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Picturebooks as stimuli for philosophical inquiry into death

open access: yesJournal of Philosophy in Schools
This article investigates the role of picturebooks in facilitating children’s philosophical thinking about death. It challenges the protective silence and Piagetian frameworks that frequently exclude children from existential discourse.
Ping Su
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Yes, Charlotte Died: Using Picturebooks to Talk about, Not Avoid, the Topic of Death

open access: yesThe Reading Teacher, Volume 78, Issue 3, Page 156-164, November/December 2024.
Abstract This article focuses on the difficult event of death. The audience for this article is classroom teachers, librarians/media specialists, curriculum developers, and so on. The purpose is to share points to consider when choosing quality picture books focusing on death as well as exemplars to represent these points.
Lisa Parker   +2 more
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Playing with Picturebooks : Postmodernism and the Postmodernesque

open access: yes, 2012
Postmodernism has played a significant part in the development of playful and experimental picturebooks for children over the past 50 years. Playing with Picturebooks offers fresh insights into the continuing influence of postmodernism on picturebooks ...
Allan, Cherie
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Power to children’s imaginations. May ’68 and counter culture for children in France

open access: yesStrenae, 2018
“Why am I talking to you about May ’68?”, asked the children’s publisher Arthur Hubschmid at a conference in 2005, “well, it changed things for us radically, that’s why”.
Sophie Heywood
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Combining Social–Emotional Learning Competencies and Contemporary Concerns Picturebooks to Foster Early Literacy Practices: An Interdisciplinary Approach

open access: yesThe Reading Teacher, Volume 78, Issue 3, Page 165-176, November/December 2024.
Abstract There is value in integrating social–emotional learning with academic development as a way to support children's abilities to effectively communicate ideas, collaboratively solve problems, and strengthen early literacy practices. In this article, we discuss suggestions for using picturebook read‐alouds as stepping stones for integrating social–
Amanda Deliman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Green Ship: Reading Through Branches and Waves. Growing Outdoors with Contemporary Children’s Picturebooks

open access: yesEncyclopaideia, 2018
The strong relationship between children and nature is represented in many children’s picturebooks published in Italy in the last decades. In the array of picturebooks and wordless books the relationship between detail and the big picture is also ...
Marcella Terrusi
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Cross Continental Readings of Visual Narratives: An analysis of Six Books in the New Zealand PictureBook Collection [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
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
Daly, Nicola, Cotton, Penni
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"Jag fick en ny nalle. Jag fick ett nytt land"

open access: yesTidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap, 2016
”I got a new teddybear. I got a new country”: Depictions of Escape from War in Swedish Picturebooks, 2014–2016 This article analyzes 17 picturebooks depicting escape from war, all of which were published in Sweden between 2014 and 2016.
Åsa Warnqvist
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Towards an analaysis of the utilisation of metafictive strategies in postmodern picturebooks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper notes the ways in which conventional texts often construct limited reading positions and/or points of view. It argues that through the use of postmodern picturebooks and an understanding of metafictive strategies (as one aspect of a more ...
Allan, Cherie
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The Visual, the Verbal, and the Very Young: A Metacognitive Approach to Picturebooks

open access: yesActa Didactica Norge, 2018
The article draws on recent research into emergent literacy and metacognition, and charts a developmental trajectory from early concept books to picturebooks aimed at children and young teenagers.
Björn Sundmark
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