A Brief List of Lecture Series on Geniuses (The Stories Behind Classic British and American Children’s Books of the 20th Century)

 
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[Brief Intro­duc­tion] This book rough­ly uses the char­ac­ters that appear in “Dear Genius: The Let­ters of Ursu­la Nord­strom” as clues to tell the sto­ries behind some clas­sic works in the British and Amer­i­can chil­dren’s book world in the 20th cen­tu­ry; it talks about both the works and the char­ac­ters, but focus­es more on the lat­ter, espe­cial­ly the growth expe­ri­ence of each genius, reveal­ing the unusu­al men­tal jour­ney behind suc­cess, and nat­u­ral­ly there are also var­i­ous gos­sip sto­ries, in order to under­stand her works more deeply and from more diverse per­spec­tives.
 
  The series of lec­tures con­sists of eight lec­tures, each last­ing approx­i­mate­ly 3 hours.

【Char­ac­ters and Books】
*Key fig­ures and rep­re­sen­ta­tive works dis­cussed (sort­ed by birth year):
Beat­rix Pot­ter (1866)
The Tale of Peter Rab­bit
Lau­ra Ingalls Wilder (1867)
“Prairie Cab­in” Series
Janet Sper­ling Lowry (1892)
The Slow­est Pup­py in the World
Mar­garet Leigh and H.A. Leigh (1906/1898)
Curi­ous George series
E.B. White (1899)
Stu­art Lit­tle, Char­lot­te’s Web, and The Trum­pet of the Swan
Eva Le Golian (1899)
(Actor, trans­la­tor, writer)
Jen­ny D. Lindquist (1899)
(Book review­er, writer)
Ruth Krauss (1901)
Car­rot Seeds
Isaac Bashe­vis Singer (1903)
Sto­ries for Chil­dren
Crock­ett John­son (1906)
Arrow series
Mein­dert Dejong (1906)
Wheels on the School Roof
William Stark (1907)
Don­key Turns to Stone, Shrek the Mon­sters
Clement Hurd (1908)
Good­night Moon and The Run­away Bun­ny
Fred Ben­jamin Gib­son (1908)
Old Yel­low Dog
Kay Thomp­son (1909) “Lit­tle Ai” series
Mar­garet Wise Brown (1910)
Good­night Moon, The Run­away Bun­ny, The Impor­tant Book
Ursu­la Nord­strom (1910)
(edit)
Leo Lion­ni (1910)
Lit­tle Blue and Lit­tle Yel­low, Field Mouse Alfred, Lit­tle Black Fish
Vir­ginia Hav­i­land (1911)
(Librar­i­an)
Gus Williams (1912)
Black Rab­bit and White Rab­bit
Robert McCloskey (1914)
Make Way for the Duck­lings and Morn­ing by the Sea
Mar­co Simon (1915) What a Won­der­ful Tree
Char­lotte Zoro­tov (1915)
Where Did the Wind Go?
Ezra Jack Keates (1916)
Snowy Day, Peter’s Chair
Roald Dahl (1916)
The Witch­es, Matil­da
Mar­garet Broy Gra­ham (1920)
Har­ry the Dirty Dog
ME Kerr (1927)
Dinky Hawke Shots!
Louise Fitzhugh (1928)
Har­ri­et the Spy
Mau­rice Sendak (1928)
Where the Wild Things Are, In That Far­away Place, Dear Xiaoli
Eric Car­le (1929)
The Very Hun­gry Cater­pil­lar
Shel Sil­ver­stein (1930)
The Giv­ing Tree, The Miss­ing Cor­ner, and The Light in the Attic
Mary Rogers (1931)
Freaky Fri­day
Tom­my Unger­er (1931)
The Three Rob­bers, Crick­et Tow­er, and Mr. Moon
Quentin Blake (1932)
Lit­tle Mon­sters, illus­tra­tions of Dahl’s works
Arno Lobel (1933)
“Frog and Toad” series
Susan Carl Hirschman (1933)
 (edit)
William Pene­lope du Bois (1933)
William’s Doll
Antho­ny Brown (1946)
“Goril­la”, “Voic­es in the Park”, “Willy” series
Peter Siss (1949)
Star Mes­sen­ger, Made­line­ka
John Step­toe (1950)
Steve
Kevin Han­ks (1960)
“Kit­ten Chas­ing the Moon” “My Name is Chrisann Meimei Daisy”
Mo Willems (1968)
“Pigeon” series, “Gunash Rab­bit” series
…

Rec­om­mend­ed Read­ing: Read as many works as pos­si­ble by the above cre­ators; Dear Genius: The Let­ters of Ursu­la Nord­strom;Also attached is the pref­ace to the forth­com­ing book “Sto­ries of Genius­es” (ten­ta­tive draft)..