I knew from my junior year of high school that I wanted to be an elementary school teacher someday. When I reflect back to my earlier years as a student, my favorite subject in school was always reading and writing. I’ve always loved reading and writing stories and even essays. I am thinking that I would like to teach something along the lines of this. One of the literary periods that has caught my attention is Romanticism. After reading a little bit about it I have learned that if focuses on art, literature and even music in Western Civilization. When it comes to children’s books, Romanticism authors and poets thought that children had a unique view of the world. Children are innocent and do not yet understand how society really works. Realism is another literary period that I wanted to look into in a little more depth as well. When I was looking around to find out more I saw that it said realism tends to “reject imaginative idealization”. I don’t think this period would be something I am interested in teaching because I think imagination and creativity is very important and should be emphasized to elementary school students. One of the authors I have been looking at is Beatrix Potter. (She wrote the Tale of Peter Rabbit.) I want to look at some of the other books she has written because that is a classic and well known book and I would assume she has others as well. If I were a teacher I would like helpful resources to find good books for my students, like a website where other teachers post books that could be helpful to specific subjects. I think the internet is always a great place to look and is such easy access for educators as well.