I expected ETL402 to be very practical, thinking it would give me insight into how to purchase a range of books for a school library. It has done that (McEwen, 2020, December 28) and more. It has made me think about how I can increase…
Module 5 about multi-literacies was a bit of an eye-opener for me. I’ve had a general impression that kids are reading books less as they get older. Indeed, I’ve seen this in my own home as my older children have been allowed more access to…
When I was a child I loved the Little House on the Prairie, (Wilder, 1963) book series. My mother read the series aloud to us children, I reread them myself several times through my adolescent years, devoured the TV series alongside my friends and siblings and…
We were asked in Module 2 to conduct a personal stocktake of our knowledge of children’s literature. I am thankful that I can say I had a childhood immersed in quality literature. To be honest, reading was less my thing and more of my mum’s….