Pub Date : 2023-10-18DOI: 10.1007/s10583-023-09552-w
Massih Zekavat
Abstract This article contends that the representation of human-nature relationship in children’s literature can map onto its gender politics through a comparative study of multimodal dynamics of Irish and Persian picturebooks. It builds upon the premise that children’s literature can play a significant role in sustainable education and forming pro-environmental values in the process of socialization during childhood. Oliver Jeffers’ The Fate of Fausto: A Painted Fable (2019) and Hoda Hadadi’s I’ll Sow My Hands in the Garden (2020) are examined within the framework of environmental humanities for their verbal and pictorial depictions of the human-nature relationship. The findings convey that characters’ gender and sexual identities can impact their interactions with nature; at the same time, nature can clear a space for expressing and affirming underrepresented and historically marginalized gender and sexual identities in children’s literature through creative and dynamic multimodal interactions between the text and illustrations. A comparative analysis reveals that Jeffers challenges abstract, absolute masculinity and masculine arrogance and calls for reforming the notion of need in modern societies, while more playful and transgressive dynamics between the text and illustrations provide an effective tool for Hadadi who appropriates the poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad, a maverick female writer, to undermine the plots of male homo-sociality and erotic counterplotting with a subversive alternative to heteropatriarchy and anthropocentrism.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-18DOI: 10.1007/s10583-023-09541-z
Michelle Ann Abate
{"title":"“Where All the People are Fantastical and Magical”—and Hurting: Intergenerational Trauma and Social-Emotional Learning in Encanto","authors":"Michelle Ann Abate","doi":"10.1007/s10583-023-09541-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-023-09541-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45382,"journal":{"name":"CHILDRENS LITERATURE IN EDUCATION","volume":"75 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135884248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-18DOI: 10.1007/s10583-023-09556-6
Chengcheng You
{"title":"Towards a Genre of Cross-Species Storytelling: Exploring Slow Narratives in Naoko Awa’s Fairy Tales","authors":"Chengcheng You","doi":"10.1007/s10583-023-09556-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-023-09556-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45382,"journal":{"name":"CHILDRENS LITERATURE IN EDUCATION","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135883903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-18DOI: 10.1007/s10583-023-09549-5
Krzysztof Rybak
Abstract This article investigates selected environmental informational picturebooks in which – often in both the main text and the peritext – readers find brief descriptions of actions they can take to change their habits and save the planet. The analysis focuses on lists of tasks incorporated into books and considers whether such sections (and, potentially, whole books) invite critical engagement. This ability seems crucial in times of fake news and the need for conscious action and political engagement in climate issues. In the first part, the theoretical framework on informational picturebooks is presented, and the importance of peritextual elements is stressed, as well as the critical thinking that may be fostered by a nonfiction text, referring to Joe Sutliff Sanders’ concept of “a literature of questions” (date?). Four international picturebooks are then discussed, representing both ‘traditional’ ( Müll by Gerda Raidt and Śmieciogród by Ola Woldańska-Płocińska) and ‘new’ children’s nonfiction ( Be a Tree! by Maria Gianferrari and Felicita Sala and Greta and the Giants by Zoë Tucker and Zoe Persico). The analysis demonstrates that green informational picturebooks may be perceived as both eco-activist books and books about eco-activism as they present certain tasks and encourage the readers to take actions; hence, the term “a literature of actions” has been proposed, as these books seem to trigger little critical thinking. The reason green informational picturebooks are unlikely to foster critical engagement may be that fighting the climate crisis is crucial to ensure humanity’s future wellbeing.
{"title":"Towards A Literature of Actions: Green Informational Picturebooks and Critical Engagement with Fighting Climate Change","authors":"Krzysztof Rybak","doi":"10.1007/s10583-023-09549-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-023-09549-5","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article investigates selected environmental informational picturebooks in which – often in both the main text and the peritext – readers find brief descriptions of actions they can take to change their habits and save the planet. The analysis focuses on lists of tasks incorporated into books and considers whether such sections (and, potentially, whole books) invite critical engagement. This ability seems crucial in times of fake news and the need for conscious action and political engagement in climate issues. In the first part, the theoretical framework on informational picturebooks is presented, and the importance of peritextual elements is stressed, as well as the critical thinking that may be fostered by a nonfiction text, referring to Joe Sutliff Sanders’ concept of “a literature of questions” (date?). Four international picturebooks are then discussed, representing both ‘traditional’ ( Müll by Gerda Raidt and Śmieciogród by Ola Woldańska-Płocińska) and ‘new’ children’s nonfiction ( Be a Tree! by Maria Gianferrari and Felicita Sala and Greta and the Giants by Zoë Tucker and Zoe Persico). The analysis demonstrates that green informational picturebooks may be perceived as both eco-activist books and books about eco-activism as they present certain tasks and encourage the readers to take actions; hence, the term “a literature of actions” has been proposed, as these books seem to trigger little critical thinking. The reason green informational picturebooks are unlikely to foster critical engagement may be that fighting the climate crisis is crucial to ensure humanity’s future wellbeing.","PeriodicalId":45382,"journal":{"name":"CHILDRENS LITERATURE IN EDUCATION","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135883919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-16DOI: 10.1007/s10583-023-09551-x
Qianwei He, Xiaofei Shi
{"title":"A Revolutionary Wonderland: Layered Didacticism in Chen Bochui’s Miss Alice (1931–1932)","authors":"Qianwei He, Xiaofei Shi","doi":"10.1007/s10583-023-09551-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-023-09551-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45382,"journal":{"name":"CHILDRENS LITERATURE IN EDUCATION","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136114306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-15DOI: 10.1007/s10583-023-09554-8
Gareth Osborne
{"title":"Correction to: Agency and Intra-textual co-creation in Punchdrunk Enrichment’s Immersive Story Worlds for Children","authors":"Gareth Osborne","doi":"10.1007/s10583-023-09554-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-023-09554-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45382,"journal":{"name":"CHILDRENS LITERATURE IN EDUCATION","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135436708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-02DOI: 10.1007/s10583-023-09544-w
Íris Susana Pires Pereira, M. Gil, Clecio Bunzen
{"title":"Wordless Picturebooks as Resources for the Construction of the Pedagogy of Multiliteracies. The Case of Migrants, by Issa Watanabe","authors":"Íris Susana Pires Pereira, M. Gil, Clecio Bunzen","doi":"10.1007/s10583-023-09544-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-023-09544-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45382,"journal":{"name":"CHILDRENS LITERATURE IN EDUCATION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46829352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-30DOI: 10.1007/s10583-023-09548-6
Dawn Heinecken
{"title":"“I Can Tell You Have ‘Special Understanding’”: Young Science Fiction Readers and Alexander Key’s The Forgotten Door","authors":"Dawn Heinecken","doi":"10.1007/s10583-023-09548-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-023-09548-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45382,"journal":{"name":"CHILDRENS LITERATURE IN EDUCATION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47609692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1007/s10583-023-09539-7
Xuemei Chen, Ge Song
{"title":"Gender Representation in Translation: Examining the Reshaping of a Female Child’s Image in the English Translation of the Children’s Novel Bronze and Sunflower","authors":"Xuemei Chen, Ge Song","doi":"10.1007/s10583-023-09539-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-023-09539-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45382,"journal":{"name":"CHILDRENS LITERATURE IN EDUCATION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46230051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1007/s10583-023-09537-9
Alison Bedford, Annette Brömdal, Martin Kerby, M. Baguley
{"title":"Just How Radical Is Radical: Children’s Picture Books and Trans Youth","authors":"Alison Bedford, Annette Brömdal, Martin Kerby, M. Baguley","doi":"10.1007/s10583-023-09537-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-023-09537-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45382,"journal":{"name":"CHILDRENS LITERATURE IN EDUCATION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42107536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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