A Democracy of Children’s Literature Critics? The Opportunities and Risks of Paying Attention to Open Reviews and Mass Discussion [PDF]
Drawing on the outputs of a wider democracy of online reviewers presents the academic study of children’s literature with opportunities and challenges, and can enhance critical discussion.
Attar, Dena
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Allowing Space for Undecidability: Complex Picturebooks in Literary Education Previous research on children’s literature calls attention to picturebooks as a challenging art form, containing complex themes and sophisticated literary qualities ...
Heidi Höglund, Katrina Åkerholm
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Cross Continental Readings of Visual Narratives: An analysis of Six Books in the New Zealand PictureBook Collection [PDF]
This article argues that, by analyzing the ways in which illustrators use certain visual codes, we can learn much about a country's history/culture and demonstrates this by analyzing the visual narratives of six picture books from the New Zealand Picture
Cotton, Penni, Daly, Nicola
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Theme: Motherhood and Mothering. Ill. ©Stina Wirsén When Mothers Become Animals: Transformed Mothers in Two Scandinavian Picturebooks for Children This article examines the animal nature of the mother figures in the two Scandinavian ...
Inger-Kristin Larsen Vie +1 more
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Dora, une série pour les parents ?
Dora the Explorer’s picturebooks are part of a vast multi-media production whose design, inspired by video games, is based on the notion of interactivity ; this notion is discussed here to the extent that it is confused with the response to stimuli and ...
Francis Marcoin
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Representations of diversity in the revised New Zealand PictureBook Collection [PDF]
Collections of children’s literature are used for a range of reasons including preservation, record keeping, and more recently the encouragement of intercultural understanding.
Daly, Nicola
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Examining the effect of a picturebook reading intervention on younger school age children with different reading skills and vividness of visual imagery [PDF]
This study examines the effectiveness of an intervention program designed to enhance the comprehension and interpretation of verbal-visual narratives, commonly known as picturebooks, among younger school-age pupils.
Veronika Čigarská
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Narration und Materialität im Bilderbuch
In this contribution, I pursue the question in which way the materiality of the picturebook contributes to the development of the story. To this end, I carry out two case studies on narrative picturebooks for children from the age of 2.
Rita FINKBEINER
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Enabling identity: The challenge of presenting the silenced voices of repressed groups in philosophic communities of inquiry [PDF]
This article seeks to contribute to the challenge of presenting the silenced voices of excluded groups in society by means of a philosophic community of inquiry composed primarily of children and young adults.
Kizel, Arie
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Developing Students' Interpretive Repertoires
As readers encounter visual images, design elements in addition to the written language incorporated into contemporary picturebooks, the repertoire of strategies students need to draw upon must expand to deal with the aspects of these texts beyond ...
Frank Serafini
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