most up-to-date list of required materials for this course before purchasing them. 

Course Notes

Students will obtain their lesson notes and assignments from the course Moodle site beginning the first day of term.

Required Texts (to be confirmed)

Texts may be ordered online from Queen's Campus Bookstore:

Anthology

• Demers, Patricia, ed. From Instruction to Delight: An Anthology of Children's Literature to 1850. 3rd ed. Oxford UP, 2008.

Individual Texts

A complete list of the books used for this follows, the specific books selected from this list for the current term can be verified on the Campus Bookstore text search.

• Barrie, J.M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, and Peter and Wendy. 1906. Oxford World's Classic, 2008.
• Bunyan, John. Pilgrim's Progress. 1678. Oxford World Classics, 2003.
• Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The Secret Garden. 1911. HarperCollins Canada, 1987.
• Dahl, Roald. Danny, the Champion of the World. 1975. Penguin, 1998.(reissued 2007) 
• Hoban, Russell. The Mouse and His Child. 1967. Scholastic, 2001.
• Lewis, C.S. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. 1950. HarperTrophy, 1978.
• MacDonald, George. The Princess and the Goblin. 1872. Puffin, 1996.
• Milne, A.A. Winnie-the-Pooh. 1926. Puffin, 2006.
• Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck. 1908. Warne, 2002.
• Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Peter Rabbit. 1902. Warne, 2002.
• Pullman, Philip. The Golden Compass. 1995. Yearling, 2001.
• Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. 1997. Rainforest Books, 2000.
• Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit. 1937. HarperCollins, 1999.
• Wilde, Oscar. The Happy Prince and other Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde. Dover Publications Inc., 2001.

* Other editions of the texts are acceptable, although you may find it difficult to identify specific passages referenced in the course notes. The one exception is the anthology From Instruction to Delight. Many of the works required for this course are not available in the first edition of the book, so you are strongly discouraged from using it. There are some discrepancies between the second edition of 2004 and the third edition of 2008 recommended for this section of the course, but page numbers for both of these editions have been provided in the course notes, so either is acceptable. The Oxford edition of J.M. Barrie's work includes two novels: Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and Peter and Wendy. Only the latter of these two is required for this course, and it is available in other editions sometimes simply entitled Peter Pan. You should also be aware that the 2002 edition of The Tale of Peter Rabbit features several illustrations which had not been included in editions of the tale published after 1903.

Page references are provided for both the 2001 Dover edition of The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales recommended for this course, and for the 1990 Signet Classic edition of Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde published by the New American Library (1990). Both of these volumes are inexpensive, and either would be fine for the purposes of this course.

Recommended Text

• Hacker, Diana. A Canadian Writer's Reference. 4th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2009.

The form and content of your writing are inextricably entwined, and as you may expect in an English course of this level, your grade is dependent on the richness and originality of your ideas, the acuity of your critical analysis of the subject texts, and the clarity and precision of your language. Students in this course are strongly encouraged to procure a writing handbook or style guide such as A Canadian Writer's Reference (either the third edition of 2004, the fourth edition of 2007, or even better , the fourth edition with the Modern Language Association [MLA] updates of 2009). Like other level-200 courses offered by the Department of English, the course requires that all assignments conform with the MLA format for academic essays and source citation, so if you are not very familiar with these you should secure access to a writing handbook or similar reliable resource to ensure that your essays satisfy departmental requirements.

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