8/30: post-it notes

Picturebooks are part of my academic life this semester--yay!  I've already written here a few times about the myth and picturebooks seminar, and in an independent study (on the representation of poverty in children's literature) a student and I will be looking at picturebooks for a few weeks before we move onto other kinds of texts.  Working with picturebooks makes me grateful for post-it notes:  though I don't have a problem writing notes in other kinds of books, I really don't want to write in/on picturebooks, so as I read/look/analyze I add a post-it to each page where I record my thoughts and reactions.  It was a pleasure this morning to sit on the porch with my picturebook and post-its (and coffee).