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Online Space Creators  

• PBWorks - free wiki builder (excellent for group projects)
• Webs - free website builder
• Weebly - free website builder 
• Wordpress - free blog site 

Media Tools 

• YouTube
• Screen-Cast-O-Matic - free recording software  

Online Resources for Primary Material and Context:

Children's Literature 

• Virginia Reader's Choice
• Children's Literature Association: http://www.childrensliteratureassembly.org/course-syllabi.html 
• "Losing Count: Eeny Meeny Miny Mo": https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/04/16/losing-count/  
• Notable Children's Books 2018 by the ALA: http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/notalists/ncb   

• Best Children's Books Story 
• Banned Books that Shaped America  

• Read Aloud Resources:

• Storytime Anytime 

Fairy Tales

• SurLaLune Fairy Tales Website
• Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales Website 
• Grimms' Fairy Tales Website
• Kinder und Hausmärchen 
• Perrault's Fairy Tales
• Contes de Perrault  
• Folklinks Website (see DL Ashlimen's website for further resources)
• Young Adult Retellings 

Beauty and the Beast (ATU 425)

• Beastly. Alex Flinn.
• Beauty. Robin McKinnley 

Cinderella (ATU 510A)

• Alcott, Louisa May. A Modern Cinderella. 
• The Korean Cinderella 
• Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter 
• Multicultural Cinderella Stories by the ALA 

Snow White (ATU 709) 

Rapunzel (ATU 310)

Reading Outside the English Class

• Ebooks from NASA for students
• Making Sense of Dollars and Cents: Books about Money 
• Best STEM books for educators K-12 
• 15 STEM books that Make Science and Technology Fun for Kids 
• Girls Who Code 

Associations:

International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts 

American Folklore Society

TREE - Teacher Resources for WV

Resources for Multicultural and Ethnic Children's Literature

• How to Choose the Best Multicultural Children's Books 
• Asian American Literary Awards 
• Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature 
• Pura Belpré Award: ALA Latin American Children's Books
• Latino Book Awards 
• The Coretta Scott King Book Awards: ALA African-American Book Awards
• National Book Award: African-American Winners 
• Women's Literary Awards and Prizes 
• Multicultural Cinderella Stories 

Criticism and Scholarship (Secondary Source Material): 

• Critical Literacy: Critical literacy is the ability to read texts in an active, reflective manner in order to better understand power, inequality, and injustice in human relationships. For the purposes of critical literacy, text is defined as a “vehicle through which individuals communicate with one another using the codes and conventions of society” - Heather Coffey 
• Defining Critical Literacy 
• History and Theory of Critical Literacy 
• Critical Theory: Bringing Theory to Praxis 
• Marvels and Tales
• Marvels and Tales can be accessed through PROJECT MUSE on the ARTICLE DATABASES on the WSU Library Cite.
• The European Folktale: Form and Nature. Max Lüthi. 
• Once Upon A Time: On the Nature of Fairy Tales. Max Lüthi.
• Luthi_Fairytale.pdf  
• Luthi_OnceUponTime.pdf  
• Fairy Tales and Feminism: New Approaches 
• Fairy Tales and Society: Illusion, Allusion, and Paradigm. Ruth Bottigheimer, ed.  
• Developmental fairy tales: evolutionary thinking and modern Chinese culture. Andrew F. Jones. 
• Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale. Catherine Orenstein. 
• Morphology of Folklore, Vladimir Propp 
• Purdue Owl's Explanations of Literary Theories  
• Postmodern Fairy Tale: Gender and Narrative Strategies 
• The Influence of Illustrations on Children's Book Preferences and Comprehension 
• Picture This: Visual Literacy as a Pathway to Character Understanding

• "Bringing Cultures into the Classroom" 
• "Motivating Students is Easy when Food is the Topic" 
• MultiracialExperiencesinLiteratureforChildren.pdf  

Cinderella (ATU 510)

• Cinderella: A Folklore Casebook. Alan Dundes, ed.
• The Cinderella Complex. Colette Dowling.  

Beauty and the Beast (ATU 425)

• Beauty and the Beast: Visions and Revisions of An Old Tale. Betsy Hearne.
• The Metamorphosis of Apelius: Cupid and Psyche, Beauty and the Beast….  
• Warner_Beast_Blonde.pdf  

Snow White  

Red Riding Hood

• Little Red Riding Hood for All Ages. Sandra Beckett. 

Other Fairy Tale Resources:

The Great Caldron of Story - Maria Tatar

Breezes from Wonderland - Maria Tatar blog

Visual Thinking

Visual Thinking - Center for Teaching Vanderbilt University

The Rhetoric of Visual Thinking