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Week 1

Animal Minds and What's in Them

Through our Eyes only

1. Self awareness in animals

2. (Mis)Representing animals

Week 2

Fables

Aesop's Fables -

- read 5-10 fables of your choice and present 3 in class.

John Gay' (1685 - 1732) Fables - just 2 pages

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913) - Fantastic Fables - a selection of just 6 pages.

James Thurber (1894-1961)- American columnist and cartoonist - 6 modern fables illustrated by Thurber himself.

Week 3

Animal legends

Original stories inspired by well-known animal legends.

Rudyard Kipling - Just So Stories

Doubleday 1912 original edition

- beautifully illustrated with colour vignettes (13 MB).

Doubleday 1912, mostly black and white - - (4 MB) lower quality, text cannot be selected

Pessnsylvania State U 2003 electronic edition - - small file (just 0.9 MB), selectable text, good for screen reading.

How the Whale Got His Throat (10-minute animation)

How the leopard got his spots (10-minute animation)

How the Rhino got his Skin (9-minute animation)

How the Kangoroo got his Legs (4-minute video)

Week 4

The creation of the animal books for the little ones

Beatrix Potter - The Tale of Peter Rabbit

"Beatrix Potter - Who Wrote That"

- autobiography of Beatrix Potter, the author of "Tale of Peter Rabbit"

Beatrix Potter - The Tale of Peter Rabbit - - beautiful highh quality edition with Potter's original watercolour illustrations.

Beatrix Potter - The Tale of Peter Rabbit - an abbreviated educational version (24 pages)

The World of Beatrix Potter - website

Webpage on at Womens Children's Book Illustrators

Week 5

Animal books for the little ones (2)

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame -

Read the first 3 chapters (some 30 pages) and take notes on the characterization of the animal protagonists !
Then look on the internet for illustrations that best fit your mental image of 3 or 4 such heroes and save them / print them out.

The Wind in the Willows - first American edition, Scribner, 1913. Nicely illustrated. (14 MB)

The Wind in the Willows - good for printing out - - double page on A4 (formatted by AO) (1.4 MB).

The Wind in the Willows - Feedbooks.org - - good for reading on computer screen (0.7 MB)

The Wind in the Willows - LIT format for Microsoft reader (download reader) - - best for small screen, eReader or smartphone (0.3 MB).

Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne

A description of each of the characters in Winnie the Pooh, from P-P-Piglet to Roo, complete with size, likes and dislikes.
A summary of the episodes (scroll to the storylines).
A Winnie-the-Pooh alphabet and a map of the 100-Aker Wood.

On the Just Pooh website

read three complete stories from the series:
Pooh Goes Visiting,
Tigges Comes to the Forest and
Tiggers Don't Climb Trees
plus a graphic presentation of the little heroes.