Challenging Picturebooks and Inclusion Promoting Educational Equity Through Visual Literacy

Introduction: Theoretical Approaches to Inclusive Learning with Challenging Picturebooks
Åse Marie Ommundsen, Daniel Feldman, and Björn Sundmark

Part I. Othering and Inclusion

2. Towards a Typology of Fat in Picturebooks: A Fat Reading of the Emergence of Body-Positive Representation
Mia Österlund and Åsa Warnqvist

3. The Challenge of Inclusiveness: Exploring Death in Two Challenging Picturebooks
Åse Marie Ommundsen and Gunnar Haaland

4. Collaborative Writing to Fight Stigmas: Coping with Leukemia via Nine Fearless Friends
Ilgım Veryeri Alaca and Burcu Agrali

5. Carriers of Challenging History: Contemporary Picturebooks about the Holodomor
Mateusz Świetlicki

6. The Tattooed Text: Challenging Orientalism in Barbara Hodgson’s The Tattooed Map
Colin Haines

Part II. Challenging Aesthetics

7. (Re)constructing Books: Materiality as a Narrative Component in Brazilian Pop-up, Accordion, and Poster Picturebooks
Diana Navas

8. “Honey, I deleted the kids!” Inclusive Portuguese Picturebooks for Adults
Ana Margarida Ramos

9. Finding One’s Place in Time: Challenges and Kinships in Just nu har vi varandra
Emma Tornborg

10. Inclusive Iconography in Shaun Tan’s The Arrival
Daniel Feldman

11. Inclusive Design and the Children’s Museum: Picturebooks in Museum Education
Naomi Hamer

Part III. Accessing Affect

12. War Stories in the Classroom: Children Reading and Narrating the War in Ukraine
Aliona Yarova and Björn Sundmark

13. “And There Is No Right or Wrong”: Expanding a Wordless Picturebook into Classroom Assemblage
Chrysogonus Siddha Malilang and Robert Walldén

14. Intergenerational Alliances in a Co-authored Picturebook: Experiences, Challenges and Inclusive Aspects in Dear Diary
Nina Christensen and Ayoe Quist Henkel

15. Bedtime Negotiations: Play and Participation in Bedtime for Bo
Eivind Karlsson

16. Rethinking Reading Spaces for Inclusion: Neuroarchitecture and the Booktruck Project
Margarida Castellano

Biography

Åse Marie Ommundsen is Professor of Scandinavian Literature at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. She specialises in cognitively and emotionally complex picturebooks and their role in literacy development. An internationally recognised scholar and frequent keynote speaker, she has edited several volumes including Exploring Challenging Picturebooks in Education (Routledge, 2021).

Daniel Feldman is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, focusing on Holocaust and children’s literature. His work appears in major journals and is supported by grants from the Children’s Literature Association and the Israel Science Foundation.

Björn Sundmark is Professor of English Literature at Malmö University, Sweden, and a leading scholar in children’s literature. A former editor of Bookbird, he serves on the jury for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.