When you compare your views about literature written for children and young adults before this course began to what you are thinking now...

I was definitely a bit narrow minded about the concepts of children and adult literature until now. I always thought of children's book as being these easy to read fantasies that were literally only for children. I never thought of being able to apply them to my own life because I never thought that there was any depth to them. Adult literature to me was, in my world, a book that used words to abstract to understand with no meaning. All of this has changed for me. The more I have been reading the more I realize my ignorance. Children's books are so applicable to our lives today and our lives in the past. Sometimes I see the fantasy stories as a metaphor for bits and pieces in my life. I truly enjoy reading them now. I feel that being exposed to several different styles of children's literature has also helped me to see the readings in a new way. I feel that this experience will help me to choose books wisely now, not just based off of the cover, that goes for adult and children lit.