Session Details

Sunday, 28 December

365. Children’s Literature and War

3:30–4:45 p.m., Golden Gate 1, Hilton

Program arranged by the Division on Children’s Literature

Presiding: Karin E. Westman, Kansas State Univ.

1. “Momotaro; or, the Peach Boy: Japan’s Best-Loved Folktale as National Allegory,” David Henry, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2. “The Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima: Whose Story Is It?” Reade W. Dornan, Michigan State Univ.

3. “‘An Entrance to Nowhere’: Children’s Understandings of War in Susan Cooper’s Fiction,” Lee A. Talley, Rowan Univ.

4. “Ghosts, Gremlins, and Fantasy in Children’s Blitz Fiction,” Kristine Anne Miller, Utah State Univ.

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