Book list

[Shaun Hately]

My apologies to anybody who sees this more than once - I'm asking it 
quite widely.

As many people reading this will know I am currently studying to be a 

teacher - I'm in the third year of my fourth year course. I am coming 

under increasing pressure to specialise as a literacy teacher (I am 
also coming under pressure to specialise as a numeracy or science 
teacher, but in those cases, it's mostly just because relatively 
primary school teachers have specialist skills in those areas, and I 
really don't want to do them, just because I'm good at them - the 
literacy interests me most). Specialising in one way or another 
greatly increases my chances of working specifically in gifted 
education (especially as I have so far achieved First Class Honours 
in all the gifted related subjects).

Anyway - to my point. As part of my goal of possible eventual 
literacy specialisation, I have started collecting children's books 
across a range of areas. I've spent the last few days cataloguing my 
'teaching collection' of children's books and I have put up a list 
at:

http://www.alphalink.com.au/~drednort/bookindex.html

I hope my eventual collection will be much larger than this - but 
it's already reasonably sizeable. It consists mostly of fiction, with 

some non-fiction and not every book on the list is actually 
technically a children's book - it also includes some books I think 
at least some children would enjoy reading, even if they are 
technically for adults.

I would like to ask as many people as possible to please look over 
this list and if you can think of a book that you think should be on 
it, that isn't, please let me know. If there's a book from your own 
childhood, you think really should be available to children now, 
*please* let me know about it. If there's a book you would want your 
child exposed to, *please* let me know about it. If there's a book 
you think every teacher should have available to give to children to 
read, *please* let me know.

I still have a year and a half to collect these books before I'm 
actually teaching.


Yours Without Wax, Dreadnought
Shaun Hately | www.alphalink.com.au/~drednort/thelab.html
(ISTJ)       | drednort at alphalink.com.au | ICQ: 6898200 
"You know the very powerful and the very stupid have one
thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the 
facts. They alter the facts to fit the views. Which can be 
uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that 
need altering." The Doctor - Doctor Who: The Face of Evil
Where am I: Frankston, Victoria, Australia