Session Details

Tuesday, 28 December

300. Children’s Literature and the Left

7:15–8:30 p.m., 202-B, Convention Center

Program arranged by the Division on Children’s Literature

Presiding: Philip W. Nel, Kansas State Univ.

1. “Righteous Little Reds: Children’s Literature and the Idealized Soviet Child,” Julia Mickenberg, Univ. of Texas, Austin

2. “Leaning Left: Progressive Politics in Sydney Taylor’s All-of-a-Kind Family Series,” June S. Cummins, San Diego State Univ.

3. “Eighteenth-Century Nonsense Literature and the American Revolution,” Kevin Shortsleeve, Univ. of Oxford, Keble Coll.

Program Archive