Welcome to my blog. I created it (with a little help) for the course I teach at the University of Iowa. I'm hoping that it can become a place where I can share my musings about topics related to the teaching, writing, and enjoyment of children's literature; it will also be a hub for my student's blogs on related topics. On a side note, this blog draws its title from a phrase used to denote the uncharted waters of medieval maps. I pictured this like our journey into new territory with children's literature and media. After all, children's books are pretty odd if you think about it. A book written by adults--though often from a child's point of view--for an audience of children. Unfortunately, moments after the "Here Be Dragons" was suggested, a little research accidentally debunked what seems to be a really cool myth. Indeed these maps never seems to exist in the form that I imagined them. Wow, this title just keeps getting better...The quote under the title comes from Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are," a book that I loved as a child, and now love to read with children. Maurice Sendak is amazing and really funny, if you've never listened to him check out this interview on NPR. Also, in case you're a fan (or soon become one) of this book, you'll want to check out these amazing stills of this soon-to-be film from Spike Jonze.
So here it is. A little blogging experiment in my own class. I'm tremendously excited.
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