Scott O'Dell (1898-1989)
ERIC Resources

Welcome to the Internet School Library Media Center Scott O'Dell ERIC Resources page. For information on the author, see Scott O'Dell Teacher Resource File. For more information on these abstracts, search AskERIC directly. 3/14/03

Blair-Broeker, Lynn. "The Years Alone: A Reading Comprehension Unit (7-9)."

ED239213. 1980. Comprehensive unit on "loneliness." Includes Island of the Blue Dolphins

Johnson, Walter H. "A Stepping Stone to Melville." in English Journal v73, n4, p69 Apr 1984.

States that reading The Island of the Blue Dolphins can increase high school students' comprehension and appreciation of Herman Melville's The Encantadas as both works are fictional treatments of the same historic event.

Jones, Darolyn Lyn. "Six Week Slavery Novel Unit."

Unit based on Gary Paulsen's Nightjohn and O'Dell's My Name Is Not Angelica

McLean-Balderston, Suzie. "Being Young in Early California." in Social Education v50 n4, p268-70 Apr-May 1986.

Describes the use of O'Dell's two novels, Island of the Blue Dolphins and Zia to enhance the study of local history.

Nodelman, Perry. "A Second Look: 'Sing Down the Moon'" in Horn Book Magazine v60, n1, p94-98 Feb 1984.

Reexamines Scott O'Dell's novel based on the "Long Walk" of the Navajo Indians.

O'Dell, Scott. "The Tribulations of a Trilogy." in Horn Book Magazine v58, n2, p137-44 Apr 1982.

O'Dell discusses the difficulty in writing the third book of a trilogy.

Salle, Ellen. "Ethnicity and Authenticity, or How Black (Hispanic, Native American, etc.) Do I Gotta Be?" in Emergency Librarian, v22, n2, p22-27 Nov-Dec 1994.

Considers authenticity of the works of children's and juvenile authors who write about cultures or sexes other than their own.

Schon, Isabel. "A Master Storyteller and his Distortions of Pre-Columbian and Hispanic Cultures." in Journal of Reading, v29, n4, p322-25 Jan 1986.

Discusses how O'Dell's books that deal with pre-Columbian Hispanic cultures reveal his limited views of those cultures and his use of stereotypes.

Shachter, Jaqueline. "Themes and Values in Selected Children's Literature."

ED173866. 1979. Suggests stimulating value discussions with middler schoolers using books such as Island of the Blue Dolphins

Stewig, John Warren. "A Literary and Linguistic Analysis of Scott O'Dell's 'The Captive.'"

ED200993. 1981.

Tarr, C. Anita. "An Unintentional System of Gaps: A Phenomenological Reading of Scott O'Dell's 'Island of the Blue Dolphins.'"Children's Literature in Education, v28, n2, p61_71, Jun 1997.

Discusses stereotyping of the character Karana.

Townsend, John Rowe. "A Sense of Story: Essays on Contemporary Writers for Children."

ED058230. 1971. Critical essays on 19 contemporary English-language writers, including Scott O'Dell.

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