1st Edition
Children as Readers in Children's Literature The power of texts and the importance of reading
Part One: Reading for life: How do books shape the readers we become? 1. "Everybody knew that books were dangerous": Cognitive and affective responses to representation of books and reading Maria Nikolajeva 2. Taken as Read: Readers in Books and the Importance of Reading, 1744-2003 Peter Hunt 3. All for Love: The relationship between love-stories and reading as a cultural activity Kim Reynolds Part Two: Reading and its consequences: How dangerous is reading? 4. Spellbinding Books in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction Maureen Farrell 5. Of Readers and Vermin: The consequences of literacy for ‘parasites’ Evelyn Arizpe 6. The Forbidden Word: Readers in dystopia Vivienne Smith 7. Reading as Protection and Enlightenment in Marcus Zusak’s The Book Thief Jean Webb Part Three: Reading in new ways: Who’s in control? 8. ‘What Else Can This Book Do?’ Picturebooks as stage sets for acts of reading Mary Anne Wolpert and Morag Styles 9. Reading fictions and lessons in meaning-making in the digital age Sylvia Warnecke 10. Readers’ perceptions of a writer: Jacqueline Wilson’s persona and her relationship with her readers Julia Eccleshare 11. "This is my show!" Beyond reading to envisioning and enacting Shirley Brice Heath
Biography
Evelyn Arizpe is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Education, University of Glasgow, UK.
Vivienne Smith is Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Strathclyde, UK.
"Children as Readers delivers first reaserch results and prepares the ground for further inverstigation of the changing reader."— Stefanie Lange, Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature
