An emphasis on diversity is one of the greatest challenges in my teaching. Everyone, myself included, enters the course with a set of expectations for human behavior, and literature can be very disruptive of these expectations. International literature, for example, often disrupts the narrative expectations of readers who were trained by stories from Disney and Hollywood to expect neat, happy endings, as well as introducing themes in literature that can make many pre-service teachers quake as they consider what's "appropriate" for their future classrooms. The resulting conversations surrounding the literature are both exciting and sometimes disturbing, but ultimately enriching for those of us engaged in an intense and exciting study of literature for children.