The Early Reader in Children's Literature and Culture: Theorizing Books for Beginning Readers

ISBN-13: 9781138547636 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 246 str.

Jennifer Miskec; Annette Wannamaker

Opis

This book considers Early Readers – books written and designed for children just beginning to read independently. Using approaches from education, child psychology, sociology, cultural studies, and children’s literature, it examines Early Readers as teaching tools; as cultural artifacts that shape cultural and individual subjectivity; as mass-marketed products; and as aesthetic objects. Essays explore how Early Readers contribute to the construction of younger children as readers, thinkers, consumers, and as gendered, raced, classed subjects. They address children’s texts that have been translated and sold around the globe as part of an increasingly transnational children’s media culture.

Spis treści

Early, Easy, First, Beginner, Chapter: An Introduction Annette Wannamaker and Jennifer Miskec Part 1: History 1. From The New England Primer to The Cat in the Hat: Big Steps in the Growth and Development of Early Readers Ramona Caponegro 2. The Boxcar Children and The Box-Car Children: The Rewriting of Gertrude Chandler Warner’s Classic and the Origins of the Early Reader Michelle Ann Abate 3. Creating and Marketing Early Reader Picture Books Rebekah Fitzsimmons Part 2: Aesthetics and Form 4. The End?: Approaches to Closure in Early Readers Karen Coats 5. Reading Reading in the Early Reader: Mindset, Emotion, and Power Gretchen Papazian 6. Redefining the Early Reader in an Era of Multiliteracies: Visual Language of Mo Willems’ Elephant and Piggie Series Daniel Hade and Laura Anne Hudock 7. Babymouse in Space: Locating the Reader, Text, Character, and Brand Annette Wannamaker Part 3: Culture 8. "I think these chapters are not real": In a Dark, Dark Room and the Horrors of Early Reading Katharine Slater 9. "Just think—How many girls have special powers like you?": Weird Girls and the Normalizing of Deviance in Early Readers Michelle Beissel Heath 10. Free-Ranging Childhood and Saving the Earth in the Marty McGuire and Ivy and Bean Early Reader Series Helen Bittel 11 Alvin Ho: Not Allergic to Playing Indian, Feathers, and Other Stereotypical Things Sarah Park Dahlen Part 4: Global Contexts 12. The World is Flat, Stanley: Globalization, Ethnocentricity, and Absurdity Anne W. Anderson and Rebecca L. Powell 13. Playing with Language, Food, and Pictures: Ideology and Cultural Adaptations in the Translation of the Captain Underpants Series into the Spanish Language Teresa Asiain 14: "Watch your language, Andy," said Terry. "There might be children reading"; or Early Readers the Australian Way Erica Hateley 15. Anna Hibiscus and No. 1 Car Spotter: Africa in Early Readers Jennifer Miskec