UPDATE

Jen,
First off, I was so excited to start this class because I LOVE children's literature. I am known to stay home and read picture books and watch Disney movies on weekends. I think I own every single Disney movie and most of the Dr. Seuss books. My mom and dad read to me all the time so I love going back to the books I remember as a child and rereading them and figuring out why I liked them so much.

I had no idea that I could analyze picture books the way we do in class. I loved the presentation from the librarian about "how to" look at picture books with a critical eye and choose the best ones for your class. I really remember the different ways to look at picture books besides just reading them. The whole book really does tell a story from cover to cover. I think that this would be a great lesson for my class some day. The kids can find different ways that picture books are interesting and figure out why they like the books that they like. Speaking of my future class, I think that this class is really important. I loved the genera studies because I didn't even know that some of these books were out there. I'm glad that we got a list of tons of good books that we can use in our classrooms.

Overall, I really enjoy blogging. I like the fact that we can personalize our blogs and really make them our own. As students, we have to write word documents all the time and they become routine. I think that blogging is much more personal and I can write how I really feel about the book. I also like the fact that we can read eachothers blogs. I always look on other people's blogs to see which books are good ones.