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The Art of Family Reading: Adapting Mary Shelley's ‘The Mortal Immortal’ (1833) Into a Graphic Novel
ABSTRACT The popularity of children's graphic novels reflects a rising interest in multimodal literature, and the academic benefits of reading graphic novels have been widely documented. However, little research exists on the possibilities afforded by creating graphic novels.
Susan Civale, Rachael Stone
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Picturebooks (albums pour la jeunesse) first achieve an identity as media in their own right in the 19th century. Thanks to authors from different European countries and from the United States, the early 20th century brings about a transition from ...
Luca Ganzerla
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Children's Inalienable Literacy Education Rights and the Science of Reading
The graphical abstract includes an image of a tree rooted in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child; this fruitful tree represents rights‐affirming literacy education. 15 literacy education rights (elaborated in the article) are listed as dimensions of rights‐affirming education.
Maren S. Aukerman +2 more
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Cuteness and aggression in military picturebooks
As a subspecies of ideologically loaded picturebooks, this chapter focuses on military picturebooks. This term encompasses picturebooks dealing with war and the roles of soldiers.
Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer +1 more
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Child Time and Plant Time: Eco-critical Readings of the Lapses of Time and the Relationship between Plants and Children in Two Picturebooks This article examines the unsynchronized and synchronized lapses of time, in terms of “child time” and “plant ...
Emelie Moberg, Anna Westberg Broström
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Color as A Narrative Device in Illustration: A Systematic Review
Color in picture book illustration operates simultaneously as a representational code, cognitive scaffold, and affective cue supporting theories such as Dual Coding and multimodal discourse while revealing gaps in methodology and cross‐cultural research.
Lidia Jiménez‐Duarte +2 more
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Materiality, Metafiction and “The Reality of Fantasy”in Contemporary Picturebooks
According to many scholars, picturebooks are artefacts that deserve not only to be read but also cherished. Artists and publishers nowadays experiment more and more with book architecture in order to attract consumers.
Rosy-Triantafyllia Angelaki
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Typographic Design in Māori-English Bilingual Picturebooks: Some Educational Implications
The first article discusses typographic design in Māori-English bilingual picturebooks; and considers the relevance of the book design for the revitalization of Indigenous languages.
Nicholas Vanderschantz +2 more
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Teaching Reading as a Complex and Multidimensional Process
ABSTRACT This article examines the teaching of reading as a complex and multidimensional process amidst current approaches to teaching reading forwarded by new legislation and curricula that have been adopted across the United States. We underscore the importance of a comprehensive understanding of the teaching of early reading by bringing together ...
Faythe Beauchemin +3 more
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Intercultural mediation through picturebooks
Picturebooks are good resources for intercultural mediation with children given their multimodality and topic range related to contemporary living. When carefully selected, picturebooks may help children reflect on the multicultural world they live in ...
Margarida Morgado
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