RETURN TO UNM - Gallup Children's Literature Syllabus, Fall 2003

UNM - GALLUP

CIMTE 443 CHILDREN'S LITERATURE CLASS COLLECTION

FALL 2003

"I Resign!!! I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult. I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of an 8 year old again. I want to go to McDonald's and think that it's a four star restaurant. I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make a sidewalk with rocks. I want think M&Ms are better than money because you can eat them. I want to lie under a big oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summer's day. I want to return to a time when life was simple; When all you knew were colors, multiplication tables, and nursery rhymes, but that didn't bother you, because you didn't know what you know and you didn't care. All you knew was to be happy because you were blissfully unaware of all the things that should mske you worried or upset. I want to think the world is fair. That everyone is honest and good. I want to believe that anything is possible. I want to be oblivious to the complexities of life and be overly excited by the little things again. I want to live simple again. I don't want my day to consist of computer crashes, mountains of paperwork, depressing news, how to survive more days in a month than there is money in the bank, doctor bills, gossip, illness, and loss of loved ones. I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth, justice, peace, dreams, the imagination, mankind, and making angels in the snow. So...here's my checkbook, and my car-keys, my credit card bills, and my 401K statements. I am officially resigning from adulthood. And if you want to discuss this further, you'll have to catch me first, cause...... "Tag! You're it." -Anonymous

TINA K. GASPER

I am curently working toward a Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education with an Edorsement in Language Arts. My goal is to someday become a Second or Fouth Grade Elementary Teacher. I have enjoyed this Children's Literature Class so much because it has allowed me be to do what I enjoy doing the most-which is reading books of all sorts. I truly believe that reading allows us to learn about the world around us.

Favorite Book

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

Favorite Author

Eric Carle

Favorite Illustrator

Eric Carle

Favorite Children's Literature Resources

A World Of Reading-Where Kids and Books Come Together

Children and Young Adult Authors and Illustrators

PBS Kids

ALA Book Picks 2003

Censorship

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