What does the Harry Potter series have in common with our Muggle world when it comes to death and bereavement? Dr Sam Murphy explores.
Category: Public Health
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Children's literature
Courses tagged with "Children's literature"
This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course L301 Language, literature and childhood.
Category: Education & Development
In this short film researcher Professor Teresa Cremin and teacher Claire Williams explore whether an up-to-date knowledge of children's books is crucial in teaching practice.
Go on an adventure with Swallows and Amazons as you make a map and set sail for Wild Cat Island.
Category: History & The Arts
See the draft of Swallows and Amazons and hear about the children’s characters.
Category: History & The Arts
Hear about the children's books which inspired Swallows and Amazons.
Category: History & The Arts
Make your own nonsense and learn about Edward Lear’s innovative production techniques.
Category: History & The Arts
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen the sales of personalised books go up, but are they as beneficial as other children's books? Professor Natalia Kucirkova explores...
Category: Literature
There's an introduction to satire tucked inside the bear of very little brain. Eleanor Byrne takes us deeper into Hundred Acre Wood.
Category: Literature
Roald Dahl: the incredible storyteller loved by millions or a belittling bully? Find out what his character was like in this article.
Category: Literature
Why has the absence of a Quentin Blake illustration in favour of a more grown up image on a 50th birthday edition of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory caused outrage?
Category: Literature
Professor Kimberley Reynolds explores how Lewis Carroll transformed logic, literary traditions and ideas about childhood into the superbly inventive and irreverent Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Category: Literature
September 13th is author Roald Dahl's birthday. Find out more about one of the most whoopsy wiffling storytellers and learn how to start writing in our gloriumptious hub.
Category: Creative Writing
Quite a lot, as it turns out. Severine Hubscher-Davidson explores why texts need to change with the times - and why some things are better left untouched.
Category: Linguistics
With the release of the penultimate Harry Potter instalment - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Dr Mark Banks explains why the films are an ideal lens through which to view the relationships between people and society, and asks what have we learned from the story so far?
Category: Sociology